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SUMMARY:Campus Lecture: Nicolas Cudré-Mauroux
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Programme\n\n5:15 pm  Doors open\n\n5:30 pm  Welcome Address
 \nJan Hesthaven\nVice President for Academic Affairs\n\n5:40 pm  Campus L
 ecture entitled "Innovation portfolio management" \nNicolas Cudré-Mauroux
 \nChief Technology Officer at SICPA\nEPFL Alumni Awards 2019\n\n6:30 pm  
 Q&A moderated by Véronique Michaud\nAssociate Professor\, Laboratory for 
 Processing of Advanced Composites\n\n6:45 pm  Aperitif and networking \n\
 n7:45 pm  End of the event\n\nSummary of the conference: The most critica
 l operational role of anyone in charge of R&D in an innovation-driven comp
 any is to make decisions about what to focus on … and what to stop doing
  to free up resources.This presentation will describe tools and best pract
 ices designed to help making these tough choices required to build a portf
 olio of innovation projects which is well aligned with an organization’s
  strategic goals. These goals include financial ones but not only\; Critic
 al aspects like sustainability must be considered at the very beginning of
  projects to ensure the development of “sustainable by design” solutio
 ns. We will discuss practical methodologies used to develop and assess val
 ue propositions of potential projects even before they are initiated.\n\nA
 bout the speaker: Nicolas Cudré-Mauroux joined SICPA SA in January 2024 a
 s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in charge of Research and Innovation acti
 vities for the group. Nicolas spent the first part of his career with DuPo
 nt de Nemours where\, from 1988 to 2015\, he had multiple roles in R&D\, m
 arketing\, business development and M&A in several divisions dedicated to 
 high performance materials and food ingredients. These roles were based in
  Switzerland\, United States\, Canada and Denmark. In 2015\, Nicolas joine
 d Solvay\, a Belgian company active in chemistry\, polymers and composite 
 materials\, as CTO. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium\, of th
 e Board of Directors of CNRS (France) and of the Board of Governors of the
  Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago (USA). In 2019\, he received the 
 “EPFL Alumni Award” and the “European CTO of the year – Large comp
 anies” prize from the EIRMA association. Nicolas is Swiss and was born i
 n Luxembourg. He has a MS and a PhD in Materials Science from the Swiss In
 stitute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne\, Switzerland.\n\nThe conference 
 will be held in French with slides in English.\n 
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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