For over 47 years, Nottingham Spirk’s innovation consulting and product design has developed hundreds of patented products that have generated over $50 billion in sales for industry leading businesses and fast-growth entrepreneurial firms.
Our business innovation and product design firm offers a full-service vertical innovation process, from research to product design to prototyping to consumer testing. All development is conducted at our historic 60,000 square foot Innovation Center, ensuring efficiency, confidentiality and intellectual property protection.
The Goal Of The Event
Our aim is to connect you with best practices in today’s rapidly changing environment. The unique value we offer you is to make an agenda which is relevant to change and to the change makers responsible for future trends of innovation development and growth.
Points of Discussion
- What are the current cultural challenges and opportunities for innovation within your organisation?
- How to design a more seamless innovation project that engages all stakeholders
- How to collaborate more effectively across teams on your innovation journey
- How to support your innovation team more effectively through better communication and motivation
- Pinpoint ways to better integrate innovation across the whole organisation
- Identify ways that different sectors learn from one another during the innovation process
Who Could You Meet
20+
Cross Industry Leading Speakers
100+
Senior Level Attendees
85:15
Corporate : Companies
Solution Providers
Why a Summit?
Technology is transforming the way we do business. Innovation requires new ways of thinking about our products, our business and our partners. The goal of this summit is to facilitate dialogue between innovation executives involved in product development, R&D, business development and marketing to find where does innovation belong in a digital environment, where many new approaches are being driven not by companies themselves, but by technological development.
It’s all about the EXPERIENCE!
- A chance to meet world innovation leaders – from start-ups to mature projects at the forefront of their success
- Cross sector learning – find out how solutions adopted by other sectors can add value to your business; What can you learn from other industries and vertical sectors? What can innovators learn from marketing and R&D and vice versa?
- Save time and money – concentrated industry knowledge in two intensive days
- Case studies – listen to case studies outlining the pros and cons of new and existing projects
- Networking and interactive sessions – Learn from your peers and build new relationships in our break out and networking sessions
- Discussion groups – industry-specific roundtable discussions for you to focus on the key issues that affect your business
- Reinvigorate your business with fresh ideas, meet industry pioneers and discover how to deliver breakthrough results
- Interactive Mobile Event App
- Networking Drinks Reception
Event Speakers
Robert Bornhofen
Manager of Innovation,Southwest Airlines
United States
Karen Stanton
Director Global Marketing & Branding,IFF
United States
Mick Simonelli
Innovation Board Member,University of Notre Dame
United States
Bror Salmelin
Advisor, Innovation Systems,European Commission
Belgium
Girish Jandhyala
Global Lean Manager,Volvo Group North America
United States
Kimberly Moorehead
SVP Strategy, Innovation and Research,AARP Services Inc
United States
Shaune Kolber
Programmatic Creative & Ad Fraud Manager,Dell
United States
Dave Brussee
Director, Business Development,SCA
United States
Andrew Downard
COO & Principal, Market Strategy LLC,ButterFLi Technologies
United States
Danielle Galmore
Director, New Business Innovation,Bold Group
United States
Katherine von Jan
Managing Director Strategic Innovation,Salesforce
United States
Sebastian Quinn
Digital Marketing Director,Hard Rock International
United States
Bill Nottingham
Vice President,Nottingham Spirk
United States
Peter Barschdorff
Vice President Business Insights,Bayer
United States
Event Sponsors
Ezassi is an industry leader and first in the area of open innovation management software. Beginning in 2004, Ezassi started the innovation journey through invention. With several inventions under the Ezassi umbrella the identification of the open innovation software need developed and transformed into what it is today — a powerful, unique and flexible open innovation management software product.
Enrich was born out of a restless desire to help companies do more—create more game-changing technology, develop more life-saving drugs, find more opportunity. For our clients, we build transparency into the decisions that drive their business forward.