What drives Open Innovation? Dealmaking.
What drives the dealmaking? Find out directly from our global roster of pre-eminent dealmakers.

Open Innovation rests on a foundation of strong dealmaking. If your organization wants to take advantage of Open Innovation and bring new technologies in-house or reap market rewards for your own technologies, then you need to make those deals happen. Come hear from our global roster of preeminent dealmakers how they do it, their tricks of the trade, and their war stories. We’ll also explore how you assess the best opportunities and know those opportunities fit with your organization’s strategy; how you win organization buy-in; and how you bridge the funding gap for promising technologies.

Join us at our tenth Executive Briefing. It convenes at the Hyatt Regency Boston, September 29–October 1, 2009. Our speakers are thought-leaders, decision-makers, and practitioners who are doing deals for their organizations and doing them well. Recent conferences have averaged 140–150 leaders representing 100+ global corporations from six continents.

Gain an edge with “Day 2” Technologies. You’ll learn about 16 cutting-edge technologies and serious technology needs on Thursday morning, when small-to-medium enterprises and large organizations alike offer their newest innovations to, and seek help from, our global audience. Find out how your organization can take advantage of this opportunity to present.

Featured Speakers

Case Studies Include...

A variety of real-life case studies will be presented by deal-makers on both sides of the transaction. They will detail the progress of their respective deals from introduction through negotiation to the final handshake — and point out many of the pitfalls they avoided along the way.

Your Colleagues Are Saying...

“The forum brings a range of IP-savvy companies together for real dialogue and potential future business relationships. I enjoyed not only the presentations but the many hallway discussions—this was an excellent networking event.”
—William R. LaFontaine, Vice President, Business Development, IBM Corporation

“I participated in yet2.com’s conference for the first time in 2006. I was astonished by the wide variety and high quality of the human network that yet2.com has created. With the help of yet2.com, I successfully developed a valuable network with other participants, which helped me to enhance global viewpoints for problem solving. As a result, this provided me with appropriate solutions to some critical issues in several specific on-going projects. I truly appreciate the assistance of yet2.com’s professional staff.”
—Keiji Ushijima, Executive Expert, Intellectual Asset Business Development and Licensing Division, NEC Corporation

“I appreciate the opportunity to have discussed the technology with the ‘movers & shakers’ that offer the potential for commercialization. By far, the Conference has provided the finest opportunity I have had to get my message across to those who can make a difference.”
—Arnold Kelly, President, ZYW Corporation

“The 2006 conference was my first yet2.com meeting. I was positively surprised by the mind set of the attending people. They all seemed to be there to share and to try and find connections. The quality of the interactions was high and I left the conference with more than a handful of useful business leads.”
—Rob Van Leen, Chief Innovation Officer, DSM

Registration for the conference:
$1500 USD through 1 September 2009. After 1 September, $2000 USD

Contact: Nancy Harris at yet2.com for more information,
or phone: +1-781-972-0616

See information on previous Executive Briefing Conferences

Companies Attending to Date

Advanced IP Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
AGC America
AGFA
Agfa Gevaert
Akzo Nobel
Altria
Amway
Arch Chemicals
Arkema
Ashland
AT&T
Avery Dennison
BAE Systems
Bayer Healthcare
Bayer Innovation
BP America
Church & Dwight
Colgate-Palmolive
Crown Holdings
DSM
Dupont
Dynamic Co-Creation
Ellie Corporation
Fairmount Partners
FTT
Georgia-Pacific
Georgia Power Company
Gruma Costa Rica
Heinz North America
IBM
Innovation Edge LLC
INVISTA
Japan Tobacco
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
KISCO LTD.
MannKind Corporation
MaTech
Mikro
Mutoh Industries Ltd.
NASA Tech Briefs
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
NEC Corporation of America
Newell Rubbermaid
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
Omron Corporation
Orbis Biosciences
PATEV
Philips
Procter & Gamble
Rockwell Collins
Royal Dutch Shell
SAP AG
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
Schering-Plough Canada Inc.
Sekisui Integrated Research
Sony Strategic Venture Investments
Strategic Advisor’s Group
Tyco Electronics
Uniglobe KISCO, Inc.
Unilever
Vive Nano
Vorbeck
Western International Gas & Cylinders
WL Gore

Companies Attending Last
Ten Years

ABB Ricerca S.p.A
Agfa Gevaert, NV
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Agrotechnology & Food Innovations
AKZO-Nobel
AmorePacific Corporation
Asahi Glass
Asahi Kasei
Aventis CropScience
Avery Dennison
Axela
BAE Systems
Baxter Healthcare
Bayer Innovation GmbH
Bellsouth
BP Amoco Chemicals
British Telecom UK
Caterpillar
Centro Ricerche FIAT
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Clariant Corporation
Colgate-Palmolive
Crown Holdings, Inc.
DSM
DuPont
Eastman Chemical Company
EPRI
Epson
F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd.
Firmenich SA
Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
France Telecom
Ganeden Biotech
GE
General Mills
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Hitachi, Ltd.
Honeywell
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
IBM
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Johns Manville
Johnson & Johnson
Kao Corporation
Kenwood
Kimberly-Clark
Kishimoto Sangyo Co., Ltd.
L’Oreal
Matsushita
Medtronic
Microsoft Corporation
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
NASA Tech Briefs
NEC
Nippon Steel Corporation
Nitto Denko Technical Corporation
Nokia Corporation
Northrop Grumman
NTT Leasing Co. Ltd
Omron
Parker Hannifin
Philips International B.V.
Praxair
Procter & Gamble
RICOH Co. Ltd.
Rhodia
Rockwell Scientific Company
Rohm and Haas
Samsung Electronics
Schott Glas
Sharp Corporation
Shell Global Solutions
Shell Chemicals
Siemens AG
Signal Display Systems
SK Corporation
SONY Corporation
Telemaco srl
Textron Innovations
The Timken Company
Thomson Scientific
Unilever
W.R. Grace
Wrigley
WVHTC Foundation