Agenda - FEI In-person - 9/20 | FEI USA: Front End of Innovation

9:00am - 9:15am15 mins

Welcome:

Dennis Dalton - Commercialization Center of Excellence, C&P Technology., Shell

9:15am - 10:00am45 mins

30 min KEYNOTE speech: Turning Adversity into the Advantage followed by fireside chat q/a

Laura Huang - Professor, Harvard Business School and Best Selling Author “Edge”
Michele Sandoval - Director of Innovation, E. & J. Gallo Winery

10:00am - 10:30am30 mins

Networking Break / 1-2-1 Partnering on the Patio

10:30am - 11:10am40 mins

Track 1 - Indoor: Accelerating Innovation: How Different Companies Thrive

A Changing Material World

Andrew Dent - Executive Vice President, Research, Material ConneXion
Jennifer Gumpert - VP of Business Development and Operations, Material ConneXion®

10:30am - 10:40am10 mins

Track 2 - Outdoor: How to be Successful in Corporate-Startup Collaboration

Chairman opening remarks:

Tucker Marion - Associate Professor, Technological Entrepreneurship, Northeastern University

10:40am - 11:20am40 mins

Track 2 - Outdoor: How to be Successful in Corporate-Startup Collaboration

Panel: Think Like a Founder

Cait Brumme - Managing Director, MassChallenge Boston
Steve Fink - Director of Business Planning, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
Pritam Bhattarai - R&D Open Innovation, CLOROX

11:10am - 11:50am40 mins

Track 1 - Indoor: Accelerating Innovation: How Different Companies Thrive

The Retirement Industry is Using TikTok for Insights—Why Aren’t You?

Vidhi Sanders - VP of Marketing, Capital Group
Hannah Poindexter - Director of Account Growth & Strategy, Dose

11:30am - 12:30pm60 mins

Track 2 - Outdoor: How to be Successful in Corporate-Startup Collaboration

Panel: Corporate Innovation and startups from the perspective of the founder

Karolina Starczak - CEO and Co-Founder, Nutrimedy
Dan Wexler - Co-Founded, EatWell
Anna Barnacka - CEO, MindMics, Inc.
Cait Brumme - Managing Director, MassChallenge Boston
John Gobron - CEO, SafeDose

11:50am - 12:35pm45 mins

Track 1 - Indoor: Accelerating Innovation: How Different Companies Thrive

Panel Discussion // A New Breed of Innovators on the Rise

Michele Sandoval - Director of Innovation, E. & J. Gallo Winery
Gina O’Connor - Professor, BABSON COLLEGE
Devon Skerritt - Director, Design Thinking Research at SNHU Labs, Southern New Hampshire University
Mohan Nair - Mohan Nair, Advisory to President, George Fox University, Expert in residence, Lewis & Clark Bates Center for Entrepreneurship, Emerge and Movac Capital

12:35pm - 1:20pm45 mins

Lunch

1:20pm - 1:50pm30 mins

Keynote: Finding your JOY: From Commoditized Product to Retail Empire

Karen Robinovitz - Co-Founder, Sloomoo Institute

1:50pm - 2:20pm30 mins

The Secret Lives of Customers

Dave Duncan - Senior Partner, Innosight

2:20pm - 2:40pm20 mins

Planning the Automotive Future

Steve Wunker - Managing Director, New Markets Advisors
Ari Zelmanow - Head of Analytics Research & Insight, Panasonic

2:40pm - 2:50pm10 mins

Afternoon break and transition outdoors

2:50pm - 3:30pm40 mins

Outdoor Panel: Driving transformative growth

Scott Kirsner - CEO and Co-Founder, Innovation Leader
Pari Gaikwad - Head of Digital, Cambridge Design
Craig Dubitsky - Chief Innovation Strategist, Colgate
Mike Dipaola - Director, Corporate R&D, Innovation Capability, Procter & Gamble

3:30pm - 4:00pm30 mins

Outdoor case study: The Rise of Contactless Commerce

Will Graylin - Founder & CEO, OV Loop & CEO, Indigo Technologies

4:00pm - 5:00pm60 mins

Outdoor Cocktail Reception

FEI In-person - 9/20Monday, 20 September 2021 - EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5)

FEI In-person - 9/20Monday, 20 September 2021 - EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5)