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The Future of Innovation: Lessons from the 2026 North America Breakthrough Innovation Winners
Discover the Innovations Shaping the Future of Growth
September 23, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET
Webinar Overview
For more than 15 years, NIQ BASES has identified the world’s most successful product innovations, recognizing the launches that have reshaped categories, solved real consumer needs, and delivered exceptional business results. Through our annual Breakthrough Innovation Awards, we’ve celebrated more than 1,300 innovation success stories across global markets.
Now it’s time to explore the latest winners and uncover the strategies that separate breakthrough ideas from the rest.
In this webinar, we will:
- Uncover the innovation trends driving growth today, including the rise of functional wellness, protein-enhanced products, better-for-you beverages, and GLP-1 influenced consumption behaviors.
- Explain what sets breakthrough innovations apart, and how top-performing brands are successfully embedding health benefits, convenience, and engaging experiences into their product offerings.
- Identify emerging opportunities that can help fuel your next innovation pipeline and create lasting competitive advantage.
- Share an exclusive first look at “Wavemakers,” a new class of recent launches demonstrating exceptional early-market performance and offering clues to where innovation is headed next.
What Makes a Breakthrough Innovation?
Great innovation is about more than a new ingredient, feature, or technology.
The most successful innovations solve meaningful consumer problems and deliver experiences that outperform alternatives in the marketplace. That’s why NIQ BASES continuously monitors new product launches across global markets, evaluating their sales performance, longevity, growth, and consumer relevance. The innovations with the greatest impact earn recognition as NIQ Breakthrough Innovations.
Our experts will share the latest findings from the 2026 Breakthrough Innovation Awards and reveal the common success factors driving top-performing launches around the world.
