Blister Summit Panel Session Topics & Speakers + Product Design & Innovation

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re giving you an update on the topics we’ll be discussing at our upcoming Blister Summit, and telling you who the athletes, founders, product designers, and snow safety experts are that we’ll be discussing these things with. Then, in case you missed it, we’re reposting one of our favorite conversations we’ve ever had on product design in innovation, which ran previously on our Off The Couch podcast. It’s a must-listen for anyone interested in design and innovation.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Summit A, Feb 21st (0:40)
How We Review Gear (2:48)
Ski Bindings (3:15)
Athlete Panel (4:51)
Ski Design (5:28)
Blister Labs (8:10)
AUA: Ask Us Anything (9:37)
Summit B, Feb 25th (10:09)
How We Review Gear (10:10)
Ski Boot Design (10:45)
Backcountry Safety & Safety Eqpt. (12:11)
Athlete Panel (14:31)
Women in the Ski Industry (16:52)

Product Design & Innovation (19:33)
What is Speedland? (24:27)
Nike Basketball (26:32)
Kevin Fallon’s background (29:09)
Dave Dombrow’s background (32:51)
How did you get jobs at Nike, Under Armour? (36:04)
Why do brands fail at moving into other product categories? (48:24)
Starting Speedland (53:56)
Trail shoe design (58:57)
Incorporating dual BOA dials (1:08:45)
Pricing & Value (1:13:59)
Removable carbon plate (1:18:02)
1st shoe: SL:PDX (1:19:56)
Speedland’s ‘Give Back’ program (1:26:07)
Optimizing for specific environments (1:27:37)
Price & Hyper Performance (1:29:28)
runspeedland.com (1:33:26)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.1	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over
0:15.5	at blisterreview.com.
0:20.0	Okay, it is currently 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, February 17th.
0:26.8	And I'm not sure if you've heard, but we have a blister summit that is launching this
0:33.3	Sunday afternoon. So we have a few things still going on here, a few logistics that we're
0:39.2	taken care of. So we're going to do a bit of a different episode of Gear 30 this week. And
0:44.3	mostly what I want to do today, well, there's two things. What I want to do to get started here
0:50.4	is basically give you all an update on some of the panel session conversations that we're
0:57.4	going to be having at our Blister Summit and tell you a bit more about some of the particular
1:03.4	people that we're going to have on these panel sessions. Now, as all of you know, we can hardly
1:09.5	say that the world is like back to normal or
1:12.6	anything. So there have been a number of moving parts as we are assembling this, you know,
1:18.3	whole Blister Summit thing. So first of all, if you've been living under a rock and you don't know
1:23.2	what the Blister Summit is, go to the link in the show notes of this episode where it says Blister
1:28.3	Summit, click on that, or go to the navigation bar of our website, blisterreview.com, where it says
1:36.7	Blister Summit, and you will find all the information there. And folks, as you're going to hear
1:42.3	just from the panel sessions that we're going to be talking about here,
1:46.2	there's going to be a lot of really cool conversations and a lot of really cool people descending upon Mount Crested Butte starting this Sunday.
1:56.3	So come be a part of this.
1:58.3	Come ask questions.
1:59.4	Come ski with a number of these incredible
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