Events
SIL Information Session: Program Experience & Value
Considering SIL for yourself or a member of your team? Join us for an information session to learn more about Click here to learn more about SIL and apply for the 2027 program.
TUESDAY 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Webinar
Webinar: Lessons Learned from a Dynamic Partnership: Revolutionizing Paint Shops with a “cold” Laser Curing Oven
Whirlpool Corporation, PPG and IPG Photonics, winners of IRI’s 2026 Innovation Excellence Award for Open Innovation, partnered to develop and validate a laser-based curing platform designed to replace energy-intensive thermal ovens in industrial powder coating operations. By combining IPG’s laser…
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Case Study Workshop: Achieving Organizational Fitness in the Digital Age
Workshop helps manufacturers improve innovation returns by identifying stronger product opportunities and making disciplined portfolio funding decisions. Attendees gain practical tools, AI-supported gates, and a certificate option.
MONDAY 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Webinar: Award Winning Insights – From “Know-It-All” to “Learn-It-All”: DuPont & Qnity’s Lean Innovation Culture Journey
Join us for an interview with the winners of this year’s IRI Innovation Excellence Award for Outstanding Innovative Culture, Sharlene Williams of DuPont and Lindsey Karpowich of Qnity. In this conversation, you’ll hear how these companies transformed innovation into a…
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Innovation Excellence Roundtable Series
Driving Continuous Improvement Without Overloading Teams
WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Webinar: Creating Stability in an Age of Constant Change
Today’s leaders face a paradox: the faster the world changes, the more their organizations need stability. Yet many companies unintentionally create the opposite. New priorities, reorganizations, AI initiatives, market shifts, and transformation programs leave employees struggling to connect the dots….
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Digitalization & AI Roundtable Series
Too Fast, Too Slow, or Just Right? Navigating AI Adoption
FRIDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
SIL Alumni Event: A Conversation with Thomas M. Turmell
Join us for an exclusive Shaping Innovation Leaders (SIL) alumni event, featuring a conversation with Tom Turmell, Lecturer of Executive Education and Academic Director at the Kellogg School of Management, who has taught SIL’s Strategic Thinking course for the past…
TUESDAY 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Webinar
Open Innovation Roundtable Series
Building a Technology Scouting Capability
WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Webinar: From Discovery to Impact: Connecting Talent, Research, and Industry Through TeraOpenScience
Join John Miller for an introduction to TeraOpenScience, a global innovation ecosystem that connects students, faculty, researchers, and industry professionals to accelerate the commercialization of science and technology. Through open and private collaboration spaces, TeraOpenScience enables students to showcase their…
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Webinar: From Scientific Breakthrough to Scalable Magnet Manufacturing
Workshop helps manufacturers improve innovation returns by identifying stronger product opportunities and making disciplined portfolio funding decisions. Attendees gain practical tools, AI-supported gates, and a certificate option.
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Innovation Excellence Roundtable Series
Getting Valuable Ideas into the Innovation Pipeline
FRIDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
