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Upcoming Events

FRONT END OF INNOVATION EUROPE

26-28 JANUARY, 2009 // FAIRMONT MONTE CARLO, MONACO

Keynote Speakers

  • Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economic Trends & Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
  • Jan Kriekels, Director M&R&D, Art Director, Owner, JAGA & Founder,
    UCHRONIA
  • Leo Kärkkäinen, Research Fellow, Chief Visionary in Systems Research,Office of CTO,
    NOKIA
  • Mr. Wolfgang Müller-Pietralla, Head of Future Research and Trend Transfer,
    Volkswagen AG Group
  • Leo Roodhart, Head of Strategic Innovation unit, Group GameChanger
    Shell International

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FRONT END OF INNOVATION US

MAY 18 – 20, 2009 // BOSTON WORLD TRADE CENTER AND SEAPORT HOTEL

Keynote Speakers

  • Jim Collins, Author, Good to Great & Built to Last
  • Verena C. Kloos, President, BMW Group DesignworksUSA
  • John Kao, Innovation Strategist and Author, Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
  • Peter Erickson, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Technology and Quality, General Mills
  • Jody Turner, Founder, CultureofFuture.com
  • Max von Zedtwitz Ph.D, Professor of Strategy & Innovation, Professor of Strategy & Innovation, Peking University, Author, Managing Global Innovation
  • Dev Patnaik, founder and principal, Jump Associates; adjunct professor, Stanford University; Author, Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
  • Mike Santori, Fellow, National Instruments

PDMA & IIR - A Dynamic Partnership

For the past seven years, the Product Development and Management Association and the Institute for International Research have joined forces to provide the innovation and product development community with the most thought provoking and groundbreaking conferences focused on the Front End (or discovery portion) of the innovation process. Matching best-in-class speakers with your current and future innovation challenges, this series of events promises superior content you cannot find anywhere else.

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