The Front End of Innovation Conference

The Front End of Innovation Conference has featured a a number of thought leaders in innovation over the past few years. These summaries include presentations by most of the keynote speakers and several track presenters. 

Front End of Innovation USA 2008

Front End of Innovation Europe 2008

Front End of Innovation 2007

Front End of Innovation 2006


Deborah Ancona: X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Execute

Janine Benyus and Gunter Pauli: Inspiration for Innovation: Learning from Nature

Kjell Bergström: Green Innovation & BioPower

Mark F. Buckley: Sustainability at Staples/Values that Move Us

Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft and Author 

Clayton Christensen, Creating Products That Do the Job

Clayton Christensen: Methods for Developing New Products That Customers Predictably Will Buy

Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley

Peter Diamandis, M.D., X Prize Foundation

Dieter Geppert: Global Innovation - Bridging Cultural Differences

Michael Giersch: Organizing for Success in High-Growth Emerging Opportunities

Vijay Govindarajan, Professor, Dartmouth College

 

Mike HatrickGiving People Wings - Innovation Cultural Transformation

Michael Heiss: Balanced Innovation management and Its Global Implementation

Charles Jones and David Swift, Whirlpool North America

Terry Jones, Innovation in a Wired World

Dean Kamen: FIRST Robots

Peter Koen: Best of The Best: Learn Top Quartile Practices in The Front End

Claudia Kotchka, Design Evangelist, Proctor & Gamble

A.G. Lafley: The Art and Science of Game-Changing Innovation

Renee Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy

Dustan E. McCoy, Brunswick Corporation

Ray Kurzweil: The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century

Gary Loveman, CEO, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.

Simon Minderhoud: Philips Front End Innovation Processes

Gunter Pauli & Janine Benyus: Inspiration for Innovation: Learning from Nature

Guido Petit, Director of Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy, Alcatel-Lucent

Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, SpaceShipOne

Rob Shelton: Develop Breakthrough Innovation Capabilities

Robin Spencer: Idea Management as and Enabler of the "Pull" Business Model

Evan Schwartz, Burt Rutan, Rodney Brooks, The Inventors Forum

Rob Spencer, Pfizer Global Research & Development

David Swift & Charles Jones, Whirlpool North America

Eric Von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

Simon Woodroffe: Using Innovation to Win New Markets

David Wootton: Giving People Wings - Innovation Cultural Transformation