Linx/AS, industry thought-leader on innovation & NPDI, sponsors the inaugural event produced by Consumer Goods Technology

September 25-27 2006, New York, NY

Consumer Goods Technology, a primary source for print/online publication and networking events for consumer goods executives, kicked off its first Growth & Innovation Forum in New York this September.

Linx/AS was a proud sponsor of the event, which hosted over 85 of the industry's top leaders in innovation and technology. The three days of presentations and panel discussions—dealing with everything from innovation networks to speed to market— was headlined by the following speakers:

• Kimberly-Clark Corporation
  • Cheryl Perkins
    SVP & Chief Innovation Officer
• Kraft Foods Inc.
  • Todd Abraham, VP Global Research & Technology Strategy
  • Nanako Mura, Associate Director–Open Innovation
• The Limited Brands, LLC
  • Holger Mueller, SVP Commercialization Services, Beauty Avenues
• The Hershey Company
  • Thomas Hernquist, SVP & Global Chief Growth Officer
• General Mills
  • Bernadette Piacek-Llanes, VP Open Innovation & Baking Products
• The Kroger Co.
  • Nick Hahn, Director of Corporate Brands
• McDonald's Corporation
  • Catherine Adams, Corporate VP, Worldwide Quality, Food Safety & Nutrition
• Sara Lee Corporation
  • Paul Chaudury, VP Innovation

In just over six years, Linx/AS has quietly earned a reputation as the leader in PLM for process industries, ringing up one client success story after another. Linx/AS’s presence at the forum underscored the key to its success: leveraging the investment of CPG companies in SAP to align technology with innovation processes.

Alongside Linx/AS

Other sponsors of the Growth & Innovation Forum included:

• SAP
• IBM
• Deloitte
• Nine Sigma
• Infor
• and others