Speaker Line-Up

2010 SPEAKING FACULTY

Keynotes & Featured Speakers

Speaker James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki
Author,
The Wisdom of Crowds		Speaker Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille
Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille
President and CEO,
Archetype Discoveries
Worldwide		Speaker Teresa M. Amabile
Teresa M. Amabile
Author & Professor,
Harvard Business School		Speaker Robin Chase
Robin Chase
Founding CEO,
Zipcar, and GoLoco
Speaker Vijay Govindarajan
Vij ay Govindarajan
Founding Director,
Tuck’s Center For Global Leadership		Speaker Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson
Author, The Invention of Air and
The Ghost Map, Creator, hyperlocal
media site Outside.in

Speaker Jebb Bruggman
Jeb Brugmann
Author, Welcome To The Urban
Revolution & Founding Partner, The Next Practice &  Faculty Member,
University Of Cambridge
Program For Sustainability Leadership

Speaker Lisa Su
Lisa Su
Senior Vice President / General Manager, Networking and
Multimedia Group,
Freescale Semiconductor
Speaker Tom LaForge
Tom LaForge
Global Director of Human
and Cultural Insights,
Coca-Cola		Speaker Matt Calman
Matt Calman
Senior Vice President, Research
& Development Executive
Bank of America, Center for Future
Banking, MIT Media Lab		Speaker Joey Fitts
Joey Fitts
Co-Author,
Drive Business Performance:
Enabling A Culture Of Intelligent Execution 		Speaker Dr. Sophie Vandebroek
Dr. Sophie Vandebroek
CTO, Xerox & President,
Xerox Innovation Group
Speaker William Setlif
William W. Setlif
Vice President, Marketing,
Target		Speaker Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison
Packaging and Innovation Director,
Diageo		Speaker Eric Wilkinson
Eric Wilkinson
Head of Product Development,
Cambridge Consultants		Speaker Bert Jacobs
Bert Jacobs
Co-Founder &
Chief Executive “Optimist,”
Life is Good

Additional Innovators and Collaborators Confirmed to Date:

  • Abram Walton, PhD, Professor of Business and Innovation
  • Alan Rosen, Senior Business Strategist, Pitney Bowes
  • Alastair MacGregor, Chief Executive, Innovia Technology Ltd
  • Angela Vargo, Manager of Product Development, Southwest Airlines
  • Anne Orban, Innovation Leader, Innovation Focus
  • Arthur E. (Ned) Uber III, Ph.D., MEDRAD Fellow Medrad
  • Bill Prenovitz, Product Management, Philips Home Healthcare
  • Blaine Childress, Research Scientist, Open Innovation, Sealed Air Corporation
  • Dr. Brian Glassman,   Ph.D in Innovation Management / International Journal of Innovation Science
  • Candace S. Matthews, CMO, Amway
  • Charles Warren, Manager, Mobile User Experience, Google, Inc.
  • Chris Colson, VP New Product Innovation, Equifax
  • Chris Thoen, Director Innovation & Knowledge Management, P&G
  • Christina Brodie, Lead Principal, PRTM
  • Communispace - Speakers TBA
  • Dennis Dalton, Managing Director, Windham Partners
  • Donna Wydra, Senior Vice President, Socratic Technologies
  • Doug Dietz, Industrial designer / Global Design, GE Healthcare
  • Elizabeth J. Altman, Vice President of Business Development, Motorola’s Mobile Devices
  • Emil Georgiev, Design research / Global Design, GE Healthcare
  • Emmanuel Laroche Vice President, Marketing Services & Sensory Consumer Science NA
  • Eric Longman, Marketing Manager / Global Marketing Organization, GE Healthcare
  • Erik Kemper, Interaction & User Centered Designer / Global Design, GE Healthcare
  • Fabrizio De Pasquale, Knowledge Network Coach, Siemen
  • Faith Taylor, Corporate Vice President Sustainability and Innovation, Wyndham Worldwide
  • Gail Martino, Ph.D., Manager, Emerging and Disruptive Innovation, Open Innovation Group, Unilever
  • Garfield Bowen, Manager Reservoir Optimization and Technology Advisor, Schlumberger
  • Geoff Waite, Vice President, Sagentia
  • Geoff Zoeckler ,Product Development Scientist, Birds Eye Foods
  • Graham Mott, Director IP and Technology Scouting , Philips Consumer Lifestyle
  • Greg Piche, Social Media Architect, Clorox Services Company
  • Imaginatik - Speakers TBA
  • J. Douglas Bate, Managing Partner, The Visterra Group
  • Jacqueline LeSage Krause, Vice President Innovation & Corporate Venture Capital, The Hartford
  • Jamie Divine, Senior Visual Designer, Google, Inc.
  • Jeff Bellairs, Sr. Director Open Innovation, General Mills
  • Jeff Pierce, Senior Principal Engineer, Pitney Bowes
  • Jim Block, Director Advanced Development & Technology, Diebold Incorporated
  • Jim Richard, Design for Six Sigma Manager, Becton Dickinson
  • Joetta Gobell, Advanced Planning & Strategy, Nissan North America
  • Joey Fitts, Co-Author of the best-selling book Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution
  • John Bradshaw, Director of Materials Recovery, Shaw Industries
  • Jonas Brickus, Client Innovation Strategy, IDEO
  • Jürgen Seitz, Director of Products, Publisher United Internet Media
  • Katie Kraus, Research Community, Scientist, Kimberly Clark
  • Kent Larson, Director Changing Places: a joint MIT Department of Architecture and Media Laboratory research consortium
  • Kim Leintz, Senior Manager II, Shopper Insights, Kimberly Clark
  • Laura Pombo, Managing director, e-health.es
  • Magnus Karlsson, New Business Development & Innovation, Ericsson
  • Maria Tagwerker, Product and Service Development, DOKA
  • Mark Adkins, Vice-President of Marketing and Board Member, Product Development & Management Association
  • Mark Jone,s Practice Lead, Service, IDEO
  • Mary Jo Frederich, Director , FOAK IBMf
  • Matthew Heim, Ph.D. President, NineSigma
  • Megan Stanton, Advanced Planning and Strategy Product Planner at Nissan North America, Nissan
  • Michael Duke, Chief Innovation Architect, Wells Fargo
  • Michelle Makowski, Sr. Marketing Manager, Intuit
  • Mike Maddock, CEO Founding Partner, Maddock Douglas
  • Najib Abusalbi, Global Director R&D Collaboration Academia and Technology Advisor, Schlumberger
  • Olga Patel, Innovation Intelligence Manager, Nestle USA
  • Paul Alvarez, MM NPDP Principal and Practice Leader, MetaVu
  • Paul Pluschkell, CEO, Spigit
  • Peter Corbett, CEO, iStrategyLabs - Co-creator of Apps for Democracy
  • Peter Koen, Associate Professor , Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Peter Sigmon, Vice President of Innovation, Shaw Industries
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Heiss, Vice President Knowledge Innovation Technology, Siemens
  • Raj Mishra, MD Vice President R&D, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Rami Levy, Distinguished Member & Technical Staff, Motorola
  • Ramin Heydarpour, Vice President of Research and Development, Avery Dennison
  • Robert G. Wolf, Vice President, Human Resources, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
  • Robert Kirschbaum, VP Open Innovation, DSM Innovation Center
  • Roger Miller Former, VP & GM International, La-Z-Boy
  • Sandra X. Lionetti, PhD Director of Talent Management, Leadership and Organizational Development, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
  • Scott Hirsch, VP of Business Development, Get Satisfaction
  • Sean McDowell, Director of Innovation, Converse Inc.
  • Stefan Lindegaard, Innovation Thought Leader
  • Stephen Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners
  • Steve Sasson, inventor digital camera, Kodak
  • Steven Faktor, VP Chairman’s Innovation Fund, American Express
  • Steven Gonzalez, Deputy Advanced Planning Office, NASA/Johnson Space Center
  • Steven Johnson, Creator hyperlocal media site, Outside.in
  • Susan Harman, Senior Manager, Product Management, Intuit
  • Susan Ward, President, ITECS
  • Terry Barhart, Senior Director Global R&D, Pfizer
  • Tom Esselman, Director - New Concept Development, Hallmark Cards
  • Tom Granzow, Senior Program Manager, Herman Miller
  • Tom Ouellette, Director, Global Brand Management & Strategy, InterContinental Hotels Group
  • Tom Shottes, President and CEO OSRAM Opto, Semiconductors
  • Totti Könnölä, Scientific officer European Commission, Joint Research Center Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
  • Ville Tikka, Senior Futures Specialist, Americas Trends, Opportunity Identification, Consumer & Customer Insight, Nokia USA
  • VISA - Speaker TBA
  • William J. Schulz, Application Cell Leader, Dow Corning Corporation