A contemporary/abstract artist and rising star in the Native art world, Marla is a member of Laguna Pueblo and finds comfort in making her art and connecting with family, tradition, and the inspiration her community provides
BIF-6 September 5-16, 2010
Storytellers
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Gov 2.0 innovator Ben Berkowitz co-founded advocacy website SeeClickFix.com that allows citizens to report public works issues such as potholes, graffiti, and wayward trash directly from their mobile phones, the SeeClickFix Website or...
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Jacob's social enterprise allows people to complete micro-tasks for organizations, causes or people they're passionate about, using a iPhone or web browser, in a few minutes of spare time.
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The grandson of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, Fabien is dedicated to carrying on his legacy, helping to preserve the beauty and health of our vital marine habitats
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At the forefront of the emerging narrative medicine discipline, Sayantani DasGupta is teaching students a new form of practice that connects literature with medicine in order to treat the whole person, not just the illness. She is an...
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Dale heads up Maker Media, which serves tech-savvy DIY enthusiasts. Maker Media produces Make Magazine, Maker Faire, and Make Television.
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Entrepreneur who launched Tabula Digita, a developer of educational video games that look and feel like 3-D PlayStation games and teach core K-12 subjects including math, literacy, science and history.
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Passionate advocate of simple, clear, and elegant web-based user interface design, 37signals CEO and popular blogger Jason Fried has co-authored a new book called ReWork which outlines his philosophies on how to build a business.
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John Hagel III has nearly 30 years' experience as a management consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, and has helped companies improve their performance by effectively applying information technology to reshape business...
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Directing HP Labs Central Nervous System for the Earth project, Peter Hartwell is building a planetwide sensing network using billions of tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors. Hartwell envisions sensing nodes about the...
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Former documentary filmmaker and news producer who is now innovating in the most challenging and cutting-edge areas of the digital arena and creating a new source of content creation and revenue along the way.
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With a desire to spend 10% of his time studying the structured elements of what makes all of us happy, Tony Hsieh is on a new mission to deliver happiness wherever he goes.
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Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. He also is the chair of the non-profit’s Board of Directors. Kaplan started BIF in 2005 with a mission to enable collaborative innovation. The non-...
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Since 2006, Rita has been documenting the evolution of IBM's Virtual Universe Community. Her revealing work sheds new light on the critical importance that our digital culture should not be perceived as separate from the real world.
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Josh believes digital should be fun and thinks all media experiences could be better and more productive. Through ScrollMotion Josh develops original mobile applications. The company is currently the largest publisher to Apple's App...
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A pioneer in the field of life/work designing, Richard Leider is devoted to helping individuals, leaders, and teams discover the power of purpose. As the founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm in...
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Social entrepreneur who co-created a sustainable system for converting used vegetable oil into bio-fuel to heat homes.
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World-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and now RISD president whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a...
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Carmen Medina retired this February from a 30+year career at CIA, most recently as the Director for the Center for the Study of Intelligence. During her time as a senior manager of analysts, Carmen was a key senior leader supporting the...
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A master storyteller, Jana has produced three films that have won Academy Awards and an additional eight that have received Oscar nominations.
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Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Peter and Faith will present their latest photographic collection from their new book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. Featuring portraits and stories of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day, the book...
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Exploring how batteries are re-shaping the transportation and stationary power sectors.
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Former BusinessWeek editor and now a professor of innovation and design at The New School focused on showing students how design tools, methodologies and approaches can change the world.
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Named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list of young geniuses shaking up science today, John Rinn is a "genomic origamist" turning genetic trash into treasure by proving that "junk" RNA is a potential linchpin of...
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A pioneer in surgical robotics and telemedicine, Richard Satava glimpses a not so distant future in which robotics and other advances have radically transformed medicine as we know it.
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As a new wave angel investor, Kim takes the best parts of capitalism and marries them to the best parts of philanthropy to create a "pay it forward" fund where each successful business invests in future businesses.
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Leonard A. Schlesinger became the 12th president of Babson College on July 1, 2008. He came to Babson from Limited Brands, where he served in executive positions since 1999, most recently as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer....
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A renowned visionary committed to renewable energy, Jigar Shah launched SunEdison in 2003 based upon a business plan he developed in 1999 for a university class. That plan became the basis of the SunEdison business model: Simplify solar as...
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A masterful storyteller and one of the world's leading authorities on business strategy, Don's new book is Macrowikinomics.
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Applying his luxury hospitality experience to the world of healthcare, this President and CEO of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is reinventing patient-care delivery.
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Award-winning, nationally-recognized editor, author and columnist, Webber co-founded Fast Company, the fastest growing, most successful business magazine in history and winner of two national magazine awards, one for excellence and one for...
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John Winsor is a leading strategic marketing and product innovation thinker especially known for his work in collaboration, co-creation and crowdsourcing. His latest venture, Victors and Spoils, is an innovative advertising agency based on...
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Pregnancy is a leading cause of death amongst women of childbearing age in the developing world. As founder of Maternova, Meg is fulfilling a glaring need for rapid, efficient knowledge sharing across diverse groups working on maternal...
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Melissa Withers is the Executive Director of the Business Innovation Factory. In addition to her work overseeing day-to-day operations at BIF, Melissa plays an active role in projects conducted in the BIF experience labs.
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What needs to be said? He's just Richard.
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Considered one of the most influential consultants in the world, Keith Yamashita is the man companies call when they are stuck in a rut and want to figure out to get back on track. A strategist, innovator, and writer, Keith was recently...
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