Is Innovation Only About Technology?

This couple of days at the 2025 Technology Summit International by IAFC in Irving, TX, I noticed a recurring theme: every presenter approached innovation as a technological process. New tools, systems, and platforms were highlighted as the engines of progress. Sure, technology summit. Yet as I listened, I found myself asking myself: Is innovation only about technology? What if innovation also lives in the non-technical spaces — in how we think, organize, and solve problems? Conceptual thinking, for example, can be just as transformative as a new piece of software. In fact, some of the most enduring innovations in history were not gadgets but ideas: democracy as a system of governance or the scientific method as a way of inquiry. So perhaps innovation should be understood as a spectrum: technical advances on one end, conceptual breakthroughs on the other, both necessary for resilience and growth. What do you think? Can innovation be equally powerful when it comes from ideas, frameworks, or ways of thinking — not just from technology? Do you see innovation as more than technology? Where else have you seen it spark change?