Trig Innovation Sponsors PDMA’s 2012 Innovate Carolina Conference

Durham, North Carolina’s Trig Innovation is proud to partner with the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) as a platinum sponsor for the organization’s upcoming Innovate Carolina conference.

The Carolinas chapter of the PDMA will host its third annual innovation conference on Friday, April 20, 2012 at the Entrepreneurship Music Arts Collaboration (EMAC) at Raleigh, North Carolina’s historic Long View Center.  The conference will feature several leaders in corporate innovation, including Greg Hopper of NetApp and Iain Gray of Red Hat, as well as Stephen Shapiro, one of the foremost authorities on innovation culture and collaboration.

The conference will feature several presentations, along with multiple breakout sessions focused on a variety of topics centered on product design and development.  Speakers and panelists for the conference represent a broad range of industries, including companies and organizations like Bank of America, Innovare, the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Sealed Air, Gilero, Novant Health, and Burt’s Bees.

As part of the company’s platinum sponsorship, Trig Innovation will be working with the production team at PDMA Carolinas to ensure an optimal experience for attendees and speakers, according to Ty Hagler, Principal at Trig. “We’re excited to be partnering with the PDMA again for this great conference, as we did at last year’s event at UNC Charlotte and the previous year at UNC Chapel Hill,” stated Hagler.  “We’re thrilled to have this event in our back yard again this year, and we’ll be helping with video production, logo design, direct mail templates, and PowerPoint templates for the conference.”

According to Hagler, what sets the Innovate Carolina conference apart is the diversity of the industries represented, as well as the spectrum of opinions on innovation management offered by an unparalleled array of speakers. “I can honestly say that after each of the first two Innovate Carolina conferences, my team brought back a host of ideas that we immediately put into practice for the benefit of Trig clients. Last year, for example, we found ourselves stunned by the visionary ideas of New Kind’s David Burney, as well as the leadership paradigms explored by the Center for Creative Leadership’s David Magellan Horth.  We’re particularly excited to see that Mr. Horth will be sharing his wisdom with attendees again at this year’s conference.”

For more information on the Innovate Carolina conference, please visit the conference site and register for the event.  We look forward to meeting you there!

Press Release: Trig Innovation to Sponsor Innovate Carolina Conference in Charlotte

March 16, 2011 (DURHAM, NC)—Research Triangle,  NC innovation management firm Trig Innovation has agreed to sponsor the 2011 Innovate Carolina Conference in Charlotte, NC on April 15.

Innovate Carolina is an annual meeting hosted by the Carolinas chapter of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), a multi-industry trade group focused on educating product managers and developers as well as providing the development community with networking opportunities.  The theme for this year’s conference is “Open Innovation,” highlighting the process that companies follow when engaging outside consulting firms to aid them in the development of new products and services.

“Trig Innovation is proud to be a part of the sponsor group at this year’s Innovate Carolina Conference,” stated Ty Hagler, principal at the Durham, NC firm. “We’ve believe very strongly in the PDMA’s ongoing work to lift the innovation community nationwide, and we really appreciate what the Carolinas chapter does through efforts like Innovate Carolina to bring everyone in the community together. The team at Trig is excited about this year's theme of Open Innovation, a process that's pushing the design community's creative parameters to influence solutions for larger social problems and expanding sources for new ideas for companies.”

The one-day conference will take place at the Bonnie H. Cone University Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Registration begins at 8:30 am, and the conference will conclude with networking time ending at 6pm. For further details on registration, agenda, and speakers, go to the Innovate Carolina website.

About Trig Innovation

Trig Innovation is a Durham, NC-based innovation management consulting firm dedicated to strategies for the development of new products and services for inventors and corporate product and brand teams.