Stuart is currently a Senior Director at Procter & Gamble leading Open Innovation in the Fabric & Home Care business unit. He has more than 26 years experience working and leading R&D and multifunctional teams innovating for the FMCG business. He has worked across brands, product platforms and geographical regions delivering disruptive, transformative and commercial innovation to consumer & professional markets. He has lived and worked in the UK, Belgium, USA and China and is experienced and passionate about front end innovation and using open innovation and lean start up principles to explore new innovation areas with start ups & scale ups in the consumer goods arena. He has a particular focus on Safe and Sustainable, Digital, Hygiene domains & new trends and currently runs an innovation incubator, InQbet Campus, at P&G’s Brussels Campus.

Jessica Voss has 20+ years of experience in international innovation and strategy. She leads the customer-centric innovation activities such as workshops, conferences, webinars etc. at the DHL Innovation Center near Bonn, Germany. Being part of DHL’s cross-divisional unit Customer Solutions & Innovation (CSI), she is passionate about connecting with customers across various industry sectors, business partners, and key corporate stakeholders of Deutsche Post DHL group to shape a collaborative innovation agenda. Prior to her current role, Jessica has held various positions in Innovation Management, Strategy and Business Development. Jessica’s career began as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. She holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cologne.

Linda serves as Head of the Gore Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, exploring how Gore's advanced materials can play a unique role in white space areas for Gore through strategic partnerships and new business development. In addition to her external facing role, Linda has collaboratively led teams to receive additional rounds of internal funding to validate concepts for new product opportunities as an internal startup founder.

Linda led the design and creation of the Gore Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, where she took the facility from its original concept to its execution, completion, and launch. In addition to creating an inspiring physical space to foster innovation, she established the operating model and key performance metrics; while also expanding areas of exploration, establishing partnerships with startups, and advancing relationships and idea generation across the Enterprise.

Prior to her time in innovation, Linda led new product development teams from ideation to commercial launch, drove technical project development and resourcing, and obtained two patents. Linda is currently getting an EMBA at The Wharton School and previously earned Master of Science degrees in both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Stephen is a design and innovation leader fueled by helping organizations rediscover the human side of business. For over 16 years, he’s been pioneering human-centered design across Nestlé as a way to enable and accelerate innovation efforts that both drive external business results while shaping cultural ways of working. He currently leads Category Experience Design at Nestlé Purina North America including strategic direction over their U.S. HQ-based Retail Innovation Center (or RIC) in Saint Louis, Missouri. He holds 17 patents, has guest lectured at Stanford, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design, 3 IDSA Conferences, and COCABiz, and his work has been a featured in several publications including Global Village, EQ Quarterly, WDCast, the St. Louis Business Journal and IDSA. He is a proud St. Louisan who enjoys simple things like ice cold beer and making things.

Luc Dusart is a marketer at Dow, where he has worked since 1993. He has over 25 years of international business experience in the Chemical Industry.

Luc Dusart started his career in FMCG in Italy at Procter & Gamble as market analyst in the household care group. He then worked as Junior Product Manager in the Paint & Coating industry at Boero in Rome, Italy.

Luc joined Dow Corning in 1993 as market analyst in Packaging Innovation Team for 5 years. He then took the position of Global Marketing Manager for Release Coatings and Silicone PSA’s for 8 years. In 2008, Luc moved to the Business & Technology Incubator and led the marketing effort of multiple long-term R&D programs in the field of agroscience, energy storage, lubricants and hotmelt adhesives. Since 2020, Luc is the Global marketing manager for the Mobility & Transportation Electronics Market. He joined Dow in 2016 through the Dow Corning acquisition.

Luc earned his M.S. in Commercial Engineering from the University of Louvain in Belgium and the University Bocconi in Milan, Italy. He participated to a marketing management program at Insead, France.

Lean & Design Thinker, Agile Believer, Digital Transformer

Dr. Samuel West is a licensed psychologist and has a PhD in Organizational Psychology. His research focuses on creating climates for innovation by encouraging experimentation and exploration. In 2017 he founded the Museum of Failure showcasing over a 100 innovation failures from around the world. The aim of the museum is to stimulate productive discussions about the important role of failure for innovation and to increase organizational acceptance of failure. The touring exhibit has been to Sweden, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Shanghai and a permanent museum will soon open in Spain.

Tim is currently the Head of the Global Incubator at Innoway - the only State-owned incubator focusing on international startups [TBC], fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior, he covered the role of Strategy Department Director at 36Kr incubator. He has been actively involved in the startup business since 2011 and he is one of the key-figures in bringing together startups and corporations, by working closely with - to name a few - Intel, Haier, Orange, Baidu. He studied and worked in Canada and Europe for 15 years and has been a mentor and a judge for several national and international startup competitions. He is currently focusing on assisting international startups interested in entering the Chinese market, leveraging his extensive national and international network.