Innovation Ahead by IRI
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Go inside the minds of today’s top innovation leaders. In each episode, IRI spotlights boundary-pushing thinkers shaping the future of innovation. From operational breakthroughs to strategic foresight, get the insights you need to lead with confidence and stay ahead of change.
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IS 26 Session: 2025 Maurice Holland Award Winner Address
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Interactive Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Powering Growth Through Open and Co-Innovation
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Cross-functional Innovation EMD’s Microphysiological Systems Project
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Harnessing AI for Real World Impact
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Innovating Inside and Outside the Core
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Driving the Innovation Pipeline for Impact
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May 13, 2026 |
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IS 26 Session: Forces Shaping the Next Era
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May 13, 2026 |
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Thought Leader Interview: AI at the Frontier of Scientific Innovation: From Algorithms in Nature to Digitizing Smell
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Innovating Through University Partnerships: Hollister’s Journey to Strategic Collaboration
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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ITF 25 Session: Pulling into Port: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Preparing Your New Value Chain
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Exploring New Lands: Breaking Down Industry Boundaries and Building New Value Chains
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Strategic Approaches to Resiliency in Uncertain Times
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Keeping the Ship in Order: Sustainability and Supply Chains Today
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: How to Build the Workforce of the Future
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Preparing the Crew: Planning Your Future Workforce in the Age of AI
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Spotting Rough Seas – and How You’ll Get Through Them
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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ITF 25 Session: Taking the Helm: From Stuck to Scale: The New Playbook for Corporate Innovation
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Beyond the AI Pilot: Three Trends R&D Leaders Must Know to Prepare for 2026
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Breaking Through the Valley of Death: A Practical Guide for R&D Leaders on Turning Technical Success into Commercial Reality
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Managing Substances of Concern: A Smarter Approach to Sustainable Innovation
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Accelerating Product Development: The Industrial Shift to AI/ML-Driven Formulation
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Co-Innovation at the Edge: Powering AI-Driven Data Centers Through Trust and Partnership
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Webinar: Reinventing R&D Knowledge Access & Management with AI
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: DARPA’s Breakthrough R&D in Materials and Manufacturing
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: Transforming Waste into Wealth
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May 28, 2025 |
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2024 Maurice Holland Award Winner Address: Rhetorical or Genuine Slack Time? Temporal Attributes, Barriers, and Outcomes of Slack Time
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: Innovating in a Sustainable World
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: Facilitated Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: The Regulatory Landscape: Current State and Potential Challenges
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: Transformational Innovation: From Vision to Value
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May 28, 2025 |
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IS 2025 Session: The ROI of Bold Ideas: Fueling the Innovation Pipeline
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May 28, 2025 |
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Webinar: Launch It Forward: An Entrepreneurial Path for Corporate Leaders to Commercialize Technologies
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Webinar: Navigating Extended Producer Responsibility: What’s Changing and What You Need to Know
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Webinar: Transforming R&D: How Generative AI is Reshaping Innovation
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Webinar: Navigating AI Risks: Tackling Nefarious Uses and Emerging Threats
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Driving Circularity: A Thought Leader Interview with Brent Bell on the Future of Recycling
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Webinar: Unlocking Innovation: How Milliken’s R&D Digitized Lab Notebooks for Improved Knowledge Access
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability: Insights from PPG’s Ed Rakiewicz
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Webinar: Mastering AI in R&D: Setting Expectations and Achieving Milestones
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Webinar: Greenwashing: Navigating Corporate Sustainability
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Report: Driving Innovation through Customer Insights: The Novonesis Approach to Collaborative Product Development
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Bite-Sized Insights: Generative AI Update from Iria Giuffrida
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Report: Innovative Upskilling: How Eastman and A. O. Smith Are Shaping Workforce Development
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Legal Implications of Generative AI Update with Iria Giuffrida
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Lora Cecere, founder, Supply Chain Insights
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Report: Innovative Roadmapping: Strategic Planning Insights Featuring Campbell Soup Company
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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IS 2024 Session: How will regulations around PFAS and other ESG issues impact you?
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May 31, 2024 |
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IS 2024 Session: Sustainability and the Innovation Pipeline at Honeywell
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May 31, 2024 |
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IS 2024 Session: Increasing Speed and Agility through Digitalization and AI
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May 31, 2024 |
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IS 2024 Session: Quantifying and Generating Value through R&D and Innovation at Lubrizol
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May 31, 2024 |
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IS 2024 Session: Integrating Sustainability Goals into Innovation with Henkel and AZEK
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May 31, 2024 |
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Webinar: Sustainability Regulations: EU Deep Dive
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Report: How Caterpillar's Trailblazing Approach Revolutionized Knowledge Management and Transfer
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Webinar: Enabling Data-driven Decision-making
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: How Milliken eliminated PFAS from its operations with Jeff Strahan, Director of Research Compliance and Sustainability
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Report: The Challenge of Horizon 2: Implications for effective opportunity development
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: AI in Science with Rebecca Willett, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Telling BASF’s Sustainability Story with Luiziana Ribeiro, Director of Sustainability, BASF
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: AI Use Cases at INVISTA with Chitra Kumar Sai, Data Scientist, INVISTA
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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IS 2023 Session: Finding the right innovation and R&D structure to meet strategic needs
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Raising Sustainability to New Heights at Boeing with Sheila Remes, Vice President, Environmental Sustainability, at The Boeing Company
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: How Milliken removed PFAS from its operations with Jeff Strahan, Director of Research, Compliance, and Sustainability at Milliken & Company
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Staying at the bleeding edge of digital innovation with Brian Standen, Global Head of Digital Innovation at BASF
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Smart Glasses: Balancing expectations and reality with Dan Abramowicz, CTO, and Alberto Rodriguez, Digital Optimization Team Leader at Crown Holdings, Inc.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Sustainability and Regulations: What innovators need to know with Brandon Farris, Vice President of Energy and Resources Policy, National Association of Manufacturers
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Legal implications of AI: What innovators need to know with Iria Giuffrida, William & Mary Law School
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Building muscle memory with a year dedicated to sustainability with Anantha Desikan, ICL
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Moving beyond water cooler conversations with Pete Weddington, Owens Corning
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May 19, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Consumer-driven Sustainability with Jerry Porter, Procter & Gamble
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May 12, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: A Top Down and Bottom Up Approach to Sustainability with Jami Haaning and Wojtek Osowiecki, Lam Research
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization from manufacturing to customer experience with Sam Immordino and Lou Stocco, USG
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Value Creation and Risk Management with Rebecca Ott, J.M. Smucker
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Packaging Sustainability and Technology with Laura Buen Abad, Sonoco
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Cybersecurity with Rod Masney, O-I Glass
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Sustainability and Innovation with Rick Michelman, Michelman
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: AR and Innovation with Terri Griffith, Simon Fraser University and Dave Alpert, GeoPogo AR+
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Thought Leader Interview: ADHD and Entrepreneurship with Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Webinar: Digital Twins and Their Capabilites with Don Kinard, Lockheed Martin
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Webinar: How Veterans’ Experience Can Best Serve in Industry Roles with with Sean Bruce (Hess) and Perezam Takouda (Cargill)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Webinar: How to Increase Diversity in Industry and Academic with Brennon Marcano, GEM Fellows Program
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Innovative Thinker and Disrupter Identification with William Green, University of Birmingham, UK
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Neurodiversity and Innovation with Dave Caudel, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems with Randall Wright, MIT
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Diversity, Culture, and Inequality Research with Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Augmented Reality Thought Leader Interview with John Simmins, Alfred University
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Webinar: LGTBQ+ Employee Resource Group Creation with Carolyn McMullen, JM Smucker
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Webinar: Interdisciplinary Creation, Generative Design, and Effective Human/Machine Teams with Mickey McManus, BCG Group
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May 19, 2022 |
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Webinar: The Tools Diverse R&D Teams need to Innovate Effectively with Corinne Post, Villanova School of Business
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May 12, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Data, Innovation, and R&D with Sharon Feng, PPG
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Webinar: Students, Teachers, Industry, and Diversity with Elaine Franklin and Mark Townley, Kenan Fellows Program
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Webinar: Homegrown Virtual Testing and Data Analytics with Bob Wilkinson and Allison Rajakumar, Lubrizol
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Inclusion, Innovation and One Young World with Bernardita Chirino Chace, Novartis
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization and R&D in Petcare with Mark Donavon, Nestle Purina Petcare
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Diversity and Innovation with Janeen Uzzell, National Society of Black Engineers
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Thought Leader Interview: nnovation Purpose and Focus with Moises Norena, MiTek Modular
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Webinar: Digital Transformation Efforts with Lauren Beckstedt and Mike Adams, Brunswick
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Thought Leader Interview: Digital Transformation Strategy, Managing Change, and Data Governance with Jeff Cope, RTI
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Webinar: Building Trust and Digital Leadership: Interview with Paul Mugge, NC State University and Haroon Abbu, Bell & Howell
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Sep 22, 2021 |