Claire-Juliette Beale
Speaking and Writing

Speaking

Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)

2007, 2008, and 2009, Presentations and workshops on Personas and Scenarios technique for user and customer-centered new product development and marketing.  October presentation avalaible on Slideshare

March 9, 2009 in Paris, France. ESSEC business school. Presentation on New paths to discovering your customer needs and to really innovate". For details (in French) click on this link


PDMA Annual Conference, 2005, San Diego, moderator: Market Research: Emerging Methodologies & Techniques: Breakthroughs in Consumer Insights

International Houseware Show 2008, presentation on the topic of A Stranger for Dinner: Insights Into Designing a Green Product for Chinese consumers

National Hardware Show 2007, presentation to the Women in the Hardware Industry Association on the topic of Designing for Women Experience

Shanxi Province Export Authorities, China, 2006, presentation on international marketing and brand development

SEMO, Paris (French market industry conference), 2000.
Conference presentation on global multilingual online market research, together with 3M and NovaTest. Workshop on Internet Research, covering online quantitative and qualitative tools, together with NovaTest.

Advancia Business School, Paris, France, 2006. Women and Entrepreneurship conference. On international entrepreneurship.

Maryland University, Robert H. Smith School of Business (MBA program), 2002, and The George Washington University, Elliot School of Business, 2003, on entrepreneurship


Writing


For Visions, the newsletter of the Product Development and Management Association, a 2-part article on the broad applications of online communities to new product development, from the front-end to commercialization. Part 1,
December 2008, "Online Communities Shake Up NPD", cover story about Online Communities.  "Best of Visions 2008 Award".  Part 2, March 2009, "Create Your Own Online Community - How to Avoid the Pitfalls". 

For Visions, September 2008, article about Personas and Scenarios technique

For Business Week, 2007, article about Innovation in China entitled Z-Park: China's Silicon Valley

For GMI Quarterly, the quarterly newsletter of Global Market Insite, 2000-2001, contributions on online market research.


Other

University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flager Business School,
2009, MBA Innovation & Product Development, project evaluation 

University of Pennsylvania, Weiss Tech House, PennVention innovation program, 2004 to 2006, student mentoring and project evaluations

INPEX, The Invention Show, 2004 and 2006, mentor and speaker

1st Franco-American Entrepreneurs Forum, Paris, 2004, organized by the French Senate, guest of the Department of Commerce International Trade Administration