Tuesday Breakout Tracks

TUESDAY 05.20.08 // BREAKOUT TRACKS

An Exploration of the Anatomy of a Breakthrough (Part 1)

(Chairs: Geoff Waite, SAGENTIA & Anne Orban, INNOVATION FOCUS)

11:15
From Pills to Platforms - Three
views of a breakthrough: R&D, Marketing, Strategy

Stephan G. Wiet, Director R&D
Consumer Sciences, MCNEIL PHARMACEUTICALS

Robert Hasselman, Marketing Director, MCNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE

Monica Corbett, Global Director, Business Strategy & Insight, MCNEIL PHARMACEUTICALS

1:15
Wide Thing: A Case Study of Innovating in a Mature Market

Sue Nelson, Manager of Truck Tire
Innovation, MICHELIN AMERICAS
RESEARCH COMPANY

2:00
Dream Catchers: Redefining Team Goals for Breakthrough Innovation

Christopher Sorensen, Bang & Olufsen

3:15
Connecting the Dots of Innovation: Building a Global
Research Collaboration with
Social Media

Dr. Burt Kaliski, formerly Chief
Scientist for RSA Laboratories,
presently Sr. Director, EMC
Innovation Network, EMC CORP

…And now my company says “Make it Green”

(Chair: Brenda Tollett, Vice President Innovation, ASHLAND)

11:15
Bring to market a 125 Year Old
Product: The New Environmental Light Bulb

Natarajan Venkatakrishnan
(Venkat), Technology Manager,
Growth & Innovation, GE
CONSUMER & INDUSTRIAL

1:15
Beyond Earth Day: Environment as a Core Business Issue

Jon Coifman, Vice President, Environment, WAGGENER EDSTROM WORLDWIDE

 

2:00
Creating an Ethos for Positive
Social Change

Peter Thum, Founder, ETHOS
WATER and Vice President,
STARBUCKS

3:15
Local Watershed Sustainability

Tom Sullivan, EHS/Sustainability
Manager, INTEL

Can Innovation Be Made Predictable?

(Chair: Jeff Stirrat, Master Black Belt, ETHICON)

11:15
Opportunity Engineering

Alex van Putten, Co – Author
Opportunity Engineering, Principal,
CAMERON AND ASSOCIATES
LLC

1:15
Six Sigma + Innovation (It's AND
not OR)

Shane A. Johnson, Vice President,
Innovation & Product Excellence,
BANK OF AMERICA

2:00
Building Capabilities And Processes To Make Innovation
More Predictable And Repeatable

Trisha Pergande, Director, Strategy
and Innovation, GENERAL MILLS

3:15
Meaningful Measurements Of
Organizational Innovation: What
Makes Sense to Measure

Katherine Thomas, Director of
Innovation and Senior Partner,
FLEISHMAN-HILLARD

Enabling Innovation Through Workspace Design

(Chairs: Peter Lawrence, CORPORATE DESIGN FOUNDATION & Sara Beckman HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS)

11:15
The Power of Workplace Design: Reinventing a company and it’s bottom line

Mary Powell, Chief Operating
Officer, GREEN MOUNTAIN
POWER

1:15
Work Space & Innovation, a Symbiotic Relationship

David Fik, Sr. Workplace
Strategist, Ideation Group,
HAWORTH

Eva Maddox, Principal, Eva
Maddox Branded Environments׀
PERKINS + WILL

2:00
Creating a New Workplace that
Fuels Innovation & Ideas for Hill
Holliday

Thomas Vecchione,
Principal/Global Workplace Design
Leader, GENSLER

Kevin Moehlenkamp, Executive
Vice President, Chief Creative
Officer, HILL HOLLIDAY

3:15
Planning and Building for Interaction, Efficiency and Innovation at WGBH

Chris Pullman, VP Design, WGBH
Bob Luchetti, ROBERT LUCHETTI
ASSOCIATES, INC.

Innovation Thought Leaders

11:15
Creating an Innovative New Growth Engine in a Mature Corporation

Ted Goodwin, Vice President,
Business Development,
APPLETON PAPERS, INC.

Jeff Hovis, Managing Principal,
PRODUCT GENESIS

1:15
Infusing Outside Industry Experts Into Your New Product Development Process

Mike Maddock, CEO,
3-2-1LAUNCH!

2:00
Tapping into the Collective Genius for Collaborative Innovation & Problem Solving

Mark Turrell, CEO, IMAGINATIK
PLC

3:15
The Ten Degrees of Freedom in
Designing Your Idea Management Process

Enno Scholz, Managing
Partner, HYPE SOFTWARETECHNIK GMBH

 

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