Events
Open Innovation Roundtable
Monthly IRI roundtables help members benchmark open innovation challenges, discuss startup partnerships, and share practical strategies for building value-generating co-innovation programs.
WEDNESDAY 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Digitalization and AI Monthly Roundtable
IRI members can join a monthly roundtable on digitalization and AI to share challenges, benchmark peers, and discuss practical use cases, workflows, and digital twins. Topics change each month, with invitations available from Lee Green.
FRIDAY 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Innovating Value Monthly Roundtable
Join monthly IRI member roundtables to discuss innovation challenges, share wins, and benchmark approaches. Upcoming topics include translating innovation into impact, building transformational capability, and understanding market pull.
WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Innovating Value Monthly Roundtable
IRI members can join a monthly roundtable to benchmark innovation challenges and share wins, with topics including translating innovation into impact, building transformational capability, and understanding market pull.
WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Innovators Summit 2026
Innovators Summit 2026 in Charlotte, May 6-8, explores innovation growth drivers, AI, sustainability, and cross-functional teams through sessions, networking, and Tech Treks.
Sustainability Monthly Roundtable
Join fellow IRI members each month for a roundtable discussion on sustainability and innovation. This is an opportunity to benchmark and discuss shared challenges. Don’t worry if you feel you don’t have anything to contribute right now; eventually you will!…
FRIDAY 12:00 pm
Sustainability Monthly Roundtable
Monthly IRI sustainability roundtables help members benchmark challenges, discuss circularity, packaging, and data, and share peer insights on evolving regulations and sustainability priorities.
FRIDAY 12:00 pm
Digitalization and AI Monthly Roundtable
Join fellow IRI members each month for a roundtable discussion on how digitalization and AI can help to drive innovation. This is an opportunity to benchmark and discuss shared challenges. Don’t worry if you feel you don’t have anything to…
FRIDAY 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Digitalization and AI Monthly Roundtable
Join fellow IRI members each month for a roundtable discussion on how digitalization and AI can help to drive innovation. This is an opportunity to benchmark and discuss shared challenges. Don’t worry if you feel you don’t have anything to…
FRIDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Roundtable
Webinar: Transforming Clean Label Innovation in FMCG via Physics-Powered AI and Predictive Modeling
The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector is currently navigating a significant transition driven by a global consumer shift toward “clean label” products and high-transparency ingredient lists. However, replacing functional synthetic additives with natural, sustainable alternatives often introduces complex formulation challenges…
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Webinar
Open Innovation Roundtable
Open innovation sounds great in theory, but what does it take to make it work in practice? Join fellow IRI members each month for a roundtable discussion on open and co-innovation. This is an opportunity to benchmark and discuss shared…
WEDNESDAY 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Roundtable
Workshop: Essentials of Strategic Innovation
In today’s environment, mature organizations are facing extreme levels of risk and uncertainty, due to external events such as the effects of COVID and geopolitical unrest. Under these circumstances they operate to minimize risk, and as a result are caught…
TUESDAY 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Certificate Workshop