Speakers
Meet Your 2008 Innovation Immersion Leaders
In Every Era Innovators Drive Us forward.
Who Are the Innovation Award Winners Who WIll Drive You Forward?
Business Week’s Top 25 Champions of Innovation:
“They roam vast spaces of global corporations fighting to make innovation routine, not random; central, not marginal; exciting, not scary. They educate, inspire, cajole, hire, bribe, punish, build- all to transform their companies’ cultures.”
Dr. Nancy Tennant Snyder, Corporate VP for Leadership and Strategic Competencies reporting to the Chairman & CEO, Whirlpool Corporation: “Snyder made a big push to solicit ideas from top to bottom in the 66,000-person company. Now she also relies on 240 full-time employees dubbed I-consultants.”
Tina Zinter-Chahin, SVP, R&D, Fisher-Price (Mattell): “Zinter-Chahin demystified innovation by creating a transparent, rigid, procedure-filled framework at Fisher-Price. One hallmark is her “spelunking” sessions where staffers make ethnographic "deep dives" to observe how children play.”
Mary Jo Cook, VP, Innovation, The Clorox Company: “Cook’s innovation magic is all about blending developments in technology with developments in consumer understanding.”
SOURCE: BUSINESS WEEK MAGAZINE
Fortune’s Top 24 Innovations of 2007:
“These 24 disrupters have gone up against the odds as they’ve rattled old industries and tried to create new ones.”
Dan Olschwang, CEO, JumpTap: “If the mobile phone is the new PC, is JumpTap the new Google? The two-year-old company has developed a search engine and search-advertising platform complete with keyword auctions - sound familiar? - specifically designed for cellphones.”
Hjalmar Windbladh, CEO, Rebtel: “The latest entry in the (almost) free-phone-call frenzy, Rebtel lives up to its bad-boy name by offering international calls for the cost of a local connection by assigning local phone numbers to the dialer and the dialed.”
SOURCE & PHOTOS: FORTUNE ONLINE
Fast Company’s Customers First:
The winners “transform ordinary transactions into entertaining experiences – delighting customers and showing everyone else the way.”
Richard Braddock, Chairman & CEO, FreshDirect: Braddock has innovated a business model to meet a new market for consumer needs.
SOURCE: FAST COMPANY
Who Else Will Address my Challenges at Innovation Immersion 2008?
Who Will Challenge Me to Expand My Thinking? (Keynotes continued)
Driving Growth through Innovation: Robert Tucker, Author
Starbucks: Peter Thum, Vice President, & Co-Founder,
Ethos Water
US National Intelligence Community: Eric Haseltine, Former CTO & Former Director of Research, National Security Agency (NSA), Former Associate Director for Science and Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Former Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering
Wm. Wrigley Jr. & Company: Surinder Kumar, Ph.D., MBA; Chief Innovation Officer
Who Will Help Me Save the Planet, The Economy, and My Company?
(‘Innovating in a Recession’ Summit Speakers)
Disney Toys: Chris Heatherly, Vice President, Technology & Innovation
eBay: Rolf Skyberg, Disruptive Innovator and Innovation Team Lead.
Ecology Coatings, Inc: Sally Ramsey, Founder & Vice President, New Product Development
Hewlett-Packard: Joseph Batista, Director & Chief Creatologist
Nike: Lorrie Vogel, General Manager, Considered Products
Who Will Help Me Connect the Unconnected? (‘Collaboration & Open Innovation’ Track Speakers)
Google: Ellen Konar, Chieftain & Global Customer Insights
Kraft Foods: Steven Goers, Ph.D., Vice President Open
Innovation and Investments
Pizza Hut: Larry Dykstra, Consumer Product Innovation Leader
Unilever: Mehmood Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development
Wells Fargo: Daniel Ayala, Senior Vice President
Who Will Help Me Create the Future? (‘Strategy & Leadership’ Track Speakers)
Best Buy: Jeffrey Severts, Vice President, Geek Squad
GE: Patia McGrath, Global Imagination Breakthrough Leader
Mayo Clinic: Julie Koch, Director of Operations, Center for Innovation & Health Care Transformation
Shell: Russell J Conser, GameChanger
Tyson Foodservice: Tom Pellizzetti, Senior Innovation Manager
Who Will Help Me Deliver on Innovation? (‘Culture & Rewards’ Track Speakers)
Bombardier Aerospace: Mike Hatrick & David Wootton, Innovation Transformation
Cardinal Health: Michael Botos, Vice President, Strategy & Innovation
Hasbro: Todd Wise, Senior Vice President, Toy Design
& Development
Coca-Cola: Keith Wilmot, Global Director – Insights, Ideas, & Creativity
Who Will Help Me Move Great Ideas Forward? (‘Innovation Thought Leaders’ Track Speakers)
3-2-1 Launch!: Mike Maddock, CEO, Founding Partner
Harrah’s Entertainment: Lisa Marchese, Senior Director of Brand Development
Innocentive: Tom Venable, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
NineSigma, Inc.: Kevin Stark, Engagement Manager
Prophet: Kevin O’Donnell, Senior Partner
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide: Marianne Allison,
Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
MarketTools: Mike Waite, VP, Panels and Communities
Who Will Lead Me in Experiential, On-Site Creativity? (‘Experience It Yourself’ Session Speakers)
New & Improved: Jonathan Vehar, Senior Partner
InnovationEdge: Cheryl Perkins, Founder & President, former SVP & CIO, Kimberly-Clark
InnovationPoint: Soren Kaplan, Ph.D., Managing Principal
Kimberly Clark: Mary Ellyn Vicksta, Creative Innovation Pioneer & Jamie Woolf, Learning and Development Specialist
Faurecia: Rob Huber, Vice President Marketing, Design
& Innovation
Frito-Lay: Kevin O’Sullivan, Vice President, Research
& Development, Protein Snacks
Chevron: Michele Egger, Innovation Operations
Creating Emotion in Games: David Freeman, Author, & Guru to Hollywood Storytellers
Martin Brothers Distributing Co: Shaun Courbat,
Chief Customer Officer
DrawSuccess: Brownell Landrum, Chief Executive Officer