Event - INNOVA-CON 2014 Conference

INNOVA-CON 2014 will take place on January 14-15, 2014 in Brooklyn, New York. The first conference by the International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) featuring world-class innovation experts. The INNOVA-CON is a great opportunity to meet in person and connect with luminaries in the innovation profession. Content will focus on how to use strategies and methods of innovation to create value.

IAOIP is a professional membership organization that is the world’s only independent innovation certification body, providing members with the knowledge, skills and opportunities to deliver real change in their industry or field.

IAOIP certified innovation professionals are equipped with the appropriate tools to make a strategic difference by becoming an active participant in innovation teams at all levels of their organization through knowledge exchange, research, conferences, training and publications.

With individual, corporate, public and non-profit members around the world, IAOIP is the leading international membership-based organization dedicated to the professional development of individuals working in the field of innovation.

Their mission is to organize and advance innovation through the development of a catalog of innovation skills and capabilities as well as certifications to demonstrate mastery of that “Body of Knowledge.” Working groups are organized to create the base and advanced innovation certification requirements and assure our certified members and organizations are global leaders in practicing and managing innovation

Subjects and Speakers

Process, Practice and innovation – Michael Grieves
Research Professor, Florida Institute of Technology

The History of Innovation – H. James Harrington
CEO, Harrington Institute

Predictable Innovation: From “fail fast” to “succeed Sooner” – Michael Raynor
Managing Director, Global Innovation Practice, Deloitte

Business model innovation – Saul Kaplan
Founder and Chief Catalyst, The Business Innovation Factory

Innovation in biopharma – Marco Mancini
Director of Continuous Improvement and Innovation, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Outcome driven innovation – Tony Ulwick
CEO, Strategyn

Design as a catalyst for innovation – Michael Westcott
President, Design Management Institute

Practical innovation: paths for post financial crisis players – Margaret Weichert
National Lead/Payments Practice, Ernst & Young Advisory

Using idea operators to create new and improved ideas – Victor Tang
Consultant, Chairman, I3nsight

Journey to Certification – Abe Walton
Associate Professor, Management and Technology, Florida Institute of Technology

Innovation is Science – Joe Nadan
Professor, Management of Technology and Business Innovation

The Innovation Infrastructure – Brett Trusko
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Innovating to Serve the UnderBanked in Financial Services – Arlyn Davich & Kirsten Trusko
Founder and CEO, PayPerks Executive Director, Network Branded Prepaid Card Association

how lego rewrote the rules of innovation and conquered the toy industry – David Robertson
Professor of Practice at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Implementing Idea Management Systems: harnessing the collective genius of your enterprise – Laszlo Gyorffy
Enterprise Development Group

emerging technologies that are helping to define a formal science of innovation – Eric Little
Vice President and Chief Scientist, Modus Operandi

Mind Genomics: Innovating using the cartography of the mind – Howard R. Moskowitz
President, Moskowitz Jacobs, Inc.

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