Speaker:
Mr. David Newman
Engineering Consultant, The Coca-Cola Company

Seminar Topic:
New Product Innovation: The development process
 
Abstract of Talk:
Why do successful companies like 3M, Corning Glass, Exxon Chemical, and Coca-Cola continue to churn out successful, innovative products? This talk will compare these successful companies with the average company, and highlight one cornerstone of their success—the development process. David Newman will talk about a model development process that the best companies are using in order to have quicker, more successful new product launches.

Speaker Bio:
David Newman is an engineering consultant at The Coca-Cola Company working in Global Innovation. He has had a 25+ year career in the arena of new product development. With a background in digital/analog and embedded design, Newman has worked at four different companies in various capacities over his career. Starting out, Newman worked as a designer/programmer on marine navigational equipment. He was also involved with new product development for the military. He has worked with The Coca-Cola Company for over 12 years as a project manager/technical lead on several new products in the areas of vending and
fountain dispensing equipment.

Newman obtained a B.S.E.E. from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S.E.E. from Georgia Tech. He holds 10 patents in the area of fountain dispensing equipment. He lives in Dunwoody, Georgia.