Saul Kaplan
Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory
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.
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David Macaulay
Bestselling Author and Illustrator of The Way We Work and The New Way Things Work
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Carne Ross
Author, The Leaderless Revolution, Executive Director, Independent Diplomat
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Susan Schuman
CEO and Partner, SYPartners
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Hillary Salmons
Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance
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Sherry Turkle
Professor, Author
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Simon Majumdar
Author, food writer and broadcaster
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Marc Freedman
CEO and Founder, Civic Ventures
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Valdis Krebs
Founder, Chief Scientist, orgnet.com
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Michael Harsh
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare
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Beth Coleman
Co-director of the Critical Media Lab, Professor of English Literature and Languages, University of Waterloo, Ontario
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David H. Stull
Dean of Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College and Conservatory
BIF-8 Extras
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.
