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Accelerating your Innovation Outcomes

Jon Fredrickson
Vice President of Sales
Innocentive

Global firms and Government agencies are discovering that open and broad collaboration is more critical than ever as a competitive advantage for their enterprise. Open Innovation is being targeted as one of the key focus areas for companies looking to extend Tech Scouting and idea generation into real solutions that create competitive advantage. Hear how NASA has solved problems that have existed for decades, hear how Open Innovation can extend into tech scouting organizations to extend the reach of these critical organizations. Lastly, discover how engaging employees, suppliers and innovators from around the world have delivered over 150% ROI to companies employing Challenge Driven Innovation methodologies.

Jon is an accomplished innovation executive and hands-on practitioner with InnoCentive, the industry pioneer of Challenge-Driven Innovation. For nearly 30 years, Jon has led teams in building new businesses and business practices within Fortune 1000 companies and public sector agencies. He has worked with executive teams across the globe to deliver leading innovation initiatives that drive actionable results.

In his current role, Jon focuses on accelerating the pace of innovation for commercial and public sector organizations by helping them to leverage proven methodologies for innovation. InnoCentive's Challenge-Driven Innovation Methodology is foundational to creating rapid and disruptive innovation capabilities that enhance corporate strategy, product lifecycle management, and revenue growth. InnoCentive's innovation platform provides the most complete solution for global organizations to rapidly innovate without the traditional risks of R&D failure. Jon is a recognized speaker at global innovation forums and guest lecturer at several leading business schools including MIT Sloan and Northwestern Kellogg.

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Who Should Attend

This event typically draws 250+ Chief Technology Officers; Vice Presidents, Managers, and Directors of Open Innovation, Innovation, Product Development, R&D, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more from a cross section of industries including aerospace, medical devices, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, biotech, oil & gas, electronics, hi-tech, defense and more.

TESTIMONIALS

"I have been to this event 3 years in a row now. I always take away a number of ideas that will impact my open innovation organization. The networking, new ideas and case presentations are enlightening and refreshing."
Jennifer Dugan, Nestlé

"My first attendance at CoDev, I found a very supportive group of allied professionals willing to share and help in making collaboration work. I have lots of live leads, 50 new contacts and tons of ideas to apply!
Jon Hague, Unilever