Front End of Innovation USA Sessions
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9:00 AM
Ends: 12:00 PM
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Forecasting and Managing the Economic Value of Innovation: Best Practices for Achieving Superior Revenues and Profits
David Matheson, PhD, President and CEO/Founder, Smartorg Inc. You need great ideas. And you need exciting, innovative new products. But innovation alone is not enough. You... |
Monday Morning Half Day Workshops | Log in | |
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9:00 AM
Ends: 12:00 PM
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Changing the Organization's DNA for faster and more profitable innovation
Greg Stevens, President, Winovations, Inc We've found it's far more profitable to teach naturally creative people business discipline, than to teach naturally disciplined peo... |
Monday Morning Half Day Workshops | Log in | |
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9:00 AM
Ends: 9:45 AM
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Opening Remarks and Establishing Participant Questions Regarding Open Innovation
Symposium Co-chairs: Kevin Schwartz, Director, PRTM & Christina Hepner Brodie, Lead Principal, PRTM Opening Up Mindset/Changing the Culture |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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9:00 AM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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All You Ever Wanted to Know About The Front End of Innovation
Trailed last year, this well-attended workshop has returned and, by popular request, been made a full day event. Innovation is not new - it is the very essence of human develop... |
Full Day Workshop | Log in | |
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9:30 AM
Ends: 10:30 AM
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Keynote: What Does Green Business Mean?
Jeffrey Hollender, President and Chief Inspired Protagonist, Seventh Generation The presentation will focus on the impact of big business on the environment and how the corpo... |
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Symposium | Log in | |
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9:45 AM
Ends: 10:30 AM
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Raising your game: Building on traditional product competencies with open innovation
Dr. Andrew G. Gilicinksi; Director, Technology Brokerage and Innovation, The Clorox Company Open innovation is a powerful concept and a rich theoretical area of study, but is... |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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11:00 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Opening Up Boundaries - New Ventures: Working with Venture Capital to Fuel Open Innovation
A pivotal open innovation resource many companies struggle to take advantage is the Venture Capital (VC) community. This can be a rich testing ground and source of insight for ... |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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11:00 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Financing to help you innovate in the sustainable industries marketplace: Sustainability and innovation are mutually compatible ideas
Peter Liu, Founder and Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank, the nation's first green commercial bank Peter will explain how sustainable businesses are turning traditional busine... |
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Symposium | Log in | |
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11:45 AM
Ends: 12:30 PM
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Building Strategic Alliances to Open Up Innovation
Kevin McFarthing, Ph.D., Global Director for Strategic Alliances and External Relations, Reckitt Benckisser Many large companies have not been as alliance aware as they could... |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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11:45 AM
Ends: 12:30 PM
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Making Sustainabilty Sustainable in the Corporatoin
Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas BT, a leading global ICT company, has won many industry accolades for its business integrated approach to sus... |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Best of the Best: Top Quarterlife Practices in the Front End
Peter A. Koen, Associate Professor, Director of Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship, Stevens Institute of Technology Under the auspices of IRI and funds from both the N... |
Monday Afternoon Half Day Workshops | Log in | |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Using Customer Value to Maximize Return on Your Innovation Dollars
Sheila Mello, Managing Partner and Wayne Mackey, Principle, Product Development Consulting Learn how to help your company maximize the return on its innovation and engineerin... |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Harnessing Business Model Innovation for Transforming Growth
Mark W. Johnson, Chairman/Co-Founder, Innosight LLC Managers are increasingly emphasizing Business Model Innovation as a new form of innovation ti deploy for future growth, y... |
Monday Afternoon Half Day Workshops | Log in | |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 2:30 PM
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It's not only the product...Opening up Packaging Innovation
Dave Behringer, Associated Director, Strategy and External Innovation, Global Packaging, Kraft Foods Kraft focuses not only on innovation of product but also innovation in pa... |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 2:30 PM
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Incubating Innovation: Aligning an Innovation Portfolio with Macro Business Trends/Needs
Dan Futter, Executive Director, Business and Technology Incubator, Dow Corning Dan will discuss major global market trends and the need for companies to align their innovatio... |
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Symposium | Log in | |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:15 PM
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Opening Up Practices and Capabilities: Strategic IP Management: A Critical Requirement For Open Innovation
Ronald Myrick, Partner, Rinnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner - a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in intellectual property One of the biggest areas of change ... |
Opening Innovation Symposium: How Does It Play Out in the Front End? | Log in | |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:30 PM
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Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Symposium | Log in | |
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3:30 PM
Ends: 4:15 PM
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Openin Up the Eco-System: When the Prodcut is a Customer Experience: Addresssing an Eco-System
Julie Wrazel, Stratgic Alliance Manager, Inkjet Systems, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett Packard Company Hewlett Packard's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), in order to b... |
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4:00 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Sustainability at Staples/Values that move us
Mark Buckley, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Staples Inc Companies can derive direct and indirect value through innovation and sustainable business practices and we w... |
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5:15 PM
Ends: 7:00 PM
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Opening Night Keynote: The Second City Improv Team
Creativity and innovation doesn't just "strike" out of the clear blue sky. It takes a conscious effort each day to create an environment where ideas can thrive. At The Second ... |
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