Dr. Dirk Voelkel, Chief Technology Officer, Innovation and Analytics Life Science, joined GE Healthcare Life Sciences in July 2012. In his role he manages the R&D and technology portfolio of GE Life Sciences and the Life Science innovation activities. Previously, Dr. Voelkel headed the Research and Technology department in Roche Diagnostics Diabetes Care Mannheim, developing new technologies to address the needs of diabetic patients world wide. In prior roles he was a technology scout in the San Francisco bay area and a project leader in R&D, developing systems for glucose monitoring. Before joining industry, Dr. Voelkel was a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for Fluid Dynamics in Göttingen, Germany and Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA. He received a doctorate and diploma for Physics of the University of Göttingen. Dr. Voelkel holds 8 patents.
Our culture embraces external thinking and invites cutting-edge approaches to innovation. We in GE apply FastWorks as a framework to embed entrepreneurial best practices into our management discipline to help us improve the way we work.
An overview will be provided on how we are acting more like a startup, applying lean thinking and other methodologies to maximize customer value with minimum effort to grow the business. We will demonstrate our passion for partnering with our customers to deliver better outcomes to solve some of the most challenging industry problems.
We will share our experience from this transformational journey to a new cultural mind-set.
- Innovation Culture and Organizing for Growth
- Lean Startup, Collaboration with Startups and CV
- Track Talk