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FEI: Front End of Innovation
May 19-21, 2025
Omni Boston Hotel at the SeaportBoston
May 19-21, 2025 |Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, Boston

FEI: Front End of Innovation 2025

Harvesting Innovation: Sowing the Seeds of Future Growth

For 21 years, FEI has brought together innovation disciplinarians and corporate change makers to drive progress with human intelligence. Now, as global business ecosystems are transformed by artificial intelligence, our collaborative use of AI can address the Innovator’s Dilemma: balancing current success with the need to innovate and adapt to emerging trends through disruptive technology. It takes innovation disciplinarians working with corporate change makers to turn the green shoots of innovation, informed by both human and artificial intelligence, into the next generation of products, businesses, and markets for a better and brighter future.


Tammy Butterworth

Product Innovation Director

Welch's

This year's focus on interdisciplinary interactivity within the front end is a testament to FEI's commitment to staying ahead of the curve. In an era where collaboration and cross-disciplinary approaches are paramount, this theme couldn't be more timely or relevant. It's a great progression into what's truly needed for the industry to thrive and evolve.

There’s Only One Place...

The Innovator’s Voice is the Large Majority

Held in the heart of Boston's innovation district, FEI is the one event where client-side corporate leaders are the large majority, creating space for you to identify trends, swap hacks and develop best practices with your peers and their counterparts responsible for innovation throughout the organization.

Inspiration Meets Action

From big name “thinkers” to in the trenches innovators- FEI's diverse programming showcases the rule breakers, trend setters, dreamers, and doers leading change at their organizations. Leave with fresh inspiration and a host of new best practices to benefit your organization.

Interdisciplinary Interactivity

With countless applied case studies, roundtable sessions, interactive workshops, gamified programming, actionable problem-solving game plans and off-site innovation experiences, FEI ensures you connect with the experts you need to know so you leave with actionable, problem-solving game plans that you can put to use right away at your organization.

Fresh Content, Showcased First

The skilled FEI advisory board comprises innovators and corporate changemakers from some of the world's best companies who scour the globe to ensure you’re hearing the most prolific stories from around the world, first.

Innovation, R&D & Product Meet Interdisciplinary, Cross-Industry Peers

FEI is the only forum where diverse points of view from interdisciplinary, cross-industry collaborators all along the innovation value chain unite for three full days to identify trends, share best practices and solve shared dilemmas.

Next-Level Networking

The FEI-exclusive matchmaking app allows you to level-up your personal and professional networks onsite while you learn. Our innovative app is designed to help you maximize your experience onsite, introducing you to the people you need to meet to benefit most.

Sustainability

At FEI: Front End of Innovation, our aim is to be an ever more sustainable, positive impact business.

We focus on the areas in which we can make the most significant contribution: our operations, the content and knowledge Informa’s brands provide and the communities in which we work. FasterForward, our five-year sustainability program contains ambitious commitments to embed sustainability into everything we do and help our customers and markets do the same.