Gwen Smith Ishmael, Sr. Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Decision Analyst in Arlington, TX, has led marketing and new product development activities in the CPG and technology industries since 1986. She also conceived and developed ground-breaking Web-based promotional vehicles, two of which are patent pending. Gwen holds an MBA in Marketing and is a featured speaker on insights and innovation around the world. Her writings have been featured in international text books, most recently in Managing 4 Ps of Marketing FMCG Sector, and Product Innovation: A Strategic Tool for Growth, by ICFAI Publications, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
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Renee Hopkins Callahan started IdeaFlow and serves as chief blog-wrangler. She is Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas, is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. She has a master's degree in rhetoric and has also taught college-level English and informal logic.
I'm speaking at 'Unlocking Innovation: The 11th Annual Innovation Convergence'
Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan
I just found out last week that I'll be speaking at Unlocking Innovation, which is the 11th annual Innovation Convergence conference (there's a linked banner ad for this conference over to the right on this page). Innovation Convergence is the excellent conference series that Joyce Wycoff runs (now in conjunction with IIR). Joyce has a conference information blog here.
My presentation is "Serious Creativity Goes Online: A Case Study," based on the white paper I wrote about here a couple of months ago.
Keynote speakers include Michael Raynor, who co-authored co-author of The Innovator's Solution with Clayton Christensen; Kal Patel, who's Executive Vice-President of Strategy and International for Best Buy; Bob Henn, former head of global R&D for W.L. Gore; Robyn Waters, trends guru. There will also be speakers from such companies as Genentech, Sunbeam, Nike, Starbucks, McNeil, Motorola, and many more.
If you're coming to the conference, please be sure to do your homework! On the conference blog Joyce details the homework assignments: we are all to bring an innovation artifact and an innovation story.
If any IdeaFlow readers are going, please let me know!