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1999

• Product Development and the Supply Chain - Sept 13-15, 1999 / Austin
• Fourth Annual Metrics Conference - Oct 18-20, 1999 / Chicago
• Customer Connected Product Definition - Nov 8-10, 1999 / Orlando

2000

• Exploit Disruption - March 27-29, 2000 / Scottsdale
• Appling Constraints Management to Product Development - April 4-5, 2000 / Chicago
• Product Development and the Supply Chain 2 - April 17-19, 2000 / Santa Clara
• Web-Based PDM - June 19-21, 2000 / Boston
• Maximizing Product Development Speed and Throughput - Sept 18-20, 2000 / Chicago
• Design Anywhere, Manufacture Anywhere - Oct 16-18, 2000 / San Diego
• Product Differentiation Bootcamp - Oct 30-Nov 1, 2000 / Chicago
• Fifth Annual Metrics Conference - Nov 1-3, 2000 / Chicago

2001

• Product Development and the Supply Chain 3 - Jan 29-30, 2001 / Phoenix
• Synchronizing Resources, Capacity and the Product Pipeline - Feb 21-23, 2001 / New Orleans
• Product & Process Leadership Conference - April 4-6, 2001 / Boston
• gate io - May 21-23, 2001 / Tampa Bay
• Balancing Multiple Projects with Limited Resources - Sept 24-26, 2001 / Chicago
• Sixth Annual Metrics Conference - Oct 15-17, 2001 / Chicago
• Strategic Management of Technology and Product Lifecycles - Nov 13-15, 2001 / Santa Clara

2002

• Product Development and the Supply Chain 4 - March 4-6, 2002 / Dallas
• Controlling the Risks of New Product Development - April 15-17, 2002 / Cambridge, MA
• Global Alliance and Technology Acquisition Summit - Sept 23-25, 2002 / Seattle
• Seventh Annual Metrics Conference - Oct 28-30, 2002 / Chicago
• Outsourcing Design & Manufacturing - Nov 6-7, 2002 / San Diego

2003

• Fast & Flexible Product Development - Feb 26-28, 2003 / Orlando
• Balancing Multiple Projects with Limited Resources 3 - April 23-25, 2003 / Chicago
• Maximizing & Measuring the Value of Technology Alliances - June 2-3, 2003 / Boston
• Driving Product Lifecycle Profits from Launch Through Renewal - June 16-18, 2003 / Chicago
• Fast & Flexible Product Development 2 - Oct 8-10, 2003 / Chicago
• NPD Project Innovation 03 - Oct 20-22, 2003 / Ft. Worth
• Eighth Annual Metrics Conference - Nov 3-6, 2003 / Chicago
• Improving R&D Productivity—How to Link Resource Management to Portfolio Process - March 29-31 / Atlanta
• Quality in Device Manufacturing: The New Global Profit Center - March 30-31 / San Diego, CA

2004

• WORKSHOP
  July 14-15 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen, Reinertsen & Associates

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 20 / 1:30pm-2:30pm / Your Office - Risk-Adjusted Resource Management: 8 Key Steps to Managing a Diverse Portfolio - Session Leader: Mahesh Singh, PRTM (a Pharmcentric program)

• EXECUTIVE SESSION
  August 11-12 / Boston, MA - Better, Faster Innovation: Leading the Flexible Enterprise

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 18 / Your Office - Co-Development Red Flags—And What to Do About Them: A Special "Ask the Practitioner Experts" Session

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 19 / Your Office - Achieving Breakthrough Innovation in Regulated Industries: Metrics and Indicators of Early Failure and Repeatable Success - w/Wayne Mackey, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

• AUDIOSESSION
  September 8 / Your Office - Guaranteeing Co-Development Success from the Start: Tools, Methods and Metrics for the Alliance Kick Off - w/Anton Gueth, Gueth Consulting, former Director of Alliance Management for Eli Lilly & Company

• CONFERENCE
  September 28-30 / Chicago, IL - Ninth Annual Conference - Product Development and R&D Metrics: Metrics from Ideation to Commercialization

  CONFERENCE
  September 28-30 / Chicago, IL - Ninth Annual Conference - Product Development and R&D Metrics: Metrics from Ideation to Commercialization

  WORKSHOP
  October 18-19 / Boston, MA - Product Management: Rationalizing, Roadmapping and Rejuvenating the Portfolio - Instructors: Daniel Bowman and Patrick Gordon, PRTM

  WORKSHOP
  October 5 / Princeton, NJ - Successful Alliance Management for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Firms - Instructor: Stuart Kliman, Vantage Partners LLC

  CONFERENCE
  November 8-10 / Chicago, IL - Taking VOC to the Next Level: Define, Differentiate, Disrupt

• WORKSHOP
  Dec 1-2 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen, Reinertsen & Associates

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 8 / Your Office - Outsourcing Innovation—Leveraging External Sources to Drive Internal Growth - w/Michael Docherty, Venture2

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 9 / Your Office - How to Deliver Cost-Effective Outsourcing - w/Stuart Kliman, Vantage Partners LLC

• WORKSHOP
  December 9-10 / Boston, MA - Building Profitable Co-Development Alliances - Instructors: Gene Slowinski and Matt Sagal

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 15 / Your Office - Co-Developing Products in Asia - w/Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads

2005

• AUDIOSESSION
  January 11 / Your Office - Product and Technology Roadmapping - w/Richard Albright, Albright Strategy Group

• CONFERENCE
  January 24-26 / Phoenix, AZ - CoDev 2005 - Co-Developing Products with Partners, Suppliers and Customers

• AUDIOSESSION
  February 3 / Your Office - Niches vs. Footholds—Breaking Tradeoffs to Accelerate Growth - w/Michael Raynor, co-author, The Innovator's Solution

• WORKSHOP
  February 16-17 / San Diego, CA - Achieving Lean Product Development - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• WORKSHOP
  February 28-March 1 / Orlando, FL - Market-Driven Product Definition - Instructor: Sheila Mello, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

• AUDIOSESSION
  March 2 / Your Office - Effective Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) - How to Structure CoDev Alliances for Success - w/Kevin Schwartz, PRTM

• AUDIOSESSION
  March 18 / Your Office - Requirements vs Resources: Managing the Product Pipeline for Faster Time-to-Market - w/Ken Crow, DRM Associates

• WORKSHOP
  March 28-29 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap, Paap Associates

• CONFERENCE
  April 5-7 / San Diego, CA - Second Annual Medical Device Quality Congress

• AUDIOSESSION
  April 14 / Your Office - Top Ten Ways to Screw Up Your Voice of the Customer - w/Gerry Katz, Applied Marketing Science

• CONFERENCE
  April 25-27 / Chicago, IL - Product Pipeline & Portfolio Management

• WORKSHOP
  April 28-29 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap, Paap Associates

• WORKSHOP
  May 11-12 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 18 / Your Office - Creating a Dedicated Alliance Management Office - w/Mike Ransom, Eli Lilly & Company

• WORKSHOP
  June 6-7 / Cambridge, MA - Building Profitable R&D Alliances - Instructors: Gene Slowinski & Matt Sagal

• WORKSHOP
  June 20-21 / Boston, MA - Stage-Gate^® Innovation: Accelerating the Process from Idea-to-Launch - Instructor: Robert Cooper

• AUDIOSESSION
  June 29 / Your Office - Doing Business in China: The Ten Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - w/David Everhart, Ionis International

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 13 / Your Office - The Customer Value Portfolio—Predicting the Blockbusters: How to Measure Customer Value - w/Wayne Mackey, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

• WORKSHOP
  July 18-19 / Chicago, IL - Mastering the Art of Customer Visits - Instructor: Ed McQuarrie

• WORKSHOP
  August 8-9 / Chicago, IL - Product & Technology Roadmapping - Instructor: David Smith

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 24 / Your Office - Dealing with the "Incompleteness" of Co-Development Agreements: Everything You Wished You Decided Up-Front But Didn't - Call Leader: Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

• AUDIOSESSION
  September 14 / Your Office - The CEOs View on Measuring R&D - Call Leader: Bradford L. Goldense

• CONFERENCE
  September 26-28 / Boston, MA - 2005 Annual Voice of the Customer (VOC) Conference—From Fuzzy to Focused

• WORKSHOP
  October 17-18 / Boston, MA - Product Management: Rationalizing, Roadmapping and Rejuvenating the Product Portfolio - Instructors: Dan Bowman, Patrick Gordon and Craig Anderson

• AUDIOSESSION
  October 19 / Your Office - Top 12 Mistakes that High Technology Product Teams Make - And How to Avoid Them - Call Leader: Martin Cagan

• WORKSHOP
  October 26-27 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development - Instructors: Don Reinertsen

• WORKSHOP
  November 3-4 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• CONFERENCE
  November 7-9 / Chicago, IL - 10th Annual Conference on Product Development Metrics: Achieving the Full Value of R&D

• AUDIOSESSION
  November 9 / Your Office - Global Products, Global VOC: Translating Customer Needs Around the World - Call Leader: Christina Hepner Brodie

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 7 / Your Office - Blogging for Product Developers: Useful Tool or Passing Fad? - Call Leader: Bill Ives

2006

• AUDIOSESSION
  January 18 / Your Office - Bringing the Value of Lean to Product Development - Call Leader: Mark Thut

• CONFERENCE
  January 30-February 1 / Scottsdale, AZ - CoDev2006 - Co-Development for Business Growth: Open Innovation & Alternatives

• AUDIOSESSION
  February 8 / Your Office - Accelerating Innovation, Achieving Transformational Growth - Call Leader: Gene Slowinski

• AUDIOSESSION
  February 14 / Your Office - Doing Business in China: The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Call Leader: David Everhart

• WORKSHOP
  February 27-28 / St. Pete Beach, FL - Stage-Gate® Innovation:
  Accelerating NPD Productivityfrom Idea-to-Launch - Instructor: Robert G. Cooper

• WORKSHOP
  March 28-29 / San Diego, CA - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• AUDIOSESSION
  March 29 / Your Office - 10 Strategies for Design Innovation - Call Leader: Dev Patnaik

• WORKSHOP
  April 3-4 / Savannah, GA - Product & Technology Roadmapping: Maximizing Strategic and Organizational Effectiveness - Advanced Session - Instructor: Irene Petrick

• WORKSHOP
  April 10-11 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• CONFERENCE
  April 24-25 / Chicago, IL - Sixth Annual Product Pipeline & Portfolio Management Conference

• AUDIOSESSION
  April 26 / Your Office - The Clorox Model of Innovation Partnering - Call Leader: Dave Lowrance

• WORKSHOP
  May 1-2 / San Diego, CA - Mastering the Art of Customer Visits - Instructor: Edward F. McQuarrie

• CONFERENCE
  May 3-4 / San Diego, CA - Third Annual Medical Device Quality Congress

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 8 / Your Office - Doing Business in India: The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 17 / Your Office - Getting Started with Roadmapgate io app - Call Leader: Ed Crowley

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 22 / Your Office - Alliance Constellations: When More Partners Lead to Greater Product Success - Call Leader: Ben Gomes-Casseres

• WORKSHOP
  June 5-6 / Cambridge, MA - Open Innovation and R&D Alliances: Reinventing Corporate Growth - Instructor: Dr. Gene Slowinski

• CONFERENCE
  June 13-14 / Chicago, IL - Lean Product Development Implementation Summit

• AUDIOSESSION
  June 14 / Your Office - Bringing the Value of Lean to Product Development - Call Leader: Mark Thut and Oliver Hazimeh

• WORKSHOP
  June 28-29 / Boston, MA - gate.io login^{gate.io login}gate.io login - Instructor: Dr. Robert G. Cooper

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 12 / Your Office - Design for Uncertainty - Call Leader: Preston Smith

• WORKSHOP
  July 24-25 / San Francisco, CA - 8 Steps to Predictable Innovation - Instructor: Anthony W. Ulwick

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 25 / Your Office - Co-Developing Products in Asia - Call Leader: Lothar Katz

• WORKSHOP
  August 8-9 / Chicago, IL - Flexible Product Development:
  Techniques for Thriving in Fast-Moving and Uncertain Markets - Instructor: Preston Smith

• AUDIOSESSION
  September 13 / Your Office - Innovate Like Edison: Five Competencies That Generate Breakthrough Results - Call Leader: Sarah Caldicott

• AUDIOSESSION
  September 20 / Your Office - Doing Business in India: The Ten Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla

• WORKSHOP
  September 26-27 / Boston, MA - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don G. Reinertsen

• MASTER CLASS WORKSHOP
  October 4-5 / San Diego, CA - Reaping the Full Power of Kano Model for Product Innovation - Leaders: Dr. Noriaki Kano & Dr. Roger Vardan

• AUDIOSESSION
  October 16 / Your Office - Open Innovation in China: Is it Possible? - With Professor Roger Nagel, Lehigh University; Dr. John C. Tao, Corporate Director, Technology Partnerships, and Bobby Chen, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Beijing)

• WORKSHOP
  October 16-17 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• CONFERENCE
  November 6-8 / Chicago, IL - 11th Annual Product Development and R&D Metrics Conference

• AUDIOSESSION
  November 15 / Your Office - The Portfolio Sweet Spot - With Richard Tait, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

• CONFERENCE
  December 4-6 / San Diego, CA - Speeding Innovation: Concept to Launch in Record Time

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 6 / Your Office - Lean Project Portfolios - With Gene Kania, mc2solutions

2007

• AUDIOSESSION
  January 24 / Your Office - A Capacity Based Governance Method for Improving Engineering Performance - With Ross Seider, On-Fire Associates

• CONFERENCE
  January 29-31 / Scottsdale, AZ - CoDev2007 - Co-Developing Products with Partners, Suppliers and Customers

• CONFERENCE
  February 20-21 / St. Petersburg, FL - First International Stage-Gategate.io login gate.io login

• WORKSHOP
  February 26-27 / San Diego, CA - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• AUDIOSESSION
  February 28 / Your Office - 7 Steps to Avoiding the Traps Set by Annual Planning in Product Development - With Bob Becker, Product Development Advantage Group LLC

• WORKSHOP
  March 6-7 / Miami, FL - Eight Steps to Predictable Innovation - Instructor: Anthony W. Ulwick

• AUDIOSESSION
  March 21 / Your Office - Assessing Technology Readiness and Maturity: A Step-by-Step Process - With Has Patel, Infologic

• WORKSHOP
  March 28-29 / San Diego - Innovating with Partners in China: Negotiation, Collaboration and IP Strategies - Instructor: Roger Nagel

• WORKSHOP
  April 4-5 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• AUDIOSESSION
  April 11 / Your Office - Open Innovation Networks—Creating and managing an ecosystem for innovation - With Mike Docherty, Venture2

• AUDIOSESSION
  April 18 / Your Office - Opportunity Discovery at the Front End of Innovation—Five Keys to “White Space” Identification - With Geoff Waite & Simon Karger, Sagentia

• WORKSHOP
  April 30-May1 / Chicago, IL - Product & Technology Roadmapping for Competitive Advantage: Implementation, Strategies & Techniques - Instructor: Irene Petrick

• WORKSHOP
  May 7-8 / Chicago, IL - Mastering the Art of Customer Visits - Instructor: Edward F. McQuarrie

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 16 / Your Office - Developing Products in India: The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to avoid Them - With Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures, Inc.

• AUDIOSESSION
  May 30 / Your Office - IP Protection and Open Source Licensing for Innovation: What You Should Know and Do - Before Inking the Deal - With Jim Markwith, Microsoft

• WORKSHOP
  June 4-5 / Cambridge, MA - Open Innovation and R&D Alliances: Techniques and Tools for Collaborative Growth - Instructors: Dr. Gene Slowinski and Dr. Matt Sagal

• CONFERENCE
  June 6-7 / Chicago, IL - Second Annual Lean Product Development Summit

• AUDIOSESSION
  June 19 / Your Office - Managing International Projects - With Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads & Sue Freedman, PhD, co-author, Beyond Teams

• WORKSHOP
  June 26-27 / Cambridge, MA - Stage-Gate^® Innovation - Instructor: Dr. Robert G. Cooper

• AUDIOSESSION
  June 27 / Your Office - Leading Business in China - With David Everhart, Korn/Ferry International

• WORKSHOP
  July 17-18 / Chicago, IL - Product Management—Rationalizing & Revitalizing the Portfolio for Market Growth - Instructor: Linda Gorchels

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 18 / Your Office - Demystifying the Link between Innovation and Business Value: A Process Framework - With Dr. Kevin C. Desouza

• AUDIOSESSION
  July 25 / Your Office - The Toolbox for High Speed Innovation and NPD - With Greg Githens

• CONFERENCE
  August 13-15 / Chicago, IL - Customer Needs Discovery & Innovation Congress

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 16 / Your Office - The Lean Product Development Revolution - With Don Reinertsen

• WORKSHOP
  August 20-21 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• WORKSHOP
  August 20-21 / Cambridge, MA - Product & Technology Roadmapping for Competitive Advantage - Instructor: Irene Petrick

• AUDIOSESSION
  September 20 / Your Office - Contextual Design: From Customer Data to Implementation - Instructor: Karen Holtzblatt

• AUDIOSESSION
  October 3 / Your Office - Talk to Your CFO—How to Justify New Product Investments - Instructor: John Farnbach

• AUDIOSESSION
  October 9 / Your Office - Negotiating International Business - Instructor: Lothar Katz

• WORKSHOP
  October 10-11 / Cambridge, MA - Leveraging Intellectual Property to Accelerate Product & Technology Development—
  How to Make Open Innovation Work - Instructors: Jay Paap & Paul Germeraad

• WORKSHOP
  October 16-17 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• WORKSHOP
  October 22-23 / Cambridge, MA - Innovation and R&D in China – Negotiation, Collaboration and IP Strategies

• WORKSHOP
  November 5-6 / Chicago, IL - Eight Steps to Predictable Innovation

• CONFERENCE
  November 5-7 / Chicago, IL - 12th Annual Conference on Product Development and R&D Metrics: Increasing Return on Innovation, Achieving Organic Growth

• WORKSHOP
  December 3-4 / San Diego, CA - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• AUDIOSESSION
  December 5 / Your Office - The Honeymoon is Over — Now What? How to Leverage, Integrate and Combine Product Offerings for Corporate Survival Post Merger/Acquisition
  Call Leader: Tim Bosch, Foliage

2008

• AUDIOSESSION
  January 16 / Your Office - Green Product Design: Innovative, Customer Focused – and Profitable Call Leader: John Bradford, InterfaceFLOR

• CONFERENCE
  January 21-23 / Scottsdale, AZ - Seventh Annual Congress on  Co-Developing Products with Partners, Suppliers and Customers - CoDev 2008

• AUDIOSESSION
  January 30 / Your Office - Managing Customer Requirements in Volatile Environments: How Flexible Product Development Can Reduce the Cost of Change Call Leader: Preston Smith, New Product Dynamics

• WORKSHOP
  February 26-27 / Orlando, FL - Flexible Product Development - Instructor: Preston Smith

• AUDIOSESSION
  March 6 / Your Office - R&D in India: Advice and Lessons Learned Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures

• WORKSHOP
  March 25-26 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• CONFERENCE
  April 7-9 / Scottsdale, AZ - Product Development IMPACT

• AUDIOSESSION
  April 30 / Your Office - Using Patent Analytics to Uncover and Assess Technology Innovation Opportunities – Before Your Competitors! Call Leader: Thomas Blailock, Blailock Associates

• WORKSHOP
  May 5-6 / La Jolla, CA - Mastering the Art of Customer Visits - Instructor: Ed McQuarrie

• WORKSHOP
  May 13-14 / Rosemont, IL - Product & Technology Roadmapping Fundamentals - Instructor: Irene Petrick

• WORKSHOP
  June 16-17 / Cambridge, MA - Leveraging Intellectual Property to Accelerate Product & Technology Development - Instructor: Jay Paap & Paul Germeraad

• WORKSHOP
  June 24-25 / Chicago, IL - Metrics that Matter to R&D: Rapidly Deploying a Comprehensive and Simple R&D Metrics System  - Instructor: Wayne Mackey

• AUDIOSESSION
  June 25 / Your Office - Your Office - Open Innovation Networks—Creating and managing an ecosystem for innovation - With Mike Docherty, Venture2

• WORKSHOP
  July 22-23 / Chicago, IL - Achieving Lean Product Development: Techniques, Economics and Implementation - Instructor: Don Reinertsen

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 6 / Your Office - X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed
  Call Leader: Deborah Ancona, MIT Sloan School of Management

• WORKSHOP
  August 14-15 / Cambridge, MA - Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation - Instructor: Jay Paap

• AUDIOSESSION
  August 20 / Your Office - Lean Development:
  How to apply lean principles in different development environments, Call Leader: Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck LLC

• WORKSHOP
  September 23-24 / Waltham, MA - Increasing New Product Hit Rate: A Disciplined System for Front-End Innovation - Instructor: Geoff Waite, Sagentia

• CONFERENCE
  October 14-15 / Chicago, IL - Profiting from Lean Product Development: Toyota Methods and Beyond

• WORKSHOP
  October 21-22 / Chicago, IL - Stage-Gate® Innovation- Instructor: Dr. Robert Cooper

• CONFERENCE
  October 28-30 / Boston, MA - Technology Sourcing for Faster Innovation and Business Growth: Integrating External Ideas with Internal Development