FEI 2024 & Key Innovation Perspectives - OPEN

Breakfast

7:00AM

FEI 2024 Welcome

8:00AM

Interdisciplinary Innovation Best Practice Roundtables Liza Sanchez - R&D Vice President, The Procter & Gamble Co. Christian Saclier - VP Design Innovation, PepsiCo

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Dakota Crow - Head of Innovation Programs, U.S. Bank Tammy Butterworth - Product Innovation Director, Welch’s

Insights From Actual Humanity-Centric Innovation Milan Ivosevic - VP of R&D and Innovation, CooperSurgical Lisa Fawcett - Executive Vice President, Strategy & Market Development, CooperSurgical Charles Smith - Executive Vice President, Quality, Regulatory, Life Sciences and Innovation, CooperSurgical

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Networking Break

10:00AM - 10:30AM

STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION

PROCESS

PEOPLE & CULTURE

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Mastering The Corporate-Startup Partnership Process Lisa Costello - Director, Head of Platform, Prologis Ventures, Prologis Tori Deems - Head of Community, Prologis Ventures AI-Powered Insights: How to Get Your NPD Process Down to a Science Nik Pearmine - VP Client Strategies Black Swan Data

Business Transformation in a World of Technological Blast: Design Thinking, Systems thinking, Change Management & Cultural Evolution To Drive Growth Christian Saclier - VP Design Innovation, PepsiCo

Mastering An Upfront R&D Strategy: An Innovation Culture Case Study Liza Sanchez - Vice President, Research & Development, Procter & Gamble

Collaborative Edge: Research Partnerships Fueling Innovation

Agile Insights Unleashed: AI and Anthropology Transform Buzz into Reality

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Kofi Gyasi, CEO - NotedSource Alexis O’Connor - Senior Product Development Scientist, General Mills From Idea To GTM: Innovation & Sales Uniting For Growth Michele Sandoval - Director of Innovation, E&J Gallo Winery

Cheryl Auger - Senior Director of Research for Predictive Anthropology, Lux Research

Supercharging Innovation Discovery with AI Miranda Helmer, Vice President, Innovation Discovery Oksana Sobol, Sn. Dir, Insights Lead, The Clorox Co.

Innovation As A Pathway To Increased Organizational Throughput Donald High - Chief Data Scientist, Internal Revenue Service

11:30AM - 12:00PM

Steve Wallace - National Sales Director, E & J Gallo Winery

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Lunch & Networking

From Innovation Strategy To Enterprise Transformation Ophelia Chiu - Vice President, Strategic Innovation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Innovation As Catalyst: Optimizing Processes To Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2031 Jhansi Kandasamy - Net Zero Program Director, Idaho National Laboratory

Zero To N Innovation: Attaining Ambidexterity Harsh Wardhan - Innovation Program Lead, Google

1:00PM - 1:30PM

Igniting Innovation: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Insights Laima Widmer - VP, Market Research, Suzy Alex Forman - Manager, Consumer Insights, Keurig Dr. Pepper

1:30PM - 2:00PM

Session delivered by Qmarkets

Late-Breaking Partner Session

Blending Science & Art Through Process

Self-Disruption: Balancing Short Term Gain With Long Term Meaningful Value Mark Slavens - President and Chief Operating Officer, Nano-Yield

Putting The Talent Puzzle Together In Next Generation Technologies Serene Hamsho - President, American Offshore Wind Academy

Unleash Innovation in 6 Weeks: More Doing, Less Talking Tucker Fort - Partner, Smart Design Ryan Fleming - Senior Director of Innovation, Central Garden and Pet Michael Bagalman - VP, Business Intelligence & Data Science, STARZ Sonya Sklaroff - Associate Professor, Parsons School of Design

2:00PM - 2:30PM

Innovating Beyond Products: Strategies for Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation Gus Valen - CEO & Entrepreneur, The Valen Group

2:30PM - 2:45PM

Late-Breaking Partner Session

2:45PM - 3:15PM

Networking Break

Onsite Workshop: Let’s Fill Your Innovation Pipeline Erin Mays - CEO & Co-Founder, Kalyn Rozanski - Chief Visionary Officer, The Ebco

3:15PM - 5:30PM

The Innovation Trail Offsfite Experience 1

Innovation District Offsite Experience 2

Prompt Engineering Mindset Workshop Amal Irgashevm - Generative AI Engineer, Berklee College of Music and special guests.

5:30PM - 6:00PM

Cocktails Sponsored by Sopheon

6:00PM

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