When we come together, we create and innovate! Demonstrating how you can bring previously unconnected professional groups together to interact for the transfer of knowledge and unique skill-building opportunities, Pumps & Pipes, a Houston-based interdisciplinary association of STEM professionals, will show us how innovation and new ideas can be born through a model of unlikely collaboration. In it’s place add “Presentation and discussion will highlight the power of facilitating non-traditional intersections and the strategic incentives for doing so.

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Pumps & Pipes
The Power of Cross–Boundary Collaboration

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Session Outline
I. About Pumps & Pipes
III. Facilitating Intersections
II. Some Examples of What We Do
IV. Strategic Incentives
V. Final Thought

3. Pumps & Pipes is an association of medical, energy, aerospace,
academic and community professionals and leaders…..
www.pumpsandpipes.com

4. World’s largest
medical center
World energy capital Center for Human Spaceflight
“Neighbors talking over the fence”

5. We were founded (and named) during a 2007 airplane ride….
Long, thin tubes
Pumps
Pipes
Flow Assurance

8. Now in our 13th Year
“The solution to my problem may very
well be found in my neighbor’s toolkit”
“The best four letter word in the English
language is FREE! “
Two Enduring Premises

9. Some Examples

10. Calcification
Sites
Calcification
Sites
Stenotic
Lumen
From CT
Image
3D Printed
Model
Patient Specific
Heart Model

11. Patient Specific
Heartbeat Simulator

12. MRI Flow Imaging

13. A Landmark Innovation….
With a little help from….

14. The Neighbor’s Toolkit
Precise flow Through Rocks Precise flow Through Heart Valves

15. A Subsequent Referral Patient

16. Who In Turn Referred A Friend from NASA

17. Making “Aha” Happen
Facilitating Intersections

18. Hang Out Together

19. Promote Conversation
• How did you do that?
• We have the same problem!
• I wish there were a better way.

20. Connect

21. Include

22. Norway Pumps & Pipes Agreement
Sustain and Grow

23. Strategic Incentives

24. Unique Access
Special guests get special treatment
• IP barriers are lower
• Aspirational vs. transactional

25. Benchmarking By Analogy
• Benchmarking of the familiar encourages similarity
Dental Biofilms Pipeline Biofilms
• Benchmarking by analogy drives creativity

26. Development vs. Discovery
• Development comes from improving the familiar
• Discoveries are made by looking beyond the familiar
Wyoming
Largest wooden schooner (1909)
UP 844
Last steam locomotive delivered to Union Pacific (1944)

27. Final Thought

28. Is to bring together Ability and Opportunity with Example
Our Job

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Thank you!