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This year's program format will include inspiring keynote presentations, how-to case studies, facilitated Q&A and group learning sessions as well as multiple venues to network and assemble your own open innovation network for future learning and collaboration.

Attend CoDev and You Will Learn:

  1. How to adapt and evolve open innovation business models to create win-win propositions.

  2. How to connect with the right partners to help you build and strengthen your organization's open innovation capabilities.

  3. Avery Dennison's approach to expanding its open innovation capabilities -- focusing on the right people, partners and processes and key metrics to track the impact of open innovation activities.

  4. General Mills' X3 Process for guiding project teams to select the right approach for engaging and vetting external solution providers.

  5. The tools and processes Mars Inc. uses to test whether potential partners can fulfill the critical parameters (scope, resources, ROI structure, relationship and boundaries) necessary to deliver a win-win partnership.

  6. Pepsico's approach to partner engagement - key strategies to maximize the return of your investment, select the right partners and avoid common mistakes.

  7. The practical challenges of building global open innovation networks and how leading companies are addressing and overcoming these obstacles.

  8. How Clorox increases the acceptance rate of external innovation submissions; the critical role of internal cross-functional innovation teams.

  9. The competitive advantage that companies like Apple and IBM have achieved through "strategic openness"; the selective opening of a firm's control of its technology, innovations and other outputs to catapult innovation.

  10. Cross-industry strategies for managing IP in complex deal structures; specifically, how to own and share IP in co-development relationships in ways that incentivize the parties.

  11. Hershey's approach to structuring and negotiating complex deals - tools used to evaluate deals and make quick go/no go decisions.

  12. How to shift and evolve your company culture to drive higher value deals
    Siemens' use of crowdsourcing methodology in both internal and external innovation ecosystems to drive its open innovation culture.

  13. Identifying and implementing metrics for open innovation success.

  14. AOL's successful efforts at leveraging social media to create value exchange with consumers - opening the channels for co-development with consumers.

  15. How Kraft Foods achieved a highly successful pipeline of consumer preferred products by striking the right balance of internal innovation efforts and open innovation partnerships.

 


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TESTIMONIALS

CoDev provides an unparalleled opportunity to meet and learn from Open Innovation professionals and establish relationships that could make your company more successful in leveraging OI for business success.
Joan Isman, Kraft Foods

The information presented in this conference is vital to fueling the continuing drive for open innovation in our business.  Knowing how this is effectively carried out in each business is very helpful to me.
Brett Sareyka, Wave

This is my third time attending. I am never disappointed!  There are always significant learnings that I an apply to the ever evolving innovation system in Alberta.  I always learn so much at these events!
Connie Phillips, Alberta Agriculture, Rural Development

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