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Innovation Ahead by IRI — 108 episodes

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IS 26 Session: 2025 Maurice Holland Award Winner Address

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IS 26 Session: Interactive Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future

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IS 26 Session: Powering Growth Through Open and Co-Innovation

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IS 26 Session: Cross-functional Innovation EMD’s Microphysiological Systems Project

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IS 26 Session: Harnessing AI for Real World Impact

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IS 26 Session: Innovating Inside and Outside the Core

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IS 26 Session: Driving the Innovation Pipeline for Impact

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IS 26 Session: Forces Shaping the Next Era

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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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Thought Leader Interview: Innovating Through University Partnerships: Hollister’s Journey to Strategic Collaboration

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ITF 25 Session: Pulling into Port: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward

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ITF 25 Session: Preparing Your New Value Chain

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ITF 25 Session: Exploring New Lands: Breaking Down Industry Boundaries and Building New Value Chains

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ITF 25 Session: Strategic Approaches to Resiliency in Uncertain Times

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ITF 25 Session: Keeping the Ship in Order: Sustainability and Supply Chains Today

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ITF 25 Session: How to Build the Workforce of the Future

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ITF 25 Session: Preparing the Crew: Planning Your Future Workforce in the Age of AI

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ITF 25 Session: Spotting Rough Seas – and How You’ll Get Through Them

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ITF 25 Session: Taking the Helm: From Stuck to Scale: The New Playbook for Corporate Innovation

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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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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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Thought Leader Interview: Managing Substances of Concern: A Smarter Approach to Sustainable Innovation

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Thought Leader Interview: Accelerating Product Development: The Industrial Shift to AI/ML-Driven Formulation

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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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Webinar: Reinventing R&D Knowledge Access & Management with AI

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IS 2025 Session: DARPA’s Breakthrough R&D in Materials and Manufacturing

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IS 2025 Session: Transforming ​Waste into Wealth

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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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IS 2025 Session: Innovating in a Sustainable World

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IS 2025 Session: Facilitated Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future

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IS 2025 Session: The Regulatory Landscape: Current State and Potential Challenges

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IS 2025 Session: Transformational Innovation: From Vision to Value

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IS 2025 Session: The ROI of Bold Ideas: Fueling the Innovation Pipeline

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Webinar: Launch It Forward: An Entrepreneurial Path for Corporate Leaders to Commercialize Technologies

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Webinar: Navigating Extended Producer Responsibility: What’s Changing and What You Need to Know

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Webinar: Transforming R&D: How Generative AI is Reshaping Innovation

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Webinar: Navigating AI Risks: Tackling Nefarious Uses and Emerging Threats

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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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Webinar: Unlocking Innovation: How Milliken’s R&D Digitized Lab Notebooks for Improved Knowledge Access

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Thought Leader Interview: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability: Insights from PPG’s Ed Rakiewicz

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Webinar: Mastering AI in R&D: Setting Expectations and Achieving Milestones

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Webinar: Greenwashing: Navigating Corporate Sustainability

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Report: Driving Innovation through Customer Insights: The Novonesis Approach to Collaborative Product Development

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Bite-Sized Insights: Generative AI Update from Iria Giuffrida

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Report: Innovative Upskilling: How Eastman and A. O. Smith Are Shaping Workforce Development

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Thought Leader Interview: Legal Implications of Generative AI Update with Iria Giuffrida

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Thought Leader Interview: Lora Cecere, founder, Supply Chain Insights

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Report: Innovative Roadmapping: Strategic Planning Insights Featuring Campbell Soup Company

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IS 2024 Session: How will regulations around PFAS and other ESG issues impact you?

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IS 2024 Session: Sustainability and the Innovation Pipeline at Honeywell

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IS 2024 Session: Increasing Speed and Agility through Digitalization and AI

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IS 2024 Session: Quantifying and Generating Value through R&D and Innovation at Lubrizol

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IS 2024 Session: Integrating Sustainability Goals into Innovation with Henkel and AZEK

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Webinar: Sustainability Regulations: EU Deep Dive

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Report: How Caterpillar's Trailblazing Approach Revolutionized Knowledge Management and Transfer

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Webinar: Enabling Data-driven Decision-making

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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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Report: The Challenge of Horizon 2: Implications for effective opportunity development

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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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Thought Leader Interview: Telling BASF’s Sustainability Story with Luiziana Ribeiro, Director of Sustainability, BASF

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Thought Leader Interview: AI Use Cases at INVISTA with Chitra Kumar Sai, Data Scientist, INVISTA

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IS 2023 Session: Finding the right innovation and R&D structure to meet strategic needs

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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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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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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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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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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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Thought Leader Interview: Legal implications of AI: What innovators need to know with Iria Giuffrida, William & Mary Law School

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Thought Leader Interview: Building muscle memory with a year dedicated to sustainability with Anantha Desikan, ICL

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Thought Leader Interview: Moving beyond water cooler conversations with Pete Weddington, Owens Corning

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Thought Leader Interview: Consumer-driven Sustainability with Jerry Porter, Procter & Gamble

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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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Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization from manufacturing to customer experience with Sam Immordino and Lou Stocco, USG

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Thought Leader Interview: Value Creation and Risk Management with Rebecca Ott, J.M. Smucker

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Thought Leader Interview: Packaging Sustainability and Technology with Laura Buen Abad, Sonoco

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Thought Leader Interview: Cybersecurity with Rod Masney, O-I Glass

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Thought Leader Interview: Sustainability and Innovation with Rick Michelman, Michelman

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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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Thought Leader Interview: ADHD and Entrepreneurship with Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University

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Webinar: Digital Twins and Their Capabilites with Don Kinard, Lockheed Martin

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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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Webinar: How to Increase Diversity in Industry and Academic with Brennon Marcano, GEM Fellows Program

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Thought Leader Interview: Innovative Thinker and Disrupter Identification with William Green, University of Birmingham, UK

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Thought Leader Interview: Neurodiversity and Innovation with Dave Caudel, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation

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Thought Leader Interview: Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems with Randall Wright, MIT

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Thought Leader Interview: Diversity, Culture, and Inequality Research with Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers

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Thought Leader Interview: Augmented Reality Thought Leader Interview with John Simmins, Alfred University

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Webinar: LGTBQ+ Employee Resource Group Creation with Carolyn McMullen, JM Smucker

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Webinar: Interdisciplinary Creation, Generative Design, and Effective Human/Machine Teams with Mickey McManus, BCG Group

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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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Thought Leader Interview: Data, Innovation, and R&D with Sharon Feng, PPG

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Webinar: Students, Teachers, Industry, and Diversity with Elaine Franklin and Mark Townley, Kenan Fellows Program

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Webinar: Homegrown Virtual Testing and Data Analytics with Bob Wilkinson and Allison Rajakumar, Lubrizol

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Thought Leader Interview: Inclusion, Innovation and One Young World with Bernardita Chirino Chace, Novartis

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Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization and R&D in Petcare with Mark Donavon, Nestle Purina Petcare

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Thought Leader Interview: Diversity and Innovation with Janeen Uzzell, National Society of Black Engineers

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Thought Leader Interview: nnovation Purpose and Focus with Moises Norena, MiTek Modular

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Webinar: Digital Transformation Efforts with Lauren Beckstedt and Mike Adams, Brunswick

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Thought Leader Interview: Digital Transformation Strategy, Managing Change, and Data Governance with Jeff Cope, RTI

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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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Webinar: The Partnership Between R&D and IT with Craig Slavtcheff and Francisco Fraga, Campbell Soup Company

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Thought Leader Interview: Humanity-Centric Innovation and Digital Transformation with Pete Dulcamara, Kimberly-Clark

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Webinar: Digitalization, Enterprise Architecture, and Lean with Alyssa Mueller and Sean Bruce, Hess

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Webinar: Covid19 and Hospitals: How Digital Tools Expanded the Reach of Healthcare with Serban Cantacuzene & Athanasios Kontopoulos, Air Liquide

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Thought Leader Interview: Spark Digital Strategy and Digital Teams with Bernardo Tiburcio, DuPont

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Thought Leader Interview: Cyber Security Digitalization with Jaap deVries, FM Global

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Thought Leader Interview: ROI of Digitalization with Bryan Merckling and Cliff Tironi, Thinaer

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Thought Leader Interview: Digital Alchemy to Create Value and Reduce Risk with Shah Karim, CEO SafeRock