Permission-Based Innovation: How to Innovate Like a Rebel by Knowing Your Boundaries

Dave Farmer

Calling all rebels. Get ready to embrace a counterintuitive approach to preparing for the future. In this session we’ll dive into real-world examples of experience innovation haves and have nots, fails and successes, rules and exceptions, highlighting the lessons brands learned (or got burned on) and how you can know the rules so that you can break them. Leah Cotterman …

E-commerce Disruption: Selfcare Implications

Dave Farmer

E-commerce and retail overall are changing at increasing speed. The ways to market, sell, touch, service and deliver to the customer are becoming both more plentiful and more sophisticated. While this can be daunting to retail and brand leadership, it also creates tremendous opportunity. In this session, we’ll make sense of the underlying drivers of e-commerce innovation and explore how …

E-commerce Disruption: Selfcare Implications

Dave Farmer

E-commerce and retail overall are changing at increasing speed. The ways to market, sell, touch, service and deliver to the customer are becoming both more plentiful and more sophisticated. While this can be daunting to retail and brand leadership, it also creates tremendous opportunity. In this session, we’ll make sense of the underlying drivers of e-commerce innovation and explore how …

The Rise of the Anxiety Economy

Dave Farmer

While advances in technology have raised economic productivity and overall standards of living, it has also inadvertently cultivated significant social and environmental/ecological concerns, which in turn are escalating our collective and individual anxiety. The stats are scary as we consider the rise of stress, anxiety and depression-related tendencies, behaviors and illnesses, ranging from heavy alcohol consumption and mild insomnia to …

The Heart of the Possible: Transforming Healthcare Outcomes

Dave Farmer

Presenting how information collected via wearable, implantable and environmental sensors can be personalized to improve patient outcomes. Transforming how healthcare is delivered and managed using self-care devices and apps. Based on my personal experience as a long-time heart patient, athlete, and technology professionals. Heidi Dohse Sr. Program Manager: GCP Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google

Health and Wellness: A Story to be Told

Dave Farmer

In health & wellness, retailers are in the ironic role of shaking things up and creating a battle for the nation’s healthcare services dollar. They are rewriting the rules on how to deliver consumer-centered healthcare that is cheaper to build and operate and more accessible and convenient for consumers. Retailers have an opportunity to fully integrate these services into their …

Partnering with Healthcare Startups

Dave Farmer

How Johnson & Johnson, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, embrace the external ecosystem and is committed to partnering with startups and early-stage companies to drive Innovation. From R&D collaborations to equity investments to JLABS incubators, Johnson & Johnson believes that a great idea can truly come from anywhere. Stephanie Dhanda Sr. Director – Consumer Scientific Innovation, Johnson & …

Healthy Food & Healthy Diet Counseling: Side by Side in Supermarkets

Dave Farmer

Grocery store chains have long employed dietitians, but these nutrition experts are now expanding their reach by offering in-store nutrition counseling. It’s an effective way to reach customers, but until the dietitians accept health insurance, customers won’t be able to realize the full potential of this offering. By facilitating insurance reimbursement of nutrition claims, billing platform company Healthy Bytes is …

Food As Medicine: You Are What You Eat & The Retail Opportunity

Dave Farmer

In this compelling and interactive session, Phil Lempert, The SupermarketGuru(R), discusses the major consumer-driven selfcare and retail trends for the coming year and moderates a discussion with three leading retail dietitians who will explore how these trends will impact the new health and wellness mindset inside the store. Learn about how brick and mortar plays a unique role in leveraging …