BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - Thursday, October 11, 2007

BIF-3 took place on October 10-11, 2007 at Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I. and was co-hosted by Walt Mossberg and Bill Taylor. The slate of storytellers included Mark Cuban owner Dallas Mavericks, Ghost Map author and co-creator of outside.in Steven Johnson, founder of Zipcar and GoLoco Robin Chase, author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, 37signals founder and CEO Jason Fried, IBM vice president of Technology Strategy and Innovation Irving Wladawsky-Berger, MIT AgeLab director Joseph F. Coughlin, and Icosystem CEO and chief scientific officer Eric Bonabeau.

Dave Balter: Building Brands One Conversation at a Time

Balter is the founder and CEO of BzzAgent, Inc., one of the advertising industry's most recognized word-of-mouth marketing and media firms. Balter currently serves as Chair of the The Word of Mouth Marketing Association International Committee.

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Chris Benedict: The Pistachio Builder

Benedict doesn't just do "green" architecture. She recently completed a 38-unit new construction project that uses 85% less energy than standard designs...and she did it without subsidy or special grants.

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Eric Bonabeau: Exploring Nature's Patterns for Breakthrough Technology

The founder and Chairman of Icosystem Corporation, Bonabeau is one of the world's leading experts in complexity. His book Swarm Intelligence has been a scientific bestseller for eight years and provided the inspiration for Michael Chrichton's Prey.

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Robin Chase: Configuring Transportation 2.0

Chase is the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a service that helps people quickly arrange to share rides between friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Prior to GoLoco, Chase co-founded and was CEO of Zipcar, the world's largest car-sharing company.

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Clay Christensen: The Innovation Trainer

Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and creating new growth markets.

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Jay M. Cohen: The Ultimate Risk Management Innovator

Under Secretary Jay Cohen, vice Rear Admiral, USN Retired, serves as the Under Secretary, Science & Technology Directorate with the Department of Homeland Security.

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Matt Cottam: Marlon Brando, Robert Deniro, Matt Cottam?

Cottam is a co-founder of Tellart and serves as the company's CEO and creative director as well as being a part-time faculty at RISD. Cottam's current research and course topics at RISD involve design for Search and Rescue and Disaster Medicine.

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Joseph Coughlin: Meeting the Demands of an Aging Population

Coughlin is founder and Director of MIT's AgeLab - the first multi-disciplinary research program sponsored by government and business to understand the behavior of the 45+ population as decision-makers, consumers, patients, caregivers, advisers and technology users.

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Mark Cuban: The Entrepreneurial Sprinter (With Maverick Spirit)

Cuban is an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Prior to his purchase of the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet.

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Paul English: The Small Business Creator

Paul English is the co-founder & CTO of Kayak.com a travel search engine. Recently, English has gained recognition as the founder of gethuman, a consumer movement, with the goal to change the face of customer support in the United States.

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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.

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