Open Innovation Date for Your Diary
Here’s a date to put a ring round on your calendar. June 13th -14 2012 is when the 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference will take place, in conjunction with INPEX, America’s largest invention trade show.
The event is being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and will bring together key open innovation practitioners from numerous industries for two days of inspirational and highly informative and practical talks, sessions and debates. They will address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle.
The organisers are promising attendees they will benefit from:
Hearing from Fortune 500 companies on how they approach, maintain and develop successful innovation practices. This will include companies such as Spigit, Colgate-Palmolive Co., United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and the Wright Brothers Institute.
Speakers presenting in-depth ideas and optimization of innovation challenges.
Various levels of sessions to enrich and strengthen new open innovation and product development professionals, or solidify and broaden the knowledge of advanced OI practitioners.
The open innovation conference’s keynote speakers are:
John Johnson – VP, Innovation Development, Spigit
Dr. Kenneth Klimpel -Worldwide Director, External Innovation, Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Dr. Bart Barthelemy – Director, IDEA Lab,Wright Brothers Institute
Emily Riley -Collaborative Innovation Principal, Wright Brothers Institute
Jatin DeSai – CEO, The DeSai Group
Potential attendees are being invited to take advantage of early bird registration, and the details can be found here.
You can watch the promo video for the invention conference below:
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