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Webinar Week Series: Innovation

Validating and Accelerating Innovation in the Midst of COVID-19

Frost & Sullivan is excited to announce our Monthly Webinar Week Series, complimentary to you. Daily, at 11:00am EDT, Monday, June 22 through Friday, June 26, we will present a 30-minute webinar to help you pivot with agility.

This month will feature leading industry thought leaders sharing their insight and use cases on organizations taking on the very real challenges we face at this moment in time. Now more than ever, the ability to adapt to all that has and will continue to change is paramount.

Each speaker presentation will be followed by an interactive virtual roundtable discussion for Growth Innovation Leadership Council members. We’d love for you to join for the full hour and welcome a conversation on the dozen + benefits of membership. Interested in learning more? Contact us today to join the Council.

Agenda

Powering Innovation with a Process Driven Gut

Richard Sear

Partner & Senior Vice President
Frost & Sullivan

In parallel with the growth of the digital world, innovation is increasingly seen as a prominent driver of growth in competitive and challenging business environments. This session will look at the mechanisms to integrate into a fully holistic innovation engine to ensure innovation is following a trajectory of value back to the organizations it serves.

 

Key Take-Aways:

  • Best practices from hundreds of innovation engagement distilled into clear actions for success
  • Case study examples to illustrate the return on investment from a process driven approach
  • Benchmark your own efforts against the learnings from our analysis of best in class organizations
New Customer Problems in a Post Pandemic World: How to Identify Changing Needs and Take Action

Alex Goryachev

Managing Director/General Manager – Global Co-Innovation Network & Employee Innovation Programs
Cisco

 

Hayley Horn

Data Scientist, Insights & Strategy
Interstate Batteries

 

Hardy Simes

Innovation Product Manager
Office of the Future
HP

The global pandemic has created significant uncertainty from both consumers of your solutions as well as your own executives. This session will tackle that uncertainty, provide a focus on the areas that will require a “reset”, and detail how that reset should be actioned. We will uncover if end users will have changed their requirements and what to do about.



Key Take-Aways:

  • Clarity for purpose driven analysis of end users to uncover changing needs
  • Best practices in integrating market/societal scenarios into your customer needs analysis
  • Examples of key trends that are here to stay post COVID-19
Generating Solutions for Long Term Success and Customer Loyalty

April Bertram

Business Development Director, IoT
GOJO Industries Inc.

Michael O’Connor, Ph.D.

Director
Strategy and Project Management
Medtronic

Sharon Parsons

Associate Director
Product Design/Development
Humana

Growth is increasingly difficult to achieve and as such solutions must be generated to be as anti-fragile as possible, leaning on data to assume a position of ongoing assessment. Solution generation must be focused on rapid incubation and testing to tease out optimizations and drive higher customer loyalty.

 

Key Take-Aways:

  • A guide to align solution generation to success metrics
  • Best practices in incubating solution testing in light of rapidly changing environments
  • Evidence of success for an anti-fragile approach
Agile Research & Development Strategies to Drive Higher Success Rates

Paul Campbell

Former Chief Innovation Officer
W. L. Gore & Associates

Evren Eryurek, Ph.D.

Director of Product Management
Google Cloud, Data Analytics
Google

Jeffrey Worsham

Global Lead
Technology & Innovation
Northrop Grumman Corporation

To understand the future of R&D is to know the form and function of R&D in the innovation process. This session will focus on the way R&D has to and needs to evolve in order to remain constantly agile to customer needs and highly responsive to constant innovation.

 

Key Take-Aways:

  • A clear picture of the future role of R&D in the innovation process
  • Proven examples of organizations executing on an agile platform to achieve success
  • Key steps required to pivot to wider implementation
Best Practices for Successful Innovation Implementation

Susan Lucas-Conwell

Executive Vice President
CSIRO US

Mohan Nair

Senior Vice President
Chief Innovation Officer
Cambia Health Solutions

Beverly Rider

Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer
Hitachi America

Implementation is critical to the innovation function. In this session we will uncover the optimal ways for companies to select, identify and secure business partners for the implementation of a solution and to prepare the company for a wider scale effort.

 

Key Take-Aways:

  • Understand the depth of involvement of the innovation teams
  • Learn key methods for bridging the gap between innovation and wider scale implementation
  • Discover best practices that have proven out over the past few years leading to high growth

Speakers

April Bertram

Business Development Director, IoT
GOJO Industries Inc.

Paul Campbell

Former Chief Innovation Officer
W. L. Gore & Associates

Evren Eryurek, Ph.D.   

Director of Product Management, Google Cloud, Data Analytics
Google

Alex Goryachev

Managing Director/General Manager – Global Co-Innovation Network & Employee Innovation Programs
Cisco

Hayley Horn

Data Scientist
Insights & Strategy
Interstate Batteries

Susan Lucas-Conwell

Executive Vice President
CSIRO US

Mohan Nair

Senior Vice President
Chief Innovation Officer
Cambia Health Solutions

Michael O’Connor, Ph.D.

Director
Strategy and Project Management
Medtronic

Sharon Parsons

Associate Director
Product Design/Development
Humana

Beverly Rider

Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer
Hitachi America

Richard Sear

Partner & Senior Vice President
Frost & Sullivan

Hardy Simes

Innovation Product Manager
Office of the Future
HP

Jeffrey Worsham

Global Lead
Technology & Innovation
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Snapshot of Who’s Participating

3M
3Pillar Global
Abloy
ADP LLC
AdventHealth
Advocare
Advocate Aurora Health
Aernnova
AFL
Agilent
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Analog Devices
AnswerRocket
APC Automotive
ArisGlobal
Armstrong Relocation
AT&T
AXXONSOFT US
Baker Hughes
BASF
Battelle
BAYER LLC
BD
Becton Dickinson
Berry Global
Birmingham Airport Authority
BlackRidge Technology
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City
Bostik Inc
Brandable, Inc.
Breg
Brewer Science, Inc.
Burr Oak Tool Inc
Buzz Points
C2Consulting
CACI
Cambia Health Solutions
Cardone Industries
Carnegie Mellon University
Caterpillar
Caterpillar Petroleum
Celero Solutions
Century Link
Cerner Corportaion
Chainyard
Chargebee
CMU
Cooley Group
Corbion
CSAA IG
CSBio
DataRobot
Dell Computer Corporation
Dentsply

Dominion Aesthetic Technologies, Inc.
Dow
DTNA
Dun & Bradstreet
Duquesne Light
eBay Inc.
efi
Eli-Lilly
Embraer
EnsembleIQ
EPC
Ericsson
Etisalat
EXFO Inc.
Felcra
FELCRA Berhad
Fichtner Italia
Fifth Third Bank
Fountain Design & Innovation
Franklin Energy Services, LLC.
Fulflex, A Garflex Inc. Company
g2o
GE Healthcare
Geisinger
Gilbarco Veeder Root
GOJO Industries
Golden State Foods
Greywale Advisors
Grifols
GumGum Inc
Helmer Scientific
Hitachi
Honda R&D Americas
Honeybee Robotics
Hubbell Incorporated
Hydraforce
IBIM Capital Sdn Bhd
ICBC
Information Control Corporation
Injeq Oy
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Insurgent Brands
Intel
Intelligent Product Solutions
Interactions
IPG
IPS
iTradeNetwork
Jabil
JCK Engineering LLC
Jockey International
John Cockerill
Johnson & Johnson
jumio

Kimberly-Clark Professional
Konica Minolta
KTO KARATAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Larson Manufacturing Company
Lasership
Levvel
Liberty Latin America
Littlewood Fencing
Lubrizol
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
MAHLE
Master Lock Company
MATRADE
Medline
MEDNAX
Medtronic
Michigan Technological University
Mitsubishi Electric R&D Center Europe BV
Mojo Vision Inc
Molinos
Monument Chemical
Motif FoodWorks
Mot-R-fied
MRP Counsel
Munters Corporation (MUS)
Nabaltec AG
National Instruments
Nationwide Insurance
Nearmap
NeuroFlow
New Brunswick Power
Newell Brands
NFI
NFP
Nomura Research Institute
Nottingham Spirk
NRIA
Oars + Alps LLC
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.
P.C. Fiore & Associates, INC
PAPER + TOAST
Payanika co ltd
PDI
Perspecta
Pharmavite
Philips
PPG Industries
Product Creation Studio
ProHealth Care
Propeller Health
PT Honda R&D Indonesia
Qualis Automotive
Rally Health
RB
Reckitt Benckiser

Renault Nissan
Roche Tissue Diagnostics
Rockline Industries
Rogers Corporation
RPSG
Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Inc.
RXBAR
S&C Electic
Sargento
Schneider Electric
SEAS Community Partners, LLC
Shark Ninja
SiriusXM Connected Vehicle
Smart Grid Solutions
SmartOrg
SonicWALL Technology Systems India Pvt Ltd
Sony Europe B.V.
Spectrum Enterprise
Sugee & Family Sdn Bhd
Sundyne LLC
Surlean Foods
SWBC
Taco
Tenet Partners
The Linux Foundation
The Manitowoc Company Incorporated
thredUP
topBuild
Tupperware Brands
UITM
Ukm
Unboxed Technology
Unico
Unified
Unimax Systems Corporation
Universal Nutrition
University of Coimbra
University of Texas – San Antonio
USAA
UTSA
Venminder, Inc.
Vinventions
Vit-Best
Voices dot com
W.L. Gore & Associates
Wahl Clipper Corporation
Washington CORE
Water Research Commission
Wayfair
workstride
Wright Brothers Institute
Xero Inc
Zacco R&D Pvt. Ltd.

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