On-Demand Events
2019 Digital Futures
This conference was created in partnership with Case Western Reserve University to help companies along their digital transformation journey. This conference aims to...
2019 Annual Conference-- Innovation Unleashed:...
IRI’s Annual Conference is the go-to event for global innovation leaders. Come together with your peers from large corporations, startups, and everything in between to...
Brown Bags & Partner Webinars
IRI hosts lively Webinars and conference calls on the first Friday of each month, noon eastern, to discuss the latest and best in innovation management literature....
Research Webinars and Winter Meeting Presentations
“How do you do research on research?” IRI's research program focuses on determining best practices for processes related to the effective management of R&D in...
2018 SPRINGBOARD: Smart Horizons--Prepare for the...
SPRING Trends / DXC Community
Sourcing PRedictive Insights for New Growth A collaboration between RTI International and IRI
Networks Meetings & Special Webinars
Networks are member-driven groups based around various functional areas within R&D. Members gather twice per year to benchmark, discuss hot topics and, of course,...
2018 IRI Annual Conference | Breaking Boundaries
IRI’s Annual Conference is the go-to event for global innovation leaders. Come together with your peers from large corporations, startups, and everything in between to...
2017 Annual Meeting - R&D | Beyond Four Walls
"R&D Beyond Four Walls" explores how organizations are pushing beyond the traditional value chain to adopt a more dynamic and integrated collaboration culture across...
2017 Member Summit
Powered largely by content developed within IRI, the Summit is an in-depth exploration of various working group findings and special reports on IRI's year-long...
Educational Workshops
Our educational offerings cover a wide variety of topics to arm R&D and innovation professionals with a tools, techniques, and information they need solve their most...
Member Summit 2016 - Digitalization and its...
Hear the final reports from IRI’s Digitalization and its Implications in R&D Management strategic research teams and gain a comprehensive guide for maximizing the...
2016 Annual Meeting - Grab The Future: Leveraging...
Nearly 300 of your industry colleagues explored recent science and technology trends and discussed case studies of how companies have turned trends into new growth...
IRI2038 Futures Study: Special IRI Research Project
As part of the Industrial Research Institute’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, it commissioned the IRI2038 Futures Study, a futures initiative designed to answer the...
2015 Member Summit: The Best Conversations Start...
Change is occurring at a quicker pace than ever before and corporations must be agile in adapting to this change. Today's fluctuating business environment requires...
2015 Annual Meeting: Customers at the Core
Organizations are continually challenged to innovate for their customers, to enhance their value propositions and better identify and address latent customer needs. ...
2014 Member Summit: Climbing to New Peaks in...
The 2014 Member Summit explores how to effect change in the organization culture and attract and develop talent to sustain an innovation culture. Focus includes...
2014 Annual Meeting: R&D as MVP
IRI’s 2014 Annual Meeting explores ways in which R&D strategy aligns with corporate strategy to bring value to the organization, emphasizing why and how R&D...
2013 Future Summit
The Future Summit envisions the future of research and technology management through provocative presentations about the future and reports and workshops around the...
2013 Diamond Jubilee
75 years ago, the founding members of IRI shared a vision of problem solving through idea exchange and mutual cross-industry collaboration – this was the beginning of...
2012 Annual Meeting: Driving Growth, Here, There &...
Innovation is a fuel for future growth. Many new drivers are changing the way companies are managing their innovation systems, including the pace of change,...
2012 Member Summit: Revving Up R&D
This meeting’s focus is on R&D’s role in building and executing a winning transformational strategy to help drive growth.
2011 Member Summit: The Best Conversations Start...
A significant number of organizations, and therefore their R&D operations, have gone through a major transition since the economic collapse in 2008/2009. For most...
2011 Annual Meeting - Navigating the New Normal
What is the new normal of innovation? Has the economy truly changed and do we need to change with it? Explore these questions with the world’s top innovation...
2010 Member Summit: the Best Conversations Start Here
Innovation in the Future - How companies manage and perform innovation is continually changing. Many trends impact this change, from global demographics and...
2010 Annual Meeting: R&D in Transition. Where We Go...
Many organizations have experienced a dramatic shift in the structure of their business during the past year. These business changes create both challenges and...
2009 Member Summit - Innovate. Collaborate....
Growing an emerging technology is challenging. As an R&D professional, your focus is on accelerating innovation – never an easy task. The rapid acceleration of...