Innovation Ahead by IRI

Webinar: How Veterans’ Experience Can Best Serve in Industry Roles with with Sean Bruce (Hess) and Perezam Takouda (Cargill)

IRI honors Veterans Day with this fantastic panel of veterans brought together to discuss: Barriers that impede a smooth transition from military to civilian employment; Key skills that are developed in the military; Ways that veterans’ experience can help them in industry roles; and Steps that organizations can take to make themselves more attractive to veterans.

Webinar: How to Increase Diversity in Industry and Academic with Brennon Marcano, GEM Fellows Program

IRI’s Lee Green interviews Brennon Marcano, CEO of the National GEM Consortium. The GEM Fellows program aims to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science. Learn about how the GEM Consortium is increasing diversity in industry and academia and the ways that they match fellows with the right organizations to maximize success.

Thought Leader Interview: Innovative Thinker and Disrupter Identification with William Green, University of Birmingham, UK

IRI’s Lee Green and Randall Wright, Program Director, MIT discuss how companies need to practice reconnaissance to identify innovative thinkers and the next disrupters, how sensors will be game changers, and hidden factories.

Thought Leader Interview: Neurodiversity and Innovation with Dave Caudel, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation

IRI’s Lee Green interviews David Caudel, Associate Director, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University. They discuss the abilities that neurodiverse individuals bring to the workplace, and innovation in particular, and the (surprisingly simple and straightforward) accommodations that can be made to the workplace to bring in these individuals. They also cover how to train managers of neurodiverse individuals to ensure a good relationship (and how the Frist Center can help).

Thought Leader Interview: Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems with Randall Wright, MIT

Thought Leader Interview: Diversity, Culture, and Inequality Research with Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers

IRI’s Ed Bernstein and Nancy discuss her work in covering her research into diversity, culture, and inequality, as well as the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers.

Thought Leader Interview: Augmented Reality Thought Leader Interview with John Simmins, Alfred University

IRI’s Lee Green and John Simmins discuss augmented reality, covering the technology itself, ways to ease adoption, and future uses in industry and education.

Webinar: LGTBQ+ Employee Resource Group Creation with Carolyn McMullen, JM Smucker

IRI’s Lee Green and Carolyn discuss Carolyn’s work in establishing an LGBTQ+ employee resource group in the organization, including the impact the group is having on culture, establishing leadership buy-in, and bringing along allies. 

Webinar: Interdisciplinary Creation, Generative Design, and Effective Human/Machine Teams with Mickey McManus, BCG Group

IRI’s Lee Green and Mickey McManus, Senior Advisor, BCG discuss Mickey's time at Carnegie Mellon University, MAYA (Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable), Autodesk, and BCG including topics such as interdisciplinary creation, generative design, building effective human/machine teams, and the marriage of sustainability and synthetic biology.

Webinar: The Tools Diverse R&D Teams need to Innovate Effectively with Corinne Post, Villanova School of Business

IRI’s Lee Green and Corinne discuss the impact of belonging to a specific group (women, racial minority) on R&D scientists and engineers’ career trajectories and how having women in leadership impacts organizations’ long-term innovation strategies as well as the tools that diverse R&D teams need to be able to innovate effectively.