WNY Chapter President Katherine O'Brien welcomes attendees to the morning conference held at Monroe Community College.
John Osterhout, Director of Marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, shares his experiences and lessons learned from developing high-tech products with business partners in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Dave Parsons, Director of the Industrial Design and Human Interaction Group at Xerox Corporation spoke about the cultural aspects of design collaboration across multiple continents.
Christian Gabel, a Principal at PRTM, shares findings from a recent research study on Co-Development and insights on how to manage open-innovation in co-development alliances.
The MCC Bookstore set-up quite a display of books on new product development and related topics.
Boardmember Paul Jaynes peruses the latest books on new product development.
WNY PDMA display attracts new members.
Board member Ernie Thompson networks with other attendees over breakfast.
Board member Win Trafton enjoys the morning presentations.
Greg Smiley and Stan Caplan engage John Stanton in lively discussion. John was the winner of the NPD Book drawing.
