December 21, 2020
Looking forward to next year? Who isn’t! The guiding principle for IRI in 2021, we will be operating as a virtual organization. We will deliver exceptional value, including networking, research, and...
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Wednesday April 01, 2020 1:00pm – Thursday April 02, 2020 3:00pm
Highly acclaimed program exclusively for technology leaders gives your high potential innovation managers the skills to make more effective strategic decisions. In partnership with Kellogg.
Monday October 29, 2018 2:00pm – Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00pm
The topic of both 2018 CTO Forums is Digital Transformation - the progress of digital usage beyond simply supporting and enhancing traditional methods to inherently enabling new types of innovation,...
Wednesday March 17, 2021 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Business model innovation is difficult, but it is essential to capturing value from many innovations, especially as value migrates to digital business models. It is hard, however, to know where to...
Can you measure how the rest of the company feels about open innovation? As a company’s OI activities progress from entirely informal to having an established program and/or function to having an OI...
IRI is home to a worldwide network of cross-industry leaders interested in driving innovation and new growth -- representing small specialty companies, large global corporations, government labs, and...
January 23, 2018
Innovation Leaders Network Spring 2018 Networks Conference March 5-6, 2017 Brown Palace Hotel & Spa 321 17 th Street, Denver, CO 80202 Monday, March 5 7:30 am – 8:00 am Brown Palace Club...
January 23, 2018
New Business Development Network Spring 2018 Networks Conference March 5-7, 2017 Brown Palace Hotel & Spa 321 17 th Street, Denver, CO 80202 Monday, March 5 7:30 am – 8:00 am Brown Palace Club...
April 17, 2018
Discussion Summary What measures are organizations implementing to recruit and retain top talent? Recruiting from universities Even as an organization’s recruiting focus shifts, it should maintain a...
How do you report technical information? We would like to improve upon our existing methods of reporting technical information. To help with this aim, we would like to know current thinking and best...
How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
1. Purpose and Basis for these Principles The Innovation Research Interchange (hereinafter IRI) has adopted and implemented Participation Principles to govern the use of its intellectual property...
How do you handle IP when collaborating with universities? How do organizations work through the complexities of IP ownership when collaborating with universities in an open innovation environment?...
May 01, 2019
The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in real trouble. —...
Thursday October 05, 2017 – Friday October 06, 2017
Keynote on The Future and Impact of AI on R&D features panelists from IBM Watson Research, Pepsico, John Deere, and more.
September 08, 2020
It is highly unlikely that food is a source of Covid-19 contamination, experts say A team of experts on food contamination says it is highly unlikely that food is a source of Covid-19 transmission...