Speaker Bio

To achieve maximum ongoing results, innovation can't be a one-time fad, but needs to be embedded within an organization's culture. Learn from some who made the change, how they did it and about the benefits they continue to realize.

Mr. Spradlin will discuss how InnoCentive works to radically change corporate culture by "bringing the outsider in" through crowdsourcing, which accesses the collective intelligence of external scientists and engineers around the world.

Prior to his role at InnoCentive, Dwayne Spradlin served as President at business information company Hoover's Inc. and before that he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Starcite, Inc., an online meeting and events planning business. Spradlin served as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Verticalnet Inc., the world's largest portfolio of online industry marketplaces. Earlier, Spradlin was a Director in the E-Business and Emerging Technology practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Chicago.