From Insight to Impact: Building What People Need
The Fusion Summit: R&D by Design
"Where user empathy fuels discovery."
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Meet Our Esteemed Speakers
De'Longhi Deutschland
Deutsche Bank
DWP Bank
DB Schenker
Helaba
Pfizer
BASF
JLL
Shell
Boehringer Ingelheim
De'Longhi Group
Glencore
About the Summit
Welcome, innovators, to the vibrant city of Amsterdam! On behalf of Keynotion, we are thrilled to open The Fusion Summit: R&D by Design 2026. This is more than a conference, it is a strategic convergence of the world’s most forward-thinking R&D leaders, designers, and scientists, united by a single purpose: to master the art and science of purposeful innovation.
We gather at a pivotal moment. The world now demands solutions that are not only technologically brilliant but also deeply human-centred and sustainable. The era of isolated research is giving way to a new paradigm where cutting-edge science must fuse with empathy and responsibility. Our theme, From Insight to Impact: Building What People Need, is designed to catalyse this essential transformation.
Across the next two days, you will experience a dynamic blend of visionary keynotes, real-world case studies, and interactive workshops. This is not passive listening but active collaboration: exploring how to embed design thinking into R&D pipelines, harness AI as a creative partner, and cultivate cultures that balance moonshots with measurable impact.
Thank you for investing in your leadership. Let us connect, collaborate, and begin the vital work of designing a better tomorrow, together. Welcome to The Fusion Summit 2026, where insight becomes impact.
What You'll Learn
Building the Augmented Lab of the Future: How AI, automation, and digital twins are reshaping discovery at speed and scale.
Designing R&D Pipelines Around Human Need: Practical design thinking strategies to embed empathy into every stage of innovation.
Sustainability as Strategy: Making ESG a core growth driver, not just a compliance exercise.
Agility at Scale: Creating adaptive R&D organisations that thrive in disruption and volatility.
The Ecosystem Advantage: Mastering open innovation with startups, academia, and cross-industry alliances.
Data as a Strategic Asset: Turning knowledge overload into sharper, faster, and smarter R&D decisions.
The Next-Gen Talent Blueprint: Building multidisciplinary teams that fuse science, design, and AI fluency.
Balancing the Portfolio: Managing moonshots and incremental innovations for both risk and reward.
Agenda Focus Areas
AI & the Augmented Lab
Design-Led Innovation
Sustainability as Strategy
Agility & Talent of Tomorrow
From Insight to Impact
Reasons to Attend
Master the role of AI in R&D: See how leaders are using AI and digital twins to accelerate discovery and decision making.
Put design thinking into practice: Learn how human centred design helps de risk innovation and create solutions people genuinely need.
Turn sustainability into a growth engine: Explore how ESG goals are becoming a competitive advantage, not just a compliance checkbox.
Build the R&D teams of tomorrow: Discover new approaches to developing agile, cross disciplinary talent for future challenges.
Go home with impact, not theory: Leave with practical frameworks and ideas you can apply immediately in your organisation.
Sponsors
Alight with Sustainability leaders. Explore sponsorship benefits.
Reinvigoration
Reinvigoration is a leading global expert operations consultancy and enterprise platform provider enabling organisations to transform their operations and deliver excellence with certainty, every time.
We partner with operations leaders, supporting them in transforming their operations and solving their challenges whilst enabling a culture of excellence that lasts long into the future. And as previous operations leaders ourselves, we truly know what it’s like to be in their shoes.
Website: www.reinvigoration.com
Mastek
PRIME BPM
Established in 2005, PRIME BPM is an end-to-end Business Process Management organisation, supporting customers through its wide portfolio of products and services, including PRIME BPM Software, BPM Training and Fixed Cost Process Mapping Service. PRIME BPM’s cloud-based Business Process Management Software is designed for both business users and business process experts. With its intuitive and user-friendly interface, individuals can easily and accurately map, analyse, improve and monitor their business processes. PRIME BPM has over a decade of experience in driving operational excellence and process transformation journey of leading organisatons, including Pfizer, Airbus, Queensland Police, New South Wales Health, and many more.
Website: www.primebpm.com
Bindtuning
Website: https://bindtuning.com/
SS&C Blue Prism
SS&C Blue Prism is a global intelligent automation (IA) leader serving over 2,800 organisations. Our cutting-edge Intelligent Automation platform offers comprehensive visibility, orchestration, and control solutions, enabling enterprises to oversee workforce management and end-to-end processes effectively. To learn more visit www.blueprism.com and follow us on Twitter @blue_prism and LinkedIn.
Fujitsu
Stefanini
Website: https://stefanini.com/en
Check-6
Website: https://checksix.com/
Media Partners
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