Detailed Agenda

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Tuesday, October 25th
4:00 p.m.	Optional site visits: - Fidelity Labs @ 245 Summer Street, Boston - Shell TechWorks @ 281 Albany Street, Cambridge
6:30 p.m.	Optional welcome meet-up: John Harvard’s Brewery (private room) @ 33 Dunster Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, October 26th
7:45 a.m.	Coffee and breakfast at Harvard Innovation Lab 125 Western Avenue
8:45 a.m.	Day One kick-off: Group introductions & morning hands-on exercise
9:15 a.m.	Getting Employees Engaged, Changing Culture, Delivering Impact Featured speakers: Denise Garner of Clorox and Alex Goryachev of Cisco
10:30 a.m.	First set of whiteboard sessions: Dan Seewald, Director of Worldwide Innovation, Pfizer: How to create a network of champions Suzanne Hamill, VP of Design Thinking, Fidelity: Applying design thinking to wicked hard problems Moisés Noreña, Director of Strategic Innovation, Allstate: The Not-So-Sexy Side of Innovation — Making It Sustainable and Inescapable Alex Darie, Strategic Director / Connected Systems, Philips Lighting: Rethinking how research gets done Anna Stepanova, Senior Director, Innovation, Thomson Reuters: Creating and managing a fund to support innovators Edoardo Manitto, VP Corp. Development and Innovation, Groupe Galeries Lafayette: How an accelerator can help you plug into innovation outside your walls
11:45 a.m.	Morning Break
12:00 p.m.	Lunch and second set of whiteboard sessions: Prat Vemana, VP Online, Home Depot: How to overcome barriers to innovation Nondini Naqui, CEO, Society of Grownups: Spinning out a new venture from a large company — and connecting with a new set of consumers Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation, GE: How to ensure your open innovation has impact Phil Swisher, Founder and Former SVP/Innovation, Trevian Wealth & Brown Brothers Harriman: Navigating the minefields of corporate innovation Chris Mayer, EVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Suffolk Construction: How we’re exploring and applying emerging technologies like VR, smart video, and AR Lesley Solomon, Exec. Dir / Innovation Hub, Brigham & Women’s Hospital: What we’ve learned about running hackathons with doctors, nurses, administrators, and entrepreneurs
1:30 p.m.	Afternoon break with dessert and coffee
2:00 p.m.	Featured speaker: MIT Sloan School of Management Professor & Author Eric von Hippel
3:15 p.m.	Third set of whiteboard sessions: Jazz Singh, Senior Digital Product Manager, NFL: How we use Agile development Greg Hannon, Head of Innovation, W.L. Gore: How we do lean startup Claudia Reuter, SVP, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lab: The 185 year-old startup: How HMH built an in-house incubation lab Blaine Hurst, Chief Innovation & Growth Officer, Panera Bread: Lessons learned from innovating the customer experience in a people business William Singleton, New Ventures Business Development Leader, Wrigley: Understanding corporate antibodies and how to overcome them Naomi Fried, Healthcare Innovation Executive: Innovating in a regulated industry
4:30 p.m.	Day One Sessions Conclude
5:00 p.m.	Drinks, networking, hors d’ouvres at Noir Bar at the Charles Hotel 1 Bennett Street, Cambridge
Thursday, October 27th
7:45 a.m.	Coffee and breakfast at Harvard Innovation Lab 125 Western Avenue
8:45 a.m.	Day Two kick-off & morning hands-on exercise
9:00 a.m.	Building a Network of Innovation Labs: Kyle Nel, Executive Director, Lowe’s Innovation Labs Jodi Goldstein, Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Lab
10:15 a.m.	First set of whiteboard sessions: Bill Nottingham, Vice President, Vikki Nowak, Vice President, and Doug Hopkins, VP Digital Solutions, Nottingham Spirk: How to use data to inspire new product development Brant Cooper, CEO, and Aaron Eden, Co-Founder, Moves the Needle: Going up: Getting buy-in and shifting mindsets amongst your senior leadership Andy Michuda, CEO, and Mike Tulaney, Sr. Innovation Management Consultant, Sopheon: Innovate like a leader: How companies like PepsiCo, Parker Hannifin, and Honeywell use innovation strategy to move faster than the competition in rapidly changing markets Ramon Salinas, Insights Practice Lead, Imaginatik: Turning imagination into value: A future-building workshop Jim Hornthal, Co-Founder and Chairman, and Andrea Kates, CEO, LaunchPad Central: The role of mentorship in Lean Innovation
11:30 a.m.	Morning Break
12:00 p.m.	Lunch and second set of whiteboard sessions: George Leimer, VP of Fantasy Sports & Premium Products, ESPN: Building a culture of metrics and data — without letting them squash creativity Kyle Nel, Executive Director of Lowe’s Innovation Labs: Narrative-driven Innovation: How Lowe's is changing the future by building it Jesse Bean, Head of Innovation, Digital Strategy, and M&A Execution, Manulife: Enabling DevOps in a multinational corporation Rachael Schwartz, General Manager of Keurig Connect, Keurig Green Mountain: Connecting with consumers in new ways as you lead the company into a new space Tucker Marion, Professor, Northeastern University: Rapid Concept Development — From high level idea to prototype within an hour Reed Sturtevant, Managing Director, Project 11 Ventures: Best Practices for Big Company/Startup Interaction
1:15 p.m.	Afternoon break with dessert and coffee
1:45 p.m.	The agenda is yours: Participant-led whiteboard sessions Participants lead conversations about topics we haven’t yet tackled, or that they want to explore in greater depth
2:45 p.m.	Teach-In Wrap Up: Learnings & Next Steps
3:00 p.m.	Optional Tour of Harvard Launch Lab and Life Lab: This tour is intended for participants who are not able to visit Google or Target, and will conclude by 3:45 so you can head to the airport.
4:00 p.m.	Optional site visits: - Google Cambridge office @ 355 Main Street, Cambridge - Target Food + Future coLAB @ 80 Broadway, Cambridge
Some of our favorite Harvard Square restaurants to try: Henrietta’s Table, Harvest, Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage, Tory Row, Russell House Tavern, Cambridge 1 PIzza, the Border Café