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title: Harvesting Innovation — Front End of Innovation’s Seth Adler
description: In this episode of VentureFuel Visionaries, Harvesting Innovation, we speak with FEI’s Seth Adler.
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# Harvesting Innovation — Front End of Innovation’s Seth Adler
Published by [Vanessa Rosado](https://blog.venturefuel.net/pov/author/vanessa-rosado) on Apr 30, 2025 11:55:20 AM
### What happens when business strategy and innovation collide?
This week’s VentureFuel Visionary is FEI's Seth Adler, the head of IMI Media at Informa and a driving force behind All Things Insights and All Things Innovation.
Seth has spent his career bringing people together through dynamic content, including events, podcasts, and written works. He also plays a pivotal role in shaping conversations at industry-leading events like Front End of Innovation (FEI), where he facilitates impactful discussions on topics such as AI trends, business transformation, and consumer insights.
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## Episode Highlights
- **FEI’s Evolution** – Seth explains how the Front End of Innovation (FEI) conference has transformed over 21 years — from a focus on big, breakthrough ideas to a more structured approach that aligns innovation with business strategy.
- **Harvesting Innovation** – The 2025 theme, “Harvesting Innovation: Sowing the Seeds of Future Growth,” emphasizes the importance of executing ideas and not just brainstorming them.
- **AI at the Enterprise Level** – Seth discusses insights from IMI Media’s “No Hype AI Roundtables,” where over 300 corporations share anonymous, real-world use cases of AI adoption.
- **Structuring FEI for Human + Machine Collaboration** – FEI 2025 is organized around three pillars: Human Intelligence (Day 1), Artificial Intelligence (Day 2), and Collective Intelligence (Day 3).
- **Corporate Collaboration** – Seth emphasizes the event’s focus on meaningful corporate collaboration. By curating a group of director- and VP-level decision-makers, FEI ensures attendees can share and learn from each other.
VentureFuel builds and accelerates innovation programs for industry leaders by helping them unlock the power of External Innovation via startup collaborations.
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