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2009 Conference Agenda

For individual conference session descriptions, please visit the Session Descriptions page.

Wednesday, October 21st

2:00 - 6:00Pre-Conference Workshop: Delivering on Innovation
  

Thursday, October 22nd

7:00 - 8:00Registration & Networking Breakfast
  
8:00 - 12:00MORNING GENERAL SESSIONS
 
8:00 - 8:30
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine
 
8:30 - 9:30
The Need for a Corporate Innovation Intelligence Ecosystem
Mark Atkins, Chairman, President & CEO, Invention Machine
 
9:30 - 10:30
Innovating to Deliver What's Next
Randy Schiestl, VP Research and Development, Boston Scientific
Jude Currier, Cardiovascular Knowledge Management & Innovation Practices Lead, Boston Scientific

 
10:30 - 11:00
Networking Break

11:00- 12:00
Chasing the Rabbit - How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win
Steven Spear, author of Chasing the Rabbit
  
12:00 - 1:00Lunch
  
1:00 - 2:00Goldfire Insight - the Power of K(now)
Jim Belfiore, Certified Innovation Master & Senior Director,
Client Innovation Practices, Invention Machine
  
2:00 - 2:30 Networking Break
  
2:30 - 3:30
Technology Vision & Product Roadmap
Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer, Invention Machine
  

3:30 - 5:20

AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

3:30 - 4:20
Driving a Successful Deployment
Jill Kunzelman, Senior Research Engineer, PolyOne

Collaborative Innovation
Jim Belfiore, Certified Innovation Master & Senior Director, Client Innovation Practices, Invention Machine

Maximizing Your Investment in Goldfire
Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine
Brian Harris, Manager, Customer Support, Invention Machine
Ed Quinan, Education Manager, Invention Machine

4:30 - 5:20
Catalyzing the R&D Process with Goldfire
Curtis Barr, Research & Development, Bemis

FMEA 
Benoît Simonet, Director of Client Innovation - Europe, Invention Machine

Building a High Performance Innovation Organization
Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer, Invention Machine

  
5:30 - 6:15Individualized Innovation Guru Sessions 
  
7:00 - 10:00Evening Dinner Reception
  

Friday, October 23rd

7:00 - 7:45Individualized Innovation Guru Sessions
  
7:00 - 8:00Networking Breakfast
  
8:00 - 8:50The Innovation Intelligence Ecosystem Roadmap
Barry Daitch, VP, Best Practices & Client Services, Invention Machine
  

9:00 - 12:05

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

9:00 - 9:50
Function Modeling for a Chemical System
Rich Durand, Director, Material and Characterization Science, Sun Chemical

White Space Thinking
Matt Coates, PhD, Innovation Consultant, Invention Machine

Going Batty with Goldfire? No Need...the Model is Quite Simple
Anne Vacca Smith, PhD, Senior Scientist, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson Company

9:50 - 10:15
Networking Break

10:15 - 11:05
Integrating Goldfire into Eastman Chemical's Opportunity Connect Process
Henry Gonzalez, Technology Fellow, Eastman Chemical Company

Semantics Best Practices
Benoît Simonet, Director of Client Innovation - Europe, Invention Machine

Patent Busting
Jim Belfiore, Certified Innovation Master & Senior Director, Client Innovation Practices, Invention Machine

11:15 - 12:05
A Barrier to Flow, not Innovation
Dave Pierson, Senior Design Engineer, MAGNET

Optimize Me
Matt Coates, PhD, Innovation Consultant, Invention Machine

Open Innovation
Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer, Invention Machine

 

 

 

  
12:10 - 1:00Lunch
  

1:00 - 3:30

AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSIONS

1:00 - 2:00
Customer Panel: Implementing the Innovation Intelligence Ecosystem

Moderated by Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine

Vincent Lyons, VP, Engineering and Product Development, Leggett & Platt
Bruce Mayer, Director, Engineering Environment Development and Support, Northrop Grumman
Nir Merry, Managing Director, Synexis Design Engineering, Applied Materials
Mary Beth Robles, VP, External Innovation, Colgate-Palmolive

2:00 - 3:00
Invention Machine Executive Roundtable
Mark Atkins, Chairman, Presidet & CEO
Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer
Barry Daitch, VP, Best Practices & Client Services
Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer

3:00 - 3:30
Closing Remarks
Mark Atkins, Chairman, President & CEO, Invention Machine
Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine

  
3:30 - 4:15Individualized Innovation Guru Sessions
  
 *schedule subject to change

User Conference

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What Clients Are Saying

“Really clever people can often be sitting in the dark, making innovation subject to chance. Invention Machine Goldfire has proven to be entirely effective for us."
- Shell Global Solutions

"To give you an idea of how often I use the software, I keep the Invention Machine Goldfire icon on the corner of my computer screen, next to Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. It's embedded in our business."
- Vice President, R&D

 
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