Dear RMU Community,

The Center for Innovation and Outreach invites you to attend our second Virtual Innovation Speaker Series event, featuring Christine Furstoss.

Innovation Success and Failure:  Lessons Learned

Christine Furstoss, former General Electric Officer and CTO, RMU SEMS BOV member

Friday, February 26, 2021

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

During this installment of our Speaker Series, Christine will highlight her lessons learned on the innovation process and characteristics of successful teams and endeavors.  Included will be examples of innovation efforts across multiple industries, highlighting both successes and failures and the contributing factors to the outcomes.  Christine will present the concept that innovation requires system-level thinking and the collaboration and interaction of STEM advancements and business systems.  Christine was the lead for additive manufacturing at GE and has given several TED talks on additive manufacturing and innovation.

Please register in advance for this event using the following link: 

https://rmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xIYr3hfMRtWyB5tXFMfXqw

Video of First Speaker Series Event:  If you missed our first speaker series event featuring Dr. Anthony So of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and President Dr. Chris Howard, the recording of the event can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbREn_01Vg8&feature=youtu.be.  A link to the video can also be found on our Center for Innovation and Outreach website.

For more information, please contact Dr. Rika Carlsen at carlsen@rmu.edu.