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Thursday, September 15, 2022
PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference
2022 PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference and JPIM Research Forum
We are happy to announce that the early bird registration rates for the 2022 PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference and JPIM Research Forum have been extended!

The new early bird deadline is
September 22, 2022.

Our 2022 conference features a new format to optimize your value. In addition to traditional sessions such as inspirational keynotes and educational breakouts, take a deep dive into several key innovation areas through half-day intensive workshops. It's all included in the cost of your ticket!

Build your skills along with your own personal innovation community through our open and friendly networking. Check out our schedule of incredible sessions.

Don’t delay, this is the only extension on early bird pricing. Make sure you lock in your savings and get ready for an adventure in Orlando this November!
Don't Forget to Reserve Your Room
The deadline to reserve your hotel rooms for our conference is Thursday, October 20, 2022. The Signia by Hilton at Bonnet Creek offers a premium experience with all the comforts of home.

Book your room now

Conference Sponsorship Opportunities
We are excited to be face-to-face once again to connect the industry's top decision makers, key prospects, and industry innovators from the largest product development brands around the globe.

Sponsoring this PDMA conference is your opportunity to reach this key audience, who are eager to learn more about cutting-edge products and services in the product development industry. Your presence as a sponsor is the perfect way to demonstrate your support for the goals of PDMA as well as your unique value proposition.

Meet Your PDMA Board!
DIRECTOR KRISTYN CORRIGAN

 Kristyn Corrigan
Kristyn is a principal and co-owner of Applied Marketing Science, a Boston-based market research consultancy that helps companies develop better products and services through harnessing the power of customer insights.

In over 17 years of product development consulting experience, Kristyn has led and designed customer insights engagements for leading global B2B and consumer brands. She specializes in helping companies not only understand stated and latent customer needs through in-depth interviewing and ethnographic observation, but also with how to measure their criticality to innovation.

In addition to consulting work, Kristyn trains companies to create and implement their own in-house insights and Voice of the Customer programs. Her published work has been featured in Fast Company and Marketing News. She has guest lectured at several institutions, including the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Professionally, Kristyn is most energized when she’s helping clients uncover meaningful customer insights that change the way they think and that create real business impact. Personally, she enjoys traveling and spending as much time as she can with family and friends.

Kristyn holds a B.S. in marketing and sociology from Providence College and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Bentley University, with a concentration in Marketing Analytics.
PDMA kHUB
kHUB Access
Just a reminder that access to kHUB is free and open to the public. Simply sign into your PDMA account and start searching for relevant topics, blog posts, articles, webcasts, and more — check it out today and explore and gain knowledge on various product and innovation topics. 

Do you have content to contribute?
Email it to
khub@pdma.org. To join our online discussions, visit the PDMA Community.

kHUB's Most Popular Articles:   
Most of the most-read kHUB content last month were again some classics:

How might these still-relevant (or other kHUB) articles help your organization win in your product space?


New kHUB Content

Guest contributor Konstantin Dolgan of LANPDT shares his insights about prototyping in a recent blog post: 10 Ways to Reduce the Cost of Prototyping.

Curator Scott Burleson interviews Vendbridge founders Yann Wermuth and Beat Walther to understand and share their core process “Customer-Focused Innovation”. This article starts with the definition and explanation of CFI — a “systematic approach to identify and sharpen winning ideas and concepts from the customer’s view.”

Links to New Podcasts have been added to kHUB’s additional resources tab! The kHUB Curators continue to search and recommend podcasts of interest to, and appropriate for, you — the PDMA and kHUB audience.

Follow the
Innovation+ Talks podcast series hosted by Paul Heller of Sopheon, The Product Experience hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver from Mind the Product, and The Rocketship (a podcast for entrepreneurs, product managers and anyone working in tech today).

Don't forget to check out the other podcasts and blogs the kHUB curators recommend.
 
Call for Volunteers
Are you looking to become more
involved in PDMA?

We’re looking for you!

We want to expand kHUB’s network of curators/editorial board. PDMA kHUB is the centralized digital content management and access platform for the extensive PDMA Body of Knowledge. The kHUB editorial board is responsible for content aggregation, curation, and creation for the key areas such as Strategy, Portfolio Management, Product Innovation Process, Product Design & Development Tools, Market Research in Product Innovation, Culture, Teams & Leadership, Product Innovation Management.

kHUB offers easy access and brings to life PDMA thought leadership in a way that showcases our unique expertise and enduring impact for product development and innovation management professionals throughout their careers.


Fill out this
form and/or contact Sue Burek, kHUB administrator (sburek@pdma.org, 585-314-4611)
PDMA’s Global Student Innovation Challenge 2022 Finalists Selected
PDMA GSIC finalists have been selected and will present their ideas at PDMA’s Inspire Innovation Conference and Research Forum November 13 in Orlando to determine first, second and third place prize money and bragging rights. Join us to see the presentations, participate in the Q/A, interact with the students, and vote for the team you think should win, based on their understanding of product development of a product/service/software idea and detailing the unique value proposition, evidence of demand, and mock-up or embodiment of that product. Will it be Counting Assistant from Duke University, USA, NanoAid from ENOVA Calgary, Canada, or Solar Mineralis from University of Tulsa, USA? You be the judge!
Upcoming Chapter Events
MINNESOTA
Say What? Improving Cross-Functional Team Communication

September 21, 2022
5:30–7pm CDT (GMT -5)
Location: Virtual
Learn more and register


CAROLINAS

The Relationship between Marketing and Product
September 27, 2022

6–7pm EDT (GMT -4)
Location: Virtual
Learn more and register


ST. LOUIS
2022 Conference

October 15, 2022
8am-1:30pm CDT (GMT -5)
Location: Virtual
Learn more and register

CAROLINAS & ProductCampRTP
Product Summit Online™

October 29, 2022
9am–12pm EDT (GMT -4)
Location: Virtual
Learn more and register
JPIM Is Free with PDMA Membership. Access Your Journal Today!
The JPIM September 2022 issue is now available! Access the latest issue here.

Members, log in and access JPIM articles here. Non-members may access abstracts. Hard copy subscriptions for members can be purchased here.

Don't forget to download the JPIM app!

JPIM app for iOS and Android devices is available from the App Store or Google Play to read all of the issues and articles awaiting publication under "Early View". Search for Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Welcome, New Members!
PDMA is growing! Meet and connect with our new members by signing into the PDMA community on our website.

PDMA welcomed these new members in August 2022.
We look forward to working with you!

Corporate Team Members
Michael Clavell
Mike Edgington

Individual Members
Bridget Bell
Justin Carlson
Renee DiModica
Amy Dryman
Abel Eshete
Nancy Green
Lauren Guada
Jonathan Harrist
Justin Hillukka
Davis Hunt
Imran Khan
Valeriya Khramchenkova
Stephan Koch
Eleanor Kolossovski
Ling-Hui Lu
James McKelvey
Jerry McKinley
Dean Newcomb
Torge Oeverdiek
Jeremiah Pluim
Kseniia Pokasenko
Phillip Ray
Tendai Samuriwo
Tamer Shahin
Balaji Sriramulu
Lauren Todd
Scott Wennermark

Academic Members
Syawaluddin Akbar
Laras Dianningrum
Clio Dosi
Andreas Engelen
Fasa Aditya Hanindipto
Gita Nugraha
Blair Presley Bone
Yazid Rahman
Handono Rakhmadi
Maria Setia
Surahmad Wiji Widodo

Student Members
Samantha Bishop
George Carlisle
Bryce Goswick
Rahel Graeber
Zebiba Jibreel
Carolin Lielienthal
Carol Lobisser
Valeska Maul
William Page
Morgan Red

Get NPD Professional  Certification
PDMA congratulates community members who earned their NPD Professional Certification in August 2022!

Bill Brantley
Mohammad Elsabbahy
Yasushi Fukuyama
Marlon Hernandez
  Dominguez

Joshua Jameson
Peiwen Xiao
Weihao Zheng

PARTNER OPPORTUNITY
PMI Training
Whether you want to build your leadership expertise, gain valuable skills to drive project success, or learn the basics of agile, PMI Training provides a highly interactive small-group experience led by dynamic instructors, both in person and virtual, that offers courses dedicated to driving project success and professional development. Choose from more than 100 courses across a variety of subject areas that range in length from 1 hour to 1–4 days. View the PMI Training course catalog for more information, or click the dates below to see more information. Special 20% discount for PDMA members.  Use code PDMA1 when registering

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