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Innovation Ahead by IRI — 108 episodes
IS 26 Session: 2025 Maurice Holland Award Winner Address
IS 26 Session: Interactive Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future
IS 26 Session: Powering Growth Through Open and Co-Innovation
IS 26 Session: Cross-functional Innovation EMD’s Microphysiological Systems Project
IS 26 Session: Harnessing AI for Real World Impact
IS 26 Session: Innovating Inside and Outside the Core
IS 26 Session: Driving the Innovation Pipeline for Impact
IS 26 Session: Forces Shaping the Next Era
Thought Leader Interview: AI at the Frontier of Scientific Innovation: From Algorithms in Nature to Digitizing Smell
Thought Leader Interview: Innovating Through University Partnerships: Hollister’s Journey to Strategic Collaboration
ITF 25 Session: Pulling into Port: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward
ITF 25 Session: Preparing Your New Value Chain
ITF 25 Session: Exploring New Lands: Breaking Down Industry Boundaries and Building New Value Chains
ITF 25 Session: Strategic Approaches to Resiliency in Uncertain Times
ITF 25 Session: Keeping the Ship in Order: Sustainability and Supply Chains Today
ITF 25 Session: How to Build the Workforce of the Future
ITF 25 Session: Preparing the Crew: Planning Your Future Workforce in the Age of AI
ITF 25 Session: Spotting Rough Seas – and How You’ll Get Through Them
ITF 25 Session: Taking the Helm: From Stuck to Scale: The New Playbook for Corporate Innovation
Thought Leader Interview: Beyond the AI Pilot: Three Trends R&D Leaders Must Know to Prepare for 2026
Thought Leader Interview: Breaking Through the Valley of Death: A Practical Guide for R&D Leaders on Turning Technical Success into Commercial Reality
Thought Leader Interview: Managing Substances of Concern: A Smarter Approach to Sustainable Innovation
Thought Leader Interview: Accelerating Product Development: The Industrial Shift to AI/ML-Driven Formulation
Thought Leader Interview: Co-Innovation at the Edge: Powering AI-Driven Data Centers Through Trust and Partnership
Webinar: Reinventing R&D Knowledge Access & Management with AI
IS 2025 Session: DARPA’s Breakthrough R&D in Materials and Manufacturing
IS 2025 Session: Transforming Waste into Wealth
2024 Maurice Holland Award Winner Address: Rhetorical or Genuine Slack Time? Temporal Attributes, Barriers, and Outcomes of Slack Time
IS 2025 Session: Innovating in a Sustainable World
IS 2025 Session: Facilitated Session: Anticipating Innovation Challenges for the Future
IS 2025 Session: The Regulatory Landscape: Current State and Potential Challenges
IS 2025 Session: Transformational Innovation: From Vision to Value
IS 2025 Session: The ROI of Bold Ideas: Fueling the Innovation Pipeline
Webinar: Launch It Forward: An Entrepreneurial Path for Corporate Leaders to Commercialize Technologies
Webinar: Navigating Extended Producer Responsibility: What’s Changing and What You Need to Know
Webinar: Transforming R&D: How Generative AI is Reshaping Innovation
Webinar: Navigating AI Risks: Tackling Nefarious Uses and Emerging Threats
Thought Leader Interview: Driving Circularity: A Thought Leader Interview with Brent Bell on the Future of Recycling
Webinar: Unlocking Innovation: How Milliken’s R&D Digitized Lab Notebooks for Improved Knowledge Access
Thought Leader Interview: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability: Insights from PPG’s Ed Rakiewicz
Webinar: Mastering AI in R&D: Setting Expectations and Achieving Milestones
Webinar: Greenwashing: Navigating Corporate Sustainability
Report: Driving Innovation through Customer Insights: The Novonesis Approach to Collaborative Product Development
Bite-Sized Insights: Generative AI Update from Iria Giuffrida
Report: Innovative Upskilling: How Eastman and A. O. Smith Are Shaping Workforce Development
Thought Leader Interview: Legal Implications of Generative AI Update with Iria Giuffrida
Thought Leader Interview: Lora Cecere, founder, Supply Chain Insights
Report: Innovative Roadmapping: Strategic Planning Insights Featuring Campbell Soup Company
IS 2024 Session: How will regulations around PFAS and other ESG issues impact you?
IS 2024 Session: Sustainability and the Innovation Pipeline at Honeywell
IS 2024 Session: Increasing Speed and Agility through Digitalization and AI
IS 2024 Session: Quantifying and Generating Value through R&D and Innovation at Lubrizol
IS 2024 Session: Integrating Sustainability Goals into Innovation with Henkel and AZEK
Webinar: Sustainability Regulations: EU Deep Dive
Report: How Caterpillar's Trailblazing Approach Revolutionized Knowledge Management and Transfer
Webinar: Enabling Data-driven Decision-making
Thought Leader Interview: How Milliken eliminated PFAS from its operations with Jeff Strahan, Director of Research Compliance and Sustainability
Report: The Challenge of Horizon 2: Implications for effective opportunity development
Thought Leader Interview: AI in Science with Rebecca Willett, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago
Thought Leader Interview: Telling BASF’s Sustainability Story with Luiziana Ribeiro, Director of Sustainability, BASF
Thought Leader Interview: AI Use Cases at INVISTA with Chitra Kumar Sai, Data Scientist, INVISTA
IS 2023 Session: Finding the right innovation and R&D structure to meet strategic needs
Thought Leader Interview: Raising Sustainability to New Heights at Boeing with Sheila Remes, Vice President, Environmental Sustainability, at The Boeing Company
Thought Leader Interview: How Milliken removed PFAS from its operations with Jeff Strahan, Director of Research, Compliance, and Sustainability at Milliken & Company
Thought Leader Interview: Staying at the bleeding edge of digital innovation with Brian Standen, Global Head of Digital Innovation at BASF
Thought Leader Interview: Smart Glasses: Balancing expectations and reality with Dan Abramowicz, CTO, and Alberto Rodriguez, Digital Optimization Team Leader at Crown Holdings, Inc.
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
Thought Leader Interview: Legal implications of AI: What innovators need to know with Iria Giuffrida, William & Mary Law School
Thought Leader Interview: Building muscle memory with a year dedicated to sustainability with Anantha Desikan, ICL
Thought Leader Interview: Moving beyond water cooler conversations with Pete Weddington, Owens Corning
Thought Leader Interview: Consumer-driven Sustainability with Jerry Porter, Procter & Gamble
Thought Leader Interview: A Top Down and Bottom Up Approach to Sustainability with Jami Haaning and Wojtek Osowiecki, Lam Research
Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization from manufacturing to customer experience with Sam Immordino and Lou Stocco, USG
Thought Leader Interview: Value Creation and Risk Management with Rebecca Ott, J.M. Smucker
Thought Leader Interview: Packaging Sustainability and Technology with Laura Buen Abad, Sonoco
Thought Leader Interview: Cybersecurity with Rod Masney, O-I Glass
Thought Leader Interview: Sustainability and Innovation with Rick Michelman, Michelman
Thought Leader Interview: AR and Innovation with Terri Griffith, Simon Fraser University and Dave Alpert, GeoPogo AR+
Thought Leader Interview: ADHD and Entrepreneurship with Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University
Webinar: Digital Twins and Their Capabilites with Don Kinard, Lockheed Martin
Webinar: How Veterans’ Experience Can Best Serve in Industry Roles with with Sean Bruce (Hess) and Perezam Takouda (Cargill)
Webinar: How to Increase Diversity in Industry and Academic with Brennon Marcano, GEM Fellows Program
Thought Leader Interview: Innovative Thinker and Disrupter Identification with William Green, University of Birmingham, UK
Thought Leader Interview: Neurodiversity and Innovation with Dave Caudel, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
Thought Leader Interview: Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems with Randall Wright, MIT
Thought Leader Interview: Diversity, Culture, and Inequality Research with Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers
Thought Leader Interview: Augmented Reality Thought Leader Interview with John Simmins, Alfred University
Webinar: LGTBQ+ Employee Resource Group Creation with Carolyn McMullen, JM Smucker
Webinar: Interdisciplinary Creation, Generative Design, and Effective Human/Machine Teams with Mickey McManus, BCG Group
Webinar: The Tools Diverse R&D Teams need to Innovate Effectively with Corinne Post, Villanova School of Business
Thought Leader Interview: Data, Innovation, and R&D with Sharon Feng, PPG
Webinar: Students, Teachers, Industry, and Diversity with Elaine Franklin and Mark Townley, Kenan Fellows Program
Webinar: Homegrown Virtual Testing and Data Analytics with Bob Wilkinson and Allison Rajakumar, Lubrizol
Thought Leader Interview: Inclusion, Innovation and One Young World with Bernardita Chirino Chace, Novartis
Thought Leader Interview: Digitalization and R&D in Petcare with Mark Donavon, Nestle Purina Petcare
Thought Leader Interview: Diversity and Innovation with Janeen Uzzell, National Society of Black Engineers
Thought Leader Interview: nnovation Purpose and Focus with Moises Norena, MiTek Modular
Webinar: Digital Transformation Efforts with Lauren Beckstedt and Mike Adams, Brunswick
Thought Leader Interview: Digital Transformation Strategy, Managing Change, and Data Governance with Jeff Cope, RTI
Webinar: Building Trust and Digital Leadership: Interview with Paul Mugge, NC State University and Haroon Abbu, Bell & Howell
Webinar: The Partnership Between R&D and IT with Craig Slavtcheff and Francisco Fraga, Campbell Soup Company
Thought Leader Interview: Humanity-Centric Innovation and Digital Transformation with Pete Dulcamara, Kimberly-Clark
Webinar: Digitalization, Enterprise Architecture, and Lean with Alyssa Mueller and Sean Bruce, Hess
Webinar: Covid19 and Hospitals: How Digital Tools Expanded the Reach of Healthcare with Serban Cantacuzene & Athanasios Kontopoulos, Air Liquide
Thought Leader Interview: Spark Digital Strategy and Digital Teams with Bernardo Tiburcio, DuPont
Thought Leader Interview: Cyber Security Digitalization with Jaap deVries, FM Global
Thought Leader Interview: ROI of Digitalization with Bryan Merckling and Cliff Tironi, Thinaer
Thought Leader Interview: Digital Alchemy to Create Value and Reduce Risk with Shah Karim, CEO SafeRock