1. TRAILBLAZING THE MERRIMACK VALLEY
OPEN INNOVATION CLUSTER
GLOBILIZATION IS A POWERFUL MARCH 20, 2013
force that makes large scale regional open 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
innovation essential for business and economic NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
development. To thrive, a region needs a cluster HAVERHILL, MA
of entrepreneurs and talented workers, a strong
education network, collaborative business TRAILBLAZING THE MERRIMACK VALLEY
practices and tools, as well as access to capital brings the essential participants of an open
resources and local and global markets. Greater innovation environment together including:
Haverhill and the Merrimack Valley region has all
of the components of the cluster and is an ideal - Entrepreneurs and Startups
place for developing innovative businesses. - Students and Universities
- Government Leaders
The concept of open innovation brings together - Funders
internal R&D talent with entrepreneurial partners - Corporations and Customers
to share expertise and intellectual property for
rapid co-development of products and services. The conference will discuss:
- Collaborative business practices and tools
This conference uniquely introduces open - Promoting education/awareness of the open
innovation to stakeholders and addresses how innovation process
to leverage ideas from our regional ecosystem - Addressing factors to consider to implement
to innovate better and faster for sustainable an open innovation marketplace
economic development. - Facilitating networking and mentoring
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS RESERVATIONS & SPONSORSHIP
TRAILBLAZING THE MERRIMACK VALLEY is
John Harthorne, Founder and CEO of
seeking sponsorship at all levels. This is a free
MassChallenge, a startup accelerator and
event thanks to the generousity of our sponsors,
competition designed to catalyze a startup
MassTech’s Innovation Institute, the Greater
renaissance around the world!
Haverhill Foundation and the City of Haverhill.
Jon A. Fredrickson, Vice President of
For reservations and sponsorship please contact
InnoCentive, Inc., a challenge marketplace that
the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce:
leverages crowd sourcing for solutions.
Jennifer Cantwell at jen@haverhillchamber.com
or call 978-373-5663. RESERVATION DEADLINE:
MARCH 15, 2013.

2. AGENDA MARCH 20, 2013
TIME TOPIC SPEAKER/PANEL MEMBERS
6:00 p Networking and hors d’oeuvres Master of Ceremonies
Alice Mann, Team Haverhill
6:30 p Welcome Mayor James Fiorentini of Haverhill
6:45 p Keynote: How business accelerators John Harthorne, CEO and Founder
enable open innovation from the bottom-up MassChallenge
7:15 p Keynote: How challenge marketplaces enable Jon A. Fredrickson, Vice President
open innovation from the top-down InnoCentive
7:45 p Haverhill Hardware Horizons (H3C) Challenge Rich Breault, President Lightspeed MFG
H3C Finalists - 2 Minute Product Overviews Energy Harvesters, LLC
JP Wakim, Mobile Password Vault
Rotary Robotics
Bounce Imaging
Dynamo Micropower
Loci Controls, Inc.
8:15 p Forum/Panel Discussion: Jon A. Frederickson, Vice President, Innocentive
to Business practice and tools for Open John Harthorne, CEO and Founder MassChallenge
9:30 p Innovation in the Merrimack Valley Dr. Lane Glenn, President, NECC
James DiBurro, President, Round Rock Consulting
Pat Larkin, Director, MassTech’s Innovation Institute
Jay Ferrandini, Director of Engineering, Cisco Systems
Josh Huston, Information Security Advisor and Founder, Exultium
SPONSORS