Why FEI is...
The Premiere Event for Corporate Innovators
For over 20 years, corporate innovators have trusted FEI as the gateway to unlocking the secrets of successful innovation in dynamic business landscapes. FEI unites industry leaders, visionaries, and trailblazers like no other event as they converge to share invaluable insights, strategies, and best practices.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge by mastering the latest trends, technologies, and methodologies driving innovation forward.
Corporate Innovators Take Center Stage
Check out some of the leading corporate innovators you'll hear from at FEI 2024
An Agenda Designed for YOU
FEI: Front End of Innovation 2024 is the only event where corporate innovators are the large majority. This year, we've expertly curated the program to include your cross-disciplinary peers while still remaining true to our core. Check out some of the 2024 sessions designed for YOU...
Zero To N Innovation: Attaining Ambidexterity
Delivering quarterly results is a must. Providing long-term vision is mandatory. Accomplishing both isn't easy. And so, finding the magical assimilation of short-term and long-term process to deliver on BOTH short-term and long-term growth is the goal. With the benefit of being informed by an organization that has accomplished this goal, Harsh Wardhan brings tried and true concepts to the stage for this session.
- 0:1 is of course important for revenue and for the present
- Focusing on ROI of course helps innovation
- Instilling a balance of short term and long term though ensures a focus on not only the present, but the future
- Keeping a focus on the ever changing reality of 5-20 years hence provides the opportunity to outpace disruption
- Understanding that outpacing disruption is now table stakes
Lessons Learned From Actual Humanity-Centric Innovation
Our Interdisciplinary Plenary Panel brings together Innovation, R&D, Strategy, Marketing disciplinarians who discuss how they best collaborate to ensure humanity-centric innovation. The CooperSurgical team showcases principles which we take forward into our interactive roundtable discussions which directly follow. Once you've experienced this panel along with the Roundtables that follow, you'll have a blueprint of how to better engage interdisciplinary innovation at your organization.
- Unpacking key questions that face humanity itself
- Understanding distinct innovation theses from interdisciplinary peers
- Discovering the various metrics that matter to further the innovation journey
- Realizing outcomes that prove success within each perspective
- Building on interdisciplinary collaboration for corporate and societal evolution
From Idea To GTM: Innovation & Sales Uniting For Growth
Innovation people and sales people usually speak different languages. They're usually informed by seamingly divergent goals. But it's unusual times. And unusual times call for unusual alliances. Having said that, in the Spirits industry- that alliance isn't unusual. This session showcases how very easily innovation and sales can acheive impressive organizational returns. If you've never been in a session that features a Spirits sales person, it's literally worth the price of admission to the entire event to experience it for the first time. Beyond that, you'll be able to take back tried and true principles of tying together front-end and back-end innovation for end-to-end results.
- Understanding how Innovation and Sales can work in an integrated fashion
- Realizing that sales drives GTM in the spirits industry and how other industries can benefit from lessons learned
- Diving into a VMC case study to understand how innovation and sales collaborated for success
- Building messaging and communication from early development through bringing it to market
- Rinsing and repeating with innovation and sales on the same page to attain further market share