Innovating The Future 2025

Join us for Innovating the Future, where we’ll bring together industry leaders and experts to explore practical, actionable steps you can take today to prepare for both anticipated and unexpected changes ahead. Turning insights from experts, consultants, and early signals into strategy is challenging—this event is designed to help you bridge that gap. Each session offers the chance to dive deeper into key issues with your peers, discussing how these trends impact your company and industry. You’ll walk away not only with fresh ideas but also with a clear plan to implement them.

We are the Innovation Research Interchange

A unique and dynamic collaborative atmosphere.

Our network of cross-industry leaders is as diverse as the value we create across all fields of industry. We advance the field of innovation management by generating contemporary practices that accelerate value creation. The IRI is a division of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Upcoming Events

CTO Forum

CTO Forum

12/05/2025
8 am – 1 pm
Leading Innovation Organizations
Webinar: Bend the Flow: Innovation and Circular Supply Chains to Accelerate and Retain Value

Webinar: Bend the Flow: Innovation and Ci…

12/11/2025
12 pm – 1 pm
Innovation, R&D, Building resilient supply chains

Latest Resources

Community Forum – How are you using AI authoring tools?

Community Forum – How are you using AI au…

11/21/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Artificial Intellegence
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Beyond the AI Pilot: Three Trends R&D Lea…

11/20/2025
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Innovation, R&D, Risk Management
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Breaking Through the Valley of Death: A P…

11/18/2025
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Innovation, R&D, Risk Management
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Accelerating Innovation through Gen AI in…

10/30/2025
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Innovation, Tools and Techniques, Artificial Intellegence
Foresight That Shifts Thinking

Foresight That Shifts Thinking

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work
Future Making: Foresighting, Imagining, and Crafting Desirable Futures

Future Making: Foresighting, Imagining, a…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work

The Latest RTM

Foresight That Shifts Thinking

Foresight That Shifts Thinking

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work
Future Making: Foresighting, Imagining, and Crafting Desirable Futures

Future Making: Foresighting, Imagining, a…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work
Organizing for Foresight Capability in Visionary Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Organizing for Foresight Capability in Vi…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organizational Vision
Envisioning the Future Using Generative AI—Implications for Corporate Foresight Practices

Envisioning the Future Using Generative A…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organizational Vision, Artificial Intellegence
Designing Organizations as Service Ecosystems Using Speculative Service Design

Designing Organizations as Service Ecosys…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organizational Vision
Designing Desirable Futures Through Speculative Artifacts—Lessons from Two Global Design Studios

Designing Desirable Futures Through Specu…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work
Collaborative Scenario Experimentation for Strategy Formulation to Shape Desirable Futures

Collaborative Scenario Experimentation fo…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Organization and Future of Work
From Silicon to Synapse: Neuromorphic Computing for Brain-Like Intelligence

From Silicon to Synapse: Neuromorphic Com…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Artificial Intellegence
Direct Air Capture: The Lazy Way to Net-Zero?

Direct Air Capture: The Lazy Way to Net-Z…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Enhance Sustainability
The United States Faces an Assault on Science

The United States Faces an Assault on Sci…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Science, Enhance Sustainability
Mining Heat: Enhanced Geothermal Offers Endless Energy

Mining Heat: Enhanced Geothermal Offers E…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Science, Enhance Sustainability
Luca Mascaro: Innovation at the Intersection of People, Culture, and Technology

Luca Mascaro: Innovation at the Intersect…

10/29/2025
RTM Publication
Managing Emerging Technologies, Culture

Recent Discussions

Community Forum – How are you using AI authoring tools?

Community Forum – How are you using AI au…

11/21/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Artificial Intellegence
Community Forum – How do you do your LCAs? 

Community Forum – How do you do your LCAs? 

10/10/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Enhance Sustainability
Community Forum – What is your process for acquiring new raw materials for R&D? 

Community Forum – What is your process fo…

08/22/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
R&D, Process Mapping and Design, Process Improvement
Community Forum – How are you currently using AI?

Community Forum – How are you currently u…

08/15/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Digital Innovation, Digitalization, Managing Emerging Technologies
Community Forum – How are you upskilling and planning for future digital skill needs? 

Community Forum – How are you upskilling …

07/18/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Digital Innovation, Digitalization, Managing Emerging Technologies
Community Forum – What librarian tool do you use for R&D knowledge?

Community Forum – What librarian tool do …

06/20/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
R&D, Tools and Techniques
Community Forum – How do you onboard and enable/accelerate productivity of Experienced New Hires?

Community Forum – How do you onboard and …

06/13/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Talent Management
Community Forum – How do you align supply chain planning with real-world demand?

Community Forum – How do you align supply…

06/06/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Supply chain management
Community Forum – How can we put on an effective hybrid poster session?

Community Forum – How can we put on an ef…

06/06/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Hybrid, Telework
Community Forum – How do you build and prove the value case for cost savings without compromising quality or sustainability?

Community Forum – How do you build and pr…

05/09/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Enhance Sustainability
Community Forum – Have you conducted a global talent assessment? 

Community Forum – Have you conducted a gl…

05/02/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Talent Management, Leadership Assessment
Community Forum – How do you approach licensing-in of technologies?

Community Forum – How do you approach lic…

04/25/2025
Survey (Community Forum)
Innovation, Managing Emerging Technologies