Events
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
Online Case Study Workshop: Formulating a Future-Oriented Strategy
This 75-minute interactive professional development session is designed to prompt conversations among R&D, innovation, and technology management practitioners on how exemplary cases of innovation can help them approach and think about innovation in their own contexts. This session is built…
MONDAY 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Workshop
Innovating Value Monthly Roundtable
Join fellow IRI members each month for a roundtable discussion on driving the innovation pipeline for impact. 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;…
WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Webinar: AI at the Frontier of Scientific Innovation: From Algorithms in Nature to Digitizing Smell
Join Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, for a fascinating discussion on how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research and innovation. From his pioneering work on “algorithms in nature” to…
THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Webinar
