BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit

Dave Balter at BIF-3

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 at BIF-3

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 at BIF-3

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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Clay Christensen at BIF-3

BIF research advisor 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. His latest book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change The Way The World Learns has been named one of the "10 Best Innovation and Design Books in 2008" by BusinessWeek, and the best Human Capital book of the year in the Strategy + Business Best Books of 2008.

In this interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, Clay talks about how to apply his disruptive innovation theories to critical areas in need such as healthcare and education.

A BIF community fan favorite, this is a must-watch video recorded at the BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit.

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Robin Chase at BIF-3

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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Jay M. Cohen at BIF-3

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 at BIF-3

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 at BIF-3

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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Paul English at BIF-3

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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Dean Esserman at BIF-3

Nationally recognized as a leader in public safety innovation, Providence's Chief of Police has revamped the city's crimefighting force and sucessfully replaced the department's traditional methods with a new community policing concept.

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