Is innovation one of your organization's top priorities for 2007? Then you'll want to plan to attend one or all of these new industry events on infusing your new product development pipeline with new, innovative, commercially viable concepts. Sopheon has partnered with these leading organizations to sponsor these executive eventsn in the US and Europe:

The IIR is taking its very successful Front End of Innovation conference to Europe!  Focused on the latest thinking, most effective practices, and tools and techniques from top practitioners working in the discovery portion (or "front end") of the innovation process,  the Front End of Innovation Europe conference will be held in Munich, January 22-25. As a sponsor of this event, Sopheon can offer registrants a 15% discount. Be sure to enter the code SPONM1950SPHN when completing your registration.

Dr. Robert Cooper, Dr. Scott Edgett, and other industry leaders are joining together to present the first ever Stage-Gate® Leadership Summit in St. Petersburg, FL, February 21-22. Join Sopheon for this two-day knowledge exchange about best practices for accelerating decision-making, increasing new product success rates, and driving new product innovation. Sopheon will exhibiting its latest Accolade offerings for managing the product innovation process from ideation to retirement from the marketplace.

Sopheon is again partnering with the European Networking Group (ENG) to present a focused workshp for a particular industry vertical. For this session, thought leaders from BASF, Celanese, Degussa, Ciba Chemicals, and DOW (among others) will explore what innovation means to and for the chemical industry. Entitled New Product Development in the Chemical Industry, this event is designed to provide senior managers a forum for sharing ideas for new product development best practices, including outsourcing R&D to the Far East, collaborating throughout the value chain, and tools for accurately tracking and measuring R&D investments. Nigel Cordery, Sales Director, EMEA for Sopheon, will be serving as chair for the conference and will be on site to exhibit Sopheon's newest innovation process governance solutions.  The event will be held in Amsterdam, February 21-22.