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She spent her first 25 years at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, serving as the Vice Dean for the last 4 ½ years before moving to Rady.\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:35:16.678Z","2025-01-22T22:23:44.303Z","146",{"id":122,"name":909,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":910,"height":911,"formats":912,"hash":937,"ext":604,"mime":607,"size":938,"url":939,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":940,"updatedAt":940},"Ordonez-pic.jpg",5418,3564,{"large":913,"small":919,"medium":925,"thumbnail":931},{"ext":604,"url":914,"hash":915,"mime":607,"name":916,"path":16,"size":917,"width":610,"height":918},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/large_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c.jpg","large_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c","large_Ordonez-pic.jpg",58.19,658,{"ext":604,"url":920,"hash":921,"mime":607,"name":922,"path":16,"size":923,"width":617,"height":924},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/small_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c.jpg","small_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c","small_Ordonez-pic.jpg",21.13,329,{"ext":604,"url":926,"hash":927,"mime":607,"name":928,"path":16,"size":929,"width":624,"height":930},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/medium_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c.jpg","medium_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c","medium_Ordonez-pic.jpg",38.01,494,{"ext":604,"url":932,"hash":933,"mime":607,"name":934,"path":16,"size":935,"width":936,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c.jpg","thumbnail_Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c","thumbnail_Ordonez-pic.jpg",7.36,237,"Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c",835.58,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Ordonez_pic_fe97d1f71c.jpg","2025-01-13T20:35:02.507Z",[],"-109","-96",{"id":150,"groupTitle":945,"sessions":946},"Wednesday, August 6, 2025",[947,980],{"id":473,"session":948},{"id":97,"title":949,"teaser":950,"body":44,"createdAt":951,"updatedAt":952,"publishedAt":953,"url_path_id":954,"contacts":955,"url_path":979},"Innovation Nation:  Imperatives for Technology Management","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Innovation has always been the engine of national prosperity, but in today’s hypercompetitive, technology-driven world, managing innovation is not just an opportunity—it’s an imperative.  There is a call to action for leaders across industry, government, and academia to rethink how we develop, deploy, and govern transformative technologies. This keynote will explore the forces shaping the innovation landscape, and the challenges of scaling breakthroughs, managing risk, and ensuring that innovation drives inclusive economic growth. In an age where technology leadership defines global power, the question is not whether we innovate, but how we manage innovation to shape the future we want.\u003C/p>","2025-01-15T22:22:39.814Z","2025-02-27T19:50:19.528Z","2025-01-15T22:26:15.420Z","157",[956],{"id":17,"name":957,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":958,"email":16,"biography":959,"createdAt":960,"updatedAt":961,"url_path_id":962,"contactPhoto":963,"socialLinks":977,"url_path":978},"Maryann Feldman","Watts Professor of Public Policy and Management, Arizona State University, USA","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u003Cstrong>Maryann P. Feldman\u003C/strong> is the Watts Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University and research director at the Global Center for Technology Transfer. Her recent research focuses on place-based economic development and the factors that promote economic restructuring and resilience. Professor Feldman chairs the Policy Forum of the Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, where she also chairs a congressional mandated assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Feldman was a winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for her contributions to the study of the geography of innovation, the commercialization of university research and the role of entrepreneurial activity in the formation of regional industry clusters. She earned a BA in Economics and Geography from The Ohio State University and a MA and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. For more information on Prof. Feldman, visit \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://cspo.org/people/maryann-feldman/\">https://cspo.org/people/maryann-feldman/\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>","2025-01-15T22:25:57.128Z","2025-01-22T22:24:02.721Z","158",{"id":964,"name":965,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":966,"height":966,"formats":967,"hash":973,"ext":19,"mime":20,"size":974,"url":975,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":976,"updatedAt":976},66,"Maryann-Feldman-Photo.png",240,{"thumbnail":968},{"ext":19,"url":969,"hash":970,"mime":20,"name":971,"path":16,"size":972,"width":198,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Maryann_Feldman_Photo_1b43fbd76c.png","thumbnail_Maryann_Feldman_Photo_1b43fbd76c","thumbnail_Maryann-Feldman-Photo.png",33.73,"Maryann_Feldman_Photo_1b43fbd76c",21.88,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Maryann_Feldman_Photo_1b43fbd76c.png","2025-01-15T22:25:50.577Z",[],"-118","-113",{"id":825,"session":981},{"id":47,"title":982,"teaser":983,"body":984,"createdAt":985,"updatedAt":986,"publishedAt":987,"url_path_id":988,"contacts":989,"url_path":1012},"Technological Leadership for a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Global power and energy systems are deeply interconnected with communication, transportation, logistics, finance, and the environment. Addressing climate change, resource constraints, and rapid technological shifts requires ethical, innovative, and data-driven leadership grounded in real-world solutions.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">By 2050, global electricity consumption is projected to rise by 50%, with overall energy demand increasing by about 30%. This is driven by economic growth, population expansion, and the electrification of industries and transportation. This makes renewable integration, grid modernization, and infrastructure resilience more critical.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">This plenary will explore how proven technologies — such as verifiable AI-driven energy optimization, scalable storage, and self-healing microgrids — are already reducing costs, cutting emissions, improving grid stability, and expanding energy access. We will also examine the financial and economic forces shaping power systems, highlighting strategies to safeguard infrastructure against economic shocks while ensuring long-term investments in climate resilience.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Finally, we will discuss opportunities for research and innovation in technology management, including business model design and policy development. Building a sustainable and resilient energy future is a global imperative, and the technology management community has a pivotal role in driving this transformation.\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:38:03.762Z","2025-02-27T19:51:02.862Z","2025-01-13T20:38:06.101Z","149",[990],{"id":991,"name":992,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":993,"email":16,"biography":994,"createdAt":995,"updatedAt":995,"url_path_id":996,"contactPhoto":997,"socialLinks":1010,"url_path":1011},96,"Massoud Amin","CTO of Renewable Energy Partners and Chairman of EPS Associates, USA","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dr. Massoud Amin is a recognized leader in smart grid technology, cybersecurity, and infrastructure resilience. He pioneered self-healing grids and advanced proactive cybersecurity, shaping over $200 billion in infrastructure investments. His work has driven major R&D initiatives and programs at EPRI, NSF, DHS, DoE, and DoD. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dr. Amin serves as Chairman and President of Energy Policy & Security Associates. He is also CTO at Renewable Energy Partners, In these roles, he leads initiatives in clean energy, automation, and cybersecurity for underserved communities.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">He is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as the Honeywell H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership and the Director of the Technological Leadership Institute at the university.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">At EPRI, he led post-9/11 security-related R&D for all North American utilities, developed 36 technologies transferred to industry, and earned two Chauncey Awards, EPRI’s highest honor, and a President’s award for his leadership in response to 9/11.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">He has briefed the White House and Congress on grid security and served as a U.S. delegate at global engineering and scientific forums, with insights widely cited in \u003Ci>The New York Times\u003C/i>, \u003Ci>Washington Post\u003C/i>, \u003Ci>Forbes\u003C/i>, \u003Ci>Wall Street Journal\u003C/i>, CNN, and NPR.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dr. Amin holds a Doctor of Science in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Fellow of ASME and IEEE and has been honored with the Visionary Leader Award from the Cyber Security Summit and Distinguished Alumni Awards from Washington University and the University of Massachusetts.\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:34:09.979Z","145",{"id":998,"name":999,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":657,"height":657,"formats":1000,"hash":1006,"ext":19,"mime":20,"size":1007,"url":1008,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":1009,"updatedAt":1009},61,"Amin-pic-1.png",{"thumbnail":1001},{"ext":19,"url":1002,"hash":1003,"mime":20,"name":1004,"path":16,"size":1005,"width":198,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Amin_pic_1_7939b4d913.png","thumbnail_Amin_pic_1_7939b4d913","thumbnail_Amin-pic-1.png",51.29,"Amin_pic_1_7939b4d913",50.52,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Amin_pic_1_7939b4d913.png","2025-01-13T20:33:44.741Z",[],"-108","-112",{"id":28,"__component":838,"componentVariation":839,"contactsVariation":840,"styles":1014,"header":1016,"sessionsGroup":1018},{"id":231,"edgeTop":48,"edgeBottom":48,"background":1015,"containerWidth":16},"base-50",{"id":211,"heading":1017,"prose":44,"lead":16,"eyebrow":16,"badge":16,"componentVariation":843,"containerWidth":16,"image":16},"Semi-Plenary Speakers",[1019,1088],{"id":28,"groupTitle":846,"sessions":1020},[1021,1055],{"id":1022,"session":1023},50,{"id":250,"title":1024,"teaser":1025,"body":1026,"createdAt":1027,"updatedAt":1028,"publishedAt":1029,"url_path_id":1030,"contacts":1031,"url_path":1054},"New Models to Generate Social Impact with AI at Scale","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">The application of artificial intelligence in the social sector offers unique technical affordances for creating public good. Unlike traditional methods, AI enables interventions like adaptive personalization, large-scale qualitative data analysis, and sophisticated recommender systems that can be tailored to individual user needs. However, leveraging these capabilities requires moving beyond bespoke, client-by-client services toward productized solutions designed for systemic impact. Achieving this version of scale demands a systems-thinking approach focused on incentive alignment, user-centered design, and sustainable organizational structures. This session examines the technical and strategic challenges of building AI-powered products that are designed not just to serve a single organization, but to meaningfully change an entire system.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">This presentation proposes a rigorous framework for developing these ventures by reframing success as a multi-objective optimization problem. Instead of maximizing a single variable like profit, this approach involves jointly optimizing for multiple, sometimes competing, goals such as programmatic efficacy, operational cost, and user scale. We will explore how establishing clear impact metrics creates constraints that guide both technical development and the selection of an appropriate non-profit business model—be it philanthropy, licensing fees, or membership structures. Using examples from fields like Learning Engineering, this talk provides a systematic methodology for technology leaders and researchers to design, fund, and scale AI solutions that are both effective and sustainable.\u003C/p>","2025-07-04T07:52:14.936Z","2025-07-16T14:19:06.473Z","2025-07-04T07:56:23.106Z","217",[1032],{"id":1033,"name":1034,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":1035,"email":16,"biography":1036,"createdAt":1037,"updatedAt":1037,"url_path_id":1038,"contactPhoto":1039,"socialLinks":1052,"url_path":1053},132,"Dan Jarratt","Vice President of Data Science at Education Analytics, USA","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dan Jarratt is Vice President of Data Science at Education Analytics, where he leads research and analytics development for large open interoperable data systems serving local and state education agencies. Drawing on 15 years of education technology, data, research, and business development experience, Dan was most recently a Fellow at Schmidt Futures and Chief Technical and Innovation Officer of the $100M+ Learning Engineering Virtual Institute, where he sourced, selected, managed, and evaluated ed-tech grantees for Schmidt Futures as well as the Walton Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also a senior advisor and proposal evaluator for the Learning Engineering Tools Competition and is an advisor to the Innovations for Poverty Action’s Partnerships for Tech in Education program. Previously Dan was site lead and proposal co-author for the National Science Foundation’s $90M grant to Rice University for SafeInsights: a 30+ organization education R&D infrastructure consortium. He was also founder and head of the learning science technologies capacity at Infinite Campus, the nation’s 2nd largest student information system. At Infinite Campus, Dan created the country’s largest administrative education data mining system and early warning system (which now forms part of Nevada’s school funding formula) as well as the company’s academic-industry partnership program with technical, legal, and business support for large-scale education research.\u003C/p>","2025-07-04T07:55:32.265Z","218",{"id":1040,"name":1041,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":656,"height":656,"formats":1042,"hash":1048,"ext":604,"mime":607,"size":1049,"url":1050,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":1051,"updatedAt":1051},103,"Dan Jarrett.jpg",{"thumbnail":1043},{"ext":604,"url":1044,"hash":1045,"mime":607,"name":1046,"path":16,"size":1047,"width":198,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Dan_Jarrett_68cd312b08.jpg","thumbnail_Dan_Jarrett_68cd312b08","thumbnail_Dan Jarrett.jpg",4.67,"Dan_Jarrett_68cd312b08",21.26,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Dan_Jarrett_68cd312b08.jpg","2025-07-04T07:55:28.620Z",[],"-171","-170",{"id":828,"session":1056},{"id":103,"title":1057,"teaser":1058,"body":1059,"createdAt":1060,"updatedAt":1061,"publishedAt":1062,"url_path_id":1063,"contacts":1064,"url_path":1087},"Engineering the Future: Technology Megatrends, Ethics, and Policy","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">At a time when technological change is accelerating across every industry, understanding and shaping the forces behind that transformation has never been more critical. Drawing on insights from the IEEE Technology Megatrends 2024 report, this talk explores the three dominant forces expected to shape the next decade: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Digital Transformation, and Sustainability.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">These megatrends are converging in ways that promise exponential innovation—enabling breakthroughs in energy, mobility, healthcare, education, and beyond. But they also demand urgent attention to ethical frameworks, inclusive design, and forward-looking policies. How do we govern AGI responsibly? How do we build equitable access to digital infrastructure? And how do we ensure that sustainability is not an afterthought, but a foundation of our technology roadmaps?\u003C/p>","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">This session provides a multidisciplinary lens on navigating these megatrends—integrating technical depth with real-world impact. Attendees will leave with strategic insights and actionable guidance to lead responsibly in a rapidly evolving global landscape.\u003C/p>","2025-05-28T14:50:31.526Z","2025-05-28T14:50:33.781Z","2025-05-28T14:50:33.775Z","204",[1065],{"id":1066,"name":1067,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":1068,"email":16,"biography":1069,"createdAt":1070,"updatedAt":1070,"url_path_id":1071,"contactPhoto":1072,"socialLinks":1085,"url_path":1086},130,"Ravikiran Annaswamy"," CEO, Numocity Technologies","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Ravikiran Annaswamy is the CEO of Numocity Technologies, a leading digital platform accelerating electric mobility and energy sustainability across emerging markets. With over 30 years of global experience in innovation, business leadership, and product strategy, Ravikiran is a passionate advocate for responsible and inclusive technology. He is actively involved with the IEEE at various global roles and serves as a thought leader at the intersection of digital transformation, smart energy, and ethical innovation.\u003C/p>","2025-05-28T14:49:19.286Z","203",{"id":1073,"name":1074,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":657,"height":657,"formats":1075,"hash":1081,"ext":604,"mime":607,"size":1082,"url":1083,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":1084,"updatedAt":1084},69,"Ravi.jpg",{"thumbnail":1076},{"ext":604,"url":1077,"hash":1078,"mime":607,"name":1079,"path":16,"size":1080,"width":198,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Ravi_f24d34027d.jpg","thumbnail_Ravi_f24d34027d","thumbnail_Ravi.jpg",5.24,"Ravi_f24d34027d",13.47,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Ravi_f24d34027d.jpg","2025-02-19T15:52:52.685Z",[],"-159","-160",{"id":47,"groupTitle":945,"sessions":1089},[1090,1144],{"id":256,"session":1091},{"id":486,"title":1092,"teaser":1093,"body":1094,"createdAt":1095,"updatedAt":1096,"publishedAt":1097,"url_path_id":1098,"contacts":1099,"url_path":1143},"Technology Leadership and Innovation in the Age of Healthtech","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Technology is driving tremendous change across the healthcare industry, fundamentally reshaping how care is delivered, how organizations operate, and how innovation reaches patients. The role of technology leaders in this transformation is more critical than ever—requiring not just technical expertise, but also strategic vision, adaptability, and the ability to navigate complex challenges. As healthcare embraces AI, automation, precision medicine, and digital health, leaders must not only drive innovation but also ensure its successful implementation and adoption.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Yet, healthcare is not alone in facing these disruptions. Almost every industry is now a technology industry—from banking to agriculture—where success depends on integrating emerging technologies, fostering innovation, and leading teams through rapid change. This session will explore the universal principles of technology leadership, drawing on lessons from healthcare while providing insights applicable across sectors.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">This talk will also highlight the evolution of Mayo Clinic’s strategic plan, demonstrating how the organization is positioning itself as a disruptor rather than the disrupted and the importance of proactively shaping industry transformation.\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:39:36.535Z","2025-02-27T19:52:13.984Z","2025-01-13T20:39:39.944Z","152",[1100],{"id":1101,"name":1102,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":1103,"email":16,"biography":1104,"createdAt":1105,"updatedAt":1105,"url_path_id":1106,"contactPhoto":1107,"socialLinks":1141,"url_path":1142},99,"Mark Wehde","Chair of Engineering, Mayo Clinic, USA","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Mark Wehde is chair of engineering at Mayo Clinic, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and fellow in the Mayo Clinic Academy of Educational Excellence. He is also Fellow and  James J. Renier Chair in Medical Device Innovation at the University of Minnesota Technology Leadership Institute and a lecturer in the University of Wisconsin – Eau Clair MBA program.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Mark has also served on the board of directors for the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. He is also on the board of several academic organizations, including the South Dakota State University Electrical Engineering program, the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Biomedical Engineering program, the University of Minnesota Robotics Institute, the University of Minnesota Healthcare Management program, and the Clinician Engineer Hub, which spans Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Imperial College London, and King’s College London.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Mark has given over 80 national and international presentations on the topics of leadership and medical device development and has published more than 25 articles on related topics. Mark received a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Iowa State University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, and a Master of Business Administration through the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium.  \u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:37:45.694Z","148",{"id":1108,"name":1109,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":1110,"height":1111,"formats":1112,"hash":1137,"ext":604,"mime":607,"size":1138,"url":1139,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":1140,"updatedAt":1140},64,"Wehde-pic.jpg",2320,3472,{"large":1113,"small":1119,"medium":1125,"thumbnail":1131},{"ext":604,"url":1114,"hash":1115,"mime":607,"name":1116,"path":16,"size":1117,"width":1118,"height":610},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/large_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b.jpg","large_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b","large_Wehde-pic.jpg",90.23,668,{"ext":604,"url":1120,"hash":1121,"mime":607,"name":1122,"path":16,"size":1123,"width":1124,"height":617},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/small_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b.jpg","small_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b","small_Wehde-pic.jpg",21.65,334,{"ext":604,"url":1126,"hash":1127,"mime":607,"name":1128,"path":16,"size":1129,"width":1130,"height":624},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/medium_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b.jpg","medium_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b","medium_Wehde-pic.jpg",48.38,501,{"ext":604,"url":1132,"hash":1133,"mime":607,"name":1134,"path":16,"size":1135,"width":1136,"height":198},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b.jpg","thumbnail_Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b","thumbnail_Wehde-pic.jpg",3.28,104,"Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b",966.49,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Wehde_pic_8b048ec60b.jpg","2025-01-13T20:37:19.597Z",[],"-111","-115",{"id":1145,"session":1146},54,{"id":528,"title":1147,"teaser":1148,"body":1149,"createdAt":1150,"updatedAt":1151,"publishedAt":1152,"url_path_id":1153,"contacts":1154,"url_path":1194},"How AI Accelerates and Enhances the New Product Development Process: A Focus on the Front End","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">The fuzzy front end (FFE) of new product development (NPD) is critical to project success, as activities like idea generation, concept development, and market analysis often determine final outcomes. However, the FFE is prone to errors, leading to costly failures later in development.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">AI in later NPD stages—product design, development and testing—faces higher barriers due to technical complexity and higher costs. The front end, on the other hand, presents a low-risk, high-reward entry point for AI integration. Yet, and despite the availability of low-cost tools, AI adoption in the FFE remains low—only 22% in 2024. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Cooper’s talk explores AI’s role in FFE activities in NPD. He shows examples of AI creating new product ideas and then screening them, prioritizing the best ideas—with remarkable results. AI also conducts market and competitive analyses—again examples are provided—and assists in market research and voice-of-customer work, reducing costs and time. Cooper also touches on the next leap—AI autonomously predicting new-product success and making the Go/No-Go decision.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Given AI’s low cost for FFE tasks and the exceptional results, the real question is: \u003Ci>What’s stopping us?\u003C/i>\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:38:37.733Z","2025-02-27T19:51:36.009Z","2025-01-13T20:38:39.674Z","151",[1155],{"id":1156,"name":1157,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":1158,"email":16,"biography":1159,"createdAt":1160,"updatedAt":1160,"url_path_id":1161,"contactPhoto":1162,"socialLinks":1192,"url_path":1193},98,"Dr. Robert G. Cooper","Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, Canada","\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dr. Robert Cooper is Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, Canada and ISBM Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. He is a world expert in the field of management of new-product development and product innovation, and is the creator of the globally employed Stage-Gate® process used to drive new products to market. He was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the \u003Ci>Journal of Product Innovation Management\u003C/i>.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dr. Cooper has combined practical consulting with ground-breaking research for many years. He has written 10 books, including the best-selling \u003Ci>Winning at New Products\u003C/i> and \u003Ci>Portfolio Management for New Products\u003C/i>. He has also published more than 170 articles on R&D, innovation management, and AI in product innovation. He is a Fellow of the Product Development & Management Association and a noted consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 firms. He also gives public and in-house seminars globally. For more information on Dr. Cooper, visit \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http://www.bobcooper.ca\">www.bobcooper.ca\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>","2025-01-13T20:36:15.911Z","147",{"id":1163,"name":1164,"alternativeText":16,"caption":16,"width":1165,"height":1166,"formats":1167,"hash":1188,"ext":604,"mime":607,"size":1189,"url":1190,"previewUrl":16,"provider":23,"provider_metadata":16,"createdAt":1191,"updatedAt":1191},63,"Cooper-pic.jpg",1920,1080,{"large":1168,"small":1173,"medium":1178,"thumbnail":1183},{"ext":604,"url":1169,"hash":1170,"mime":607,"name":1171,"path":16,"size":1172,"width":610,"height":611},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/large_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9.jpg","large_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9","large_Cooper-pic.jpg",58.39,{"ext":604,"url":1174,"hash":1175,"mime":607,"name":1176,"path":16,"size":1177,"width":617,"height":618},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/small_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9.jpg","small_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9","small_Cooper-pic.jpg",21.18,{"ext":604,"url":1179,"hash":1180,"mime":607,"name":1181,"path":16,"size":1182,"width":624,"height":625},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/medium_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9.jpg","medium_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9","medium_Cooper-pic.jpg",38.36,{"ext":604,"url":1184,"hash":1185,"mime":607,"name":1186,"path":16,"size":1187,"width":631,"height":632},"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/thumbnail_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9.jpg","thumbnail_Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9","thumbnail_Cooper-pic.jpg",7.21,"Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9",66.41,"https://confcats-siteplex.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/temscon25/Cooper_pic_0b52e532d9.jpg","2025-01-13T20:36:11.257Z",[],"-110","-114",{"data":1196,"meta":1197},{"id":348,"heading":349,"createdAt":354,"updatedAt":355,"publishedAt":356,"url_path_id":357,"url_path":350,"contentType":79},{},1778853713779]