CALL FOR PRESENTERS:

Front End of Innovation USA

Call: 646-895-7335 or email jfiner@iirusa.com by October 15, 2008.

Co-Produced by the Product Development and Management Association & The Institute for International Research (IIR), we are currently seeking presenters for:

Front End of Innovation 2009

Confirmed 2009 Keynote: Jim Collins, Management Educator and Author of

Good to Great & co-author Built to Last

Due to the high volume of submissions, we suggest you submit your proposal early and no later then October 15, 2008 to Jennifer Finer, Senior Conference Producer. To submit your proposal please email jfiner@iirusa.com or call 646-895-7335.

Who are we looking for?

Specific topics include:

• Achieving New Growth Through Adjacencies

• Breaking Through in a Mature Market

• Business Model Innovation to Create New Value

• Innovating Services in a Product Company

• Experience Design

• Applying breakthroughs across multiple products

• The Latest in Lead User Methodologies

• Making Green Profitable - What are consumers willing to pay for?

• Technology Scouting

• Service Innovation and Design

• Co-Development Best Practices

• Building external networks and how they impact early stage innovation

• Integrating Open Innovation with an organization (including Metrics and Measures)

• The Venture Capital Community as a Source for Innovation

• Ideation Processes - Generating Breakthrough Ideas

• Leveraging Online Consumer Communities to identify white space

• Developing Platforms

• Defining and Measuring Innovation

• Subsistence Market Innovation

• Managing and Fueling the Pipeline in Global R&D Units

• What are the implications of Globalization in the Front End?

• Aligning Long-term Corporate Strategy with Short Term corporate goals

• Using Internal Social Networking to Drive Innovation

• Developing an Agile Culture

• KM - The Brain Drain and working with the new generation workforce

• Creating an Entrepreneurial Spirit

• Personal Metrics Risks, experiments and rewards

• Workplace design

• Integrating Design more holistically within the innovation process and the Front End

• IT heavy NPD

• Web 3.0 - how do you work this way through the world?

Speakers receive FREE admission to the conference as well as any pre-conference activity such as workshops or symposium.

Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities:

If you are interested in sponsorship or exhibit opportunities please contact: Susan Cook, Senior Business Development Manager at scook@iirusa.com or 646-895-7469.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS:

For consideration, please e-mail jfiner@iirusa.com with the following information by October 15, 2008:

• Proposed speaker name(s), job title(s), and company name(s)

• Contact information including address, telephone and e-mail

• Please indicate which topic you plan to address. (If it is a workshop please indicate how you plan to create an interactive session).

• Title and objective of presentation

• Summary of the the talk

• What the audience will gain from your presentation (please list 3-5 key "take-aways")

• Previous conference presentations

• Short Bio