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Inspired Conversation

Two days. Thirty storytellers. Over 400 innovators, troublemakers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and transformation artists.

BIF-8 is a national gathering of amazing people who are driven by their passion, creativity, and smarts to create value in entirely new ways. Believing in the power of stories to change the world, the BIF Summit is a storytelling jam, peppered with tales of personal discovery, innovation, and transformation.

Now in its eighth year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as "one of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action" (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators.


BIF-8 Storytellers

Here are a few of this year's incredible storytellers.

  • Saul Kaplan

    Saul Kaplan

    Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory

  • David Macaulay

    David Macaulay

    Bestselling Author and Illustrator of The Way We Work and The New Way Things Work

  • Carne Ross

    Carne Ross

    Author, The Leaderless Revolution, Executive Director, Independent Diplomat

  • Susan Schuman

    Susan Schuman

    CEO and Partner, SYPartners

  • Hillary Salmons

    Hillary Salmons

    Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance

  • Sherry Turkle

    Sherry Turkle

    Professor, Author

  • Simon Majumdar

    Simon Majumdar

    Author, food writer and broadcaster

  • Marc Freedman

    Marc Freedman

    CEO and Founder, Civic Ventures

  • Valdis Krebs

    Valdis Krebs

    Founder, Chief Scientist, orgnet.com

  • Michael Harsh

    Michael Harsh

    Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare

  • Beth Coleman

    Beth Coleman

    Co-director of the Critical Media Lab, Professor of English Literature and Languages, University of Waterloo, Ontario

  • David H. Stull

    David H. Stull

    Dean of Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College and Conservatory

Check out all of the BIF-8 storytellers

BIF-8 Videos

Videos recorded live at this year's BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit are now available online! Here's a small sample from this inspiring collection.

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BIF-8 Collaborators

BIF-8 Collaborators