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Nabil Sakkab | Senior VP of corporate R&D at Procter & Gamble

Nabil Sakkab

Senior VP of corporate R&D at Procter & Gamble

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Biography

Dr Nabil Y. Sakkab retired from P&G in 2007 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Research and Development. He served on P&G's Leadership Council and the Innovation Committee of P&G's Board of Directors. He is a thought leader and worldwide speaker in the Open Innovation movement to create disruptive businesses, the author of several scientific and Innovation Management publications and co-inventor on 27+ patents. Dr Sakkab is an Advisory Professor for Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was awarded the 2007 IRI Medal for Leadership in R&D Management, the 2007 Holland award for best article in Innovation Management and the 2014 P&G Alumni Award for Innovation. Currently Dr Sakkab serves on the Board of Altria Group, Inc and chairs the innovation committee of the board. He is also a board member for Celltex, PharNext and Biowish Technologies where he serves as Chairman. He served on Givaudan's Board 2008-2015 and Deinove 2008-2016.

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Featured Keynote Programs

The dangers of narrowly defining victory

Lessons learned from multiple consumer product categories on the consequences of narrowly defining markets and brand equities. Sakkab will discuss his experiences from P&G and other consumer businesses.

Architecture must precede fast disruption

Having a disruptive technology is not enough for fast adoption. Sakkab will review the architectural thinking on enablers that must precede the introduction of a disruptive technology in order to speed up adoption. Sakkab will use examples from various industries to illustrate the key principles.

Open Innovation 15 years later

Open Innovation (OI) has flourished in the past 15 years since the initial publications in early 2000. Sakkab will discuss his experiences on implementing a successful OI program taking into consideration all the learnings from the past 15 years on good and bad practices.

R&D in a world of e-commerce

Consumers nowadays want to buy whatever they want from wherever they can and have it on their front doors now. This lends to opportunities to design products that lend themselves better to an e-commerce world. Sakkab will bring this discussion to life with a variety of examples.

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