Governing Innovation at Scale: Inside VALE's $400M+ RD&I Portfolio

Webinar Best Practices Innovation Management Innovation Portfolio Success Story

When: 18th Mar, 2026

12:00 ET | 17:00 CET

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.

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

A chance to engage with the speakers, ask practical questions, and exchange perspectives with peers on governing and scaling innovation in real-world settings.