Agenda
Inspiration and Practical Realities
For further information or to register, call Adam Geiger at 1-305-450-1099, or email him at [email protected]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2022
8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM
Participant Meet ‘n’ Greet
This end-user/practitioner networking activity is your opportunity to identify – right out of the gate – those peers who share challenges similar to your own. It’s a great way to find participants who have thought leadership you can benefit from and to facilitate later dialogues throughout the event.
9:30 AM
Welcome and Headliner – Growth Portfolio Strategies for Rapidly Changing Industries
10:15 AM
Networking and Refreshment Break
10:35 AM
Executive Insight – Strategically Align Resources with Your Product Innovation Portfolio
11:00 AM
Case History – Portfolio Agility: Balancing Breakthrough and Iterative Innovation
11:25 AM
The Fix – Crowdsourcing Tactical Solutions to Our Most Vexing Challenges
Share your smarts! Crowdsource solutions to the most vexing challenges facing product innovation executives today. These are fifteen minute rapid fire sessions with two rotations. Each brainstorm group will build upon the other to develop a list of readily operationalized ideas to these common challenges.
The Fix on Go-to-Market Strategy
The Fix on Accelerating Cross-Discipline Decision Cycles
The Fix on Embedding the Value of Data in an Overall Solution
12:00 PM
Networking Luncheon
1:00 PM
Executive Bulletin – Building Innovation Infrastructure and Ecosystems
1:15 PM
Innovation Center Tour
Join us for a tour of MIT’s new Innovation Headquarters (iHQ) in Cambridge, MA — the home for MIT’s thriving community of innovators & entrepreneurs. Located in the heart of Kendall Square, “the most innovative square mile on the planet”, iHQ is the culmination of a decade of careful planning and thoughtful community-building that designed to creates the opportunity for world-changing impact.
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Learn more about the 9 resident programs and dozens of groups that support more than 2,500 student innovators working on over 500 startups annually. Featuring over 25,000 square feet of modular workspace and office space for key I&E organizations, iHQ is home to new experimental spaces including The Voxel Lab, a fully-equipped makerspace dedicated to nurturing innovation & entrepreneurship in music & the arts at MIT, and the MIT Alumni Venture Studio, a home for some of the many alumni programs from I&E organizations. During the tour, you’ll learn about MIT’s perspective on building a robust innovation ecosystem and the pedagogy that drove the design of the iHQ.
Lots of cool stuff happens here, sure to inspire!
2:15 PM
Executive Bulletin – Funding Innovation
2:45 PM
Critical Issue Roundtable – Integrating New Disruptive Technologies into Your Innovation Portfolio
This roundtable captures the power of all participants’ voices, insights and experiences via group discussion and exploration of the issue at hand.
3:30 PM
Capstone – Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Spirit
4:00 PM
Content for the New Product Innovation Workshop Concludes
4:30 PM
Happy Hour and Networking Dinner
Take networking a step further and join us for a unique networking dinner. A great opportunity to further relationships with your fellow peers in a relaxed, intimate setting! Not to Be Missed! The Amazing Dinner and Conversations We’ll Be Enjoying!