How do you bring consistency to innovation decisions across projects with very different scopes, risks, and timelines? In this live session, VALE shares how it applies stage gates and portfolio-level governance to run complex innovation initiatives at scale, and how dedicated customer success support plays a critical role in making this work day to day.
Governing Innovation at Scale: Inside VALE's $400M+ RD&I Portfolio
When: 18th Mar, 2026
12:00 ET | 17:00 CET
Session Takeaways
Portfolio
Governance
A practical look at how stage gates and portfolio-level governance are used to run complex innovation programs at scale.
Unified Innovation Operations
How VALE brings different types of innovation-related work into one operational model for better visibility and coordination.
Customer Success as Partnership
How hands-on customer success support helps adapt the platform and approach as the innovation program grows in scope and complexity.
The Speakers
Reinaldo Colares
Senior Specialist Engineer – Innovation
Reinaldo Colares works at the intersection of innovation strategy and execution, helping structure and govern large-scale innovation portfolios within VALE. With a background in management consulting and experience as a startup co-founder, he brings a pragmatic, operator-led perspective to applying stage-gate frameworks, prioritization models, and portfolio discipline in complex, real-world environments.
Emma Sendra
Director, Innovation Solutions
Emma Adam Sendra helps enterprise innovation leaders translate corporate strategy into real-world innovation execution as an Innovation Management Solutions Manager at Qmarkets. She supports programs from early design through scale, with a focus on structure, adoption, and outcomes.
Daniel Misico
Customer Success Manager
Daniel Misico is a Customer Success Manager at Qmarkets with over a decade of experience supporting enterprise SaaS customers globally. He partners closely with innovation leaders to help operationalize and scale complex innovation programs over time.
The Schedule
00:00
Introduction & Context
Emma opens the session by sharing the background of the relationship between VALE and Qmarkets and setting the stage for the innovation governance story that follows.
10:00
VALE's Story
Reinaldo outlines how VALE structures and governs its innovation portfolio, walking through the frameworks, stage gates, and decision processes used to manage a large and diverse R&D program in practice.
30:00
Partnering for Success
A look at how VALE and Qmarkets collaborate in practice, from adapting the platform to complex needs to uncovering new opportunities through an ongoing partnership.
45:00
Q&A
Attendees ask practical questions, and exchange perspectives with peers on governing and scaling innovation in real-world settings.
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