BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit

Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - Thursday, October 5, 2006

BIF-2 took place on October 4-5, 2006 at Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I. and was moderated by Richard Saul Wurman and WSJ technology columnist Walt Mossberg. The summit welcomed 32 storytellers and some 300 participants to Providence for a two-day conversation about creating innovation and driving change.

Randy Antik: Applying Strategic Business Skills to the Public Sector

What do you do when you’re told your child will never graduate from high school?  Randy Antik talks about finding the one doctor who could help and helping that doctor scale his approach to reach millions of kids a year.

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Robert Ballard: Collaboration - The DNA of Discovery

As a child Bob Ballard was spellbound by “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”.  Fiber optics and telepresence helped the oceanographer discover the Titanic and reach his dream of walking on the bottom of the ocean.

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Alph Bingham: Finding Novel Solutions Through Diversity of Exposure

"Crowdsourcing" pioneer Alph Bingham talks about designing a research business to produce quick solutions to problems.  As a co-founder of Innocentive they took challenges from Fortune 500 companies and posted them as contests for the world to solve.

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Rick Borovoy: Breaking Down Social Barriers to Create Ideal Interactions

"Your choices make choices." Rick Borovoy, co-founder and CTO of nTag Interactive explains that technology needs a singular idea and solid core to support the needs of the greater community.

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Curt Columbus: Innovative Theater Baby

Cars, televisons, ipods and other modern technology have put our society into social isolation. Curt Columbus believes in putting the audience back into the center of theatre in a "democratic space".

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Diane Hessan: Getting Into the Hearts and Minds of Customers

Diane Hessan truly understands the customer. As president and CEO of Communispace she is facilitating conversations between companies and customers through private online communities.

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John Donoghue: Innovation in Neuroscience - Turning Thoughts Into Action

How do you turn thoughts into action? Neuroscientist John Donoghue's pioneering work has decoded brain waves and is helping people restore lost functions.

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Peter Durand: Complexity Made Clear Through the Power of Visualization

Graphic Facilitator Peter Durand aptly manages to listen, draw and capture the essence of stories.  Although it was the frustration of presenting his work that drove him to create "The Missing Link" a software package and web archive of conference visualizations.

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Peter Gloor: Reaping the Rewards of Collaborative Innovation

"Don't be a star, be a galaxy." Peter Gloor talks about his work mapping social networks by creating visualizations of the seemingly intangible relationships between people, ideas and organizations.

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Mark Hellendrung: Innovation is in the Brew

What do you do when you're looking for a new business venture, you're nostalgic, and you love baseball and good old fashioned beer? The answer was simple for Hellendrung: re-launch Narragansett Beer.

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Exclusive Post-Summit Workshop

Following the BIF-8 Summit, get your hands dirty with Saul Kaplan and Alex Osterwalder, in an exclusive Workshop digging into the challenges and opportunities of business model innovation. Only 100 tickets are available for this exclusive event. Register by April 30, 2012 and save $150 off the regular ticket price .

BIF-8 Storytellers

This year will bring us another amazing group of storytellers. Check back often for the latest. Here are our early additions.

Check out all of our past storytellers