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FEI USA: Front End of Innovation
June 10-12, 2024
Omni Boston Hotel at the SeaportBoston
June 10-12, 2024|Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, Boston

FEI: Front End of Innovation 2024



Supercharge Innovation: Corporate Changemakers Unite

This summer, we'll unite corporate changemakers from around the world to drive innovation forward. This summer, we'll convene trendsetters from all across the innovation value chain– from corporate innovators, R&D execs, product development and design to consumer insights, UX/CX, strategy and transformation teams– for an interactive, interdisciplinary learning, networking and collaborative event in the heart of Boston's innovation district.

Join us for three full days of identifying emerging trends and exploring actionable insights and leave with a clear path toward strengthening the value of innovation to your organization.

Why Do Great Companies Fail?

In The Innovator's Dilemma, Professor Clayton Christensen concluded that often well-managed companies fail due to the very management practices that allowed them to become inudstry leaders, also make it extremely difficult for them to develop the disruptive technologies that ultimately steal away their markets.

Or, as they say: “What got you here, won’t get you there.”

In the 21st year of FEI: Front End of Innovation, we will continue to answer Professor Christiansen’s oracular question with strategies not-only to avoid failure, but also to help grow and obtain resilience into the future by integrating the disruptive technologies of the day while sustaining the front-end of innovation principles that contribute to well-managed organizations. Join us for in-depth exploration along six key themes.

Attaining Enterprise Collective Intelligence from AI & Tacit (Human) Organizational Knowledge

Driving Forward from Sustainability to Circular Economies

Generative AI Use Case Facilitated Networking

Gamified Corporate Start-Up Venturing

Driving Innovation with Direct Insight from Gen Z

Hands-on Interactivity with Next Generation Technology

Priscilla Beal

Strategy & Innovation Thought Leader

Bayer

I had the honor of speaking at the 2020 Front End of Innovation conference, coordinated by Informa Connect. Especially in “COVID times,” when so many people suffer from video meeting and conference fatigue, the steps to engage as an attendee, let alone speaker, can seem exhausting. NOT the case with Informa Connect. The entire team was proactive, flexible, highly professional and kind. I would engage them to manage a conference our team, department or function hosted without hesitation!

Sustainability

At FEI: Front End of Innovation, our aim is to be an ever more sustainable, positive impact business.

We focus on the areas in which we can make the most significant contribution: our operations, the content and knowledge Informa’s brands provide and the communities in which we work. FasterForward, our five-year sustainability program contains ambitious commitments to embed sustainability into everything we do and help our customers and markets do the same.