Programme

Content – at – a – Glance

Day 1 – 25th November

12.30 Check-In and Registration Opens

13.00 Enforcing Lean to smoothen your NPD Process

13.30 Technology Push vs. Market Pull debate: finding the right balance in the innovation phase

14.00 Product portfolio: think global, act local

14.30 Networking Break and Peer-to-Peer Meetings

15.00 Workshop

17.00 Peer-to-Peer Meetings

19.00 We end Day 1 with our exclusive dinner and networking program

Day 2 – 26th November

08.00 Late Registration

08.30 Chairman’s Opening: NPD Megatrends

09.00 NPD World Café – The best ideas come with a good cup of coffee

09.30 – 11.00 Track 1:
Front End of Innovation Track
09.30 Front End of Innovation – How to define the right things to do and how to do the right thing
10.00 Idea Management: breeding
internal innovation for commercial
success
10.30 Driving collaboration, ambition setting & timely delivery in the early phases of NPD
09.30 – 11.00 Track 2:
Valley of Death Track
09.30 Agile as a tool to proactive product development
10.00 Design for Six Sigma: How to
succeed in a world of intensified
competition
10.30 Cross-department collaboration through extensive Knowledge
Management
09.30 – 11.00 Track 3:
Crowdsourcing Track
09.30 Crowds working for innovation in many roles
10.00 Crowdsourcing for B2B
organizations
10.30 Understanding Crowd-sourcing

 

11.00 Networking Break and Peer-to-Peer Meetings

11.30 Interactive Clinics

11.30 NPD Interactive Clinics Session 1:

12.00 NPD Interactive Clinics Session 2:

12.30 Lunch and VIP Luncheon

13.30 NPD Roundtable Discussions 2013

15.00 Networking Break and Peer-to-Peer Meetings

15.30 Panel Debate: To re-shore … or not to re-shore

16.15 Portfolio Management to achieve business goals

16.45 New product development in emerging markets – opportunities & challenges

17.15 End of Conference