While a research unit is critical to the success of the organization, efforts dedicated to R&D process improvements can be challenging. High costs and long time scales coupled with difficulties in anticipating changing market and customer needs, put pressure on R&D groups to perform. A holistic and integrated approach to both product development and innovation within R&D process is a strategic imperative. Our meeting facilitates hands-on experience sharing of rapid techniques and lean methodologies to ensure greater R&D efficiency and speed to market.
08:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 Opening Address from the Chairman
09:10 The role of R&D in Business Excellence. The ultimate tool to find the optimal balance among product development, customer experience and process optimization.
Filippo Larceri,
Global Implementation Leader - Clariant Excellence, Clariant, Munich, Germany
09:40 Speed Networking
10:10 Workshop: Culture change to support R&D transformation towards radical innovation.
R&D organizations are often well aligned to deliver on budget and in time for incremental innovation, exploiting near term business opportunities with relatively low risk. The culture needed to support such an organization is often prohibiting the exploration of completely new and radical innovation.
We in GE embed entrepreneurial best practices into our R&D management discipline, a test & learn mind-set to transform the way we work.
We will propose cutting-edge approaches to radical innovation and invite discussion for what culture change is required, what experiences the audience can share and how best can we manage both exploitation & exploration that is needed to be successful in a rapidly growing economy with increasing uncertainty.
Dr. Dirk Voelkel,
General Manager Innovation, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, SE, Uppsala, Sweden
Paul Michael,
FastWorks & DFSS Leader Life Sciences, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, UK, Cardiff, United Kingdom
11:10 Morning coffee and networking break
11:40 How Open Innovation can bring flexibility and shorten time to market in Multi-National Companies.
Dr. Walid Benzarti,
Director for Innovation, Research & Technology, Land and Air Systems Global Business Unit, Thales Group, Paris, France
12:20 Turning digital strategy into reality: The Smart Salon concept.
Dr. Thomas Förster,
Corporate Vice President of R&D Beauty Care, Henkel, Cologne, Germany
12:40 Business lunch
13:40 R&D transformation: Re-fuelling the product innovation engine through innovation accelerator program.
Asli Solmaz-Kaiser,
Vice President, Product Development & Innovation., TÜV SÜD Product Service, Munich, Germany
14:10 Managing Innovation across the full pipeline: From Acquisition to editing and distribution of Immersive Content.
Gaël Seydoux,
Research & Innovation Director, Technicolor, Rennes, France
14:40 Afternoon coffee and networking break
15:10 Giving gut a face – How to enable informed technology platform portfolio management.
Larger corporations face the problem not knowing what their technology base really is. The portfolio management decisions are therefore based on “gut feeling” of the senior people in the organization. The application of digital solutions and machine learning can enable better overview of the technology landscape of large global organizations and facilitate collaboration across business sectors and geographies. It can automate data collection and generate a software solution that connects the technology platforms to e.g. finance, market, literature and patent data. The presentation will showcase how Merck has implemented a solution enabling R&D to better and faster deliver on projects, scouts to find the right experts to evaluate technologies and strategists to make better decisions. And ultimately to make technology platform management data based.
Dr. Christoph Hüls,
Head of Merck Group Innovation Strategy, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
15:40 R&D portfolio management in practice – the Borealis way.
As leading innovator in the Polyolefins space, Borealis’ employees and partners have many more ideas than we can handle.
Dr. Maurits van Tol,
Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, Borealis Group, Linz, Austria
16:10 Delivering global R&D insight through digital transformation.
Graham Sanger,
Head of Business Development, ID Business Solutions Ltd., Guildford, United Kingdom
16:30 Panel Discussion
17:00 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day one
18:30 Business dinner
08:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 Opening Address from the Chairman
09:10 Roadmap to the environmental sustainability and profitable production in the reheating furnaces for the hot rolling mills.
Massimiliano Fantuzzi,
R&D Manager, Tenova, Genova, Italy
09:40 Managing breakthrough innovation from idea to the mass-market adoption.
Dr. Eng. Grzegorz Ombach,
VP Engineering & GM Halo China, QUALCOMM, Munich, Germany
10:10 Morning coffee and networking break
10:40 Customer Research: Unlocking the power of customer value.
Ana Esteban,
Team Manager Customer Research, Digital Workplace R&D, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe, Hannover, Germany
11:10 New Agile approach within Open Innovation practices; Transformational Impact on R&D Centers.
Learning outcomes: attendees can expect to better avoid pitfalls and how to invest in personal relationships (and with whom) to make collaboration work in an "open innovation" setting.
Florin Paun,
Founder, Agilising Innovation, Paris, France
11:40 Collaborative Innovation at a specialty chemicals company.
Learning outcomes: attendees can expect to better avoid pitfalls and how to invest in personal relationships (and with whom) to make collaboration work in an "open innovation" setting.
Dr. Reza Ghahary,
Director Innovation Networks, Corporate Innovation, Evonik, Hanau, Germany
12:10 Business lunch
13:10 Leveraging multiple open Innovation instruments. Metrics for monitoring OI efforts.
Alice de Casanove,
Innovation Culture Lead, Airbus Defence and Space, Toulouse, France
13:40 R&D for emerging markets - the perspective of the lighting industry, academia and start-ups.
Dr. Laszlo Balazs,
Founder, Research Link Consulting Ltd., Hungary
14:10 Afternoon coffee and networking break
14:40 The power of collaboration.
Ralf Neubert,
Senior Director Innovation & Technology, Schneider Electric Industry Business Unit, Schneider Electric, Würzburg, Germany
15:10 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of summit
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chaired a panel discussion on the digitisation of clinical trials and next gen injectable devices, with speakers from Novartis, Roche, Janssen, Sanofi, SHL Group and Corvus Device.
