Nurses must engage in cross-disciplinary activities and demonstrate informatics competencies to bring fresh perspectives to clinical practice. Speakers emphasized the need to provide nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills to understand and implement innovation in their practice. The group discussed the impact of a snow day on work-from-home productivity and exchanged ideas on providing CE credits for webinars. Emphasized the need for collaboration between nursing, engineering, and analytics in nursing education and the poor development of understanding and support for innovation and entrepreneurship in professional programs. Explored connections and ideas needed in higher education to better prepare graduates for the workforce.