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"Open Innovation: Success Stories” including panelists: Mike Waite, President Menasha Packaging, Jackie Hutter, Open Innovation IP Strategist & Attorney; Matt Hlavin, CEO Thogus and PolyOne Panelists: Mike Waite, President, Menasha Packaging (www.menashapackaging.com) Menasha is of the largest and longest (160+yrs) privately held North American packaging companies. Mike has led Menasha’s transformation from a commodity supplier to an innovative, customer-centric designer and manufacturer. He will talk about their OI collaboration with customers, including General Mills’ GM’s G-WIN platform. Jackie Hutter, President, The Hutter Group (http://thehuttergroup.com/) Jackie, named 1 of the top 250 Global IP strategies by Intellectual Asset Management, is a patent attorney as well as a chemist. She was the Senior Patent Counsel at Georgia-Pacific and various Chemical businesses. Jackie will talk about how to use IP strategically in Open Innovation, managing opportunity and risk of intellectual assets Matt Hlavin, CEO – Thogus (with PolyOne) (www.thogus.com) Thogus, a 3rd generation family business in the ‘plastic molding injection’ industry is quickly becoming the Google of Manufacturing. Matt will discuss, with one of his PolyOne colleagues, their OI collaboration resulting in the manufacture of environmentally safe radiation shielding components for the medical and many other industries using tungsten filled polymers instead of lead. Matt will probably bring some cool ‘toys’ with him as well. Details on registration will follow Venue: Center for Innovation & Growth, 340 Front Street, Berea, OH Breakfast and Lunch will be served.