BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - Thursday, October 8, 2009

Paola Antonelli: Revealing the Human Spirit Through Design

The MOMA senior curator gives her take on the design process and it's ability to understand the increasingly complex nuances of consumer preference.

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Bill Buxton: Always Be a Beginner

Leading designer and Microsoft principal researcher questions why the design of most technology doesn't incorporate important social, cultural and historical perspectives.

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Sarah Endline: A Sweetly Profitable Path to Social and Economic Justice

How does a kid from rural Michigan get thinking about global economics and social entrepreneurship? Meet the mastermind, chocolatier and chief rioter of sweetriot.

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Max Geiger: Getting Creative Information Out of Destruction

The host of Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior" talks about how the show determines hypothetical winners between historical warriors through simulations.

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Per-Kristian (Kris) Halvorsen: Moving Fast, Thinking Forward

Intuit's chief innovation officer sits down with BIF-5 co-host Bruce Nussbaum to talk about what it takes to drive innovation capability across a company.

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Natalie Jeremijenko: No One Trusts an Artist

Blending biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, the artist shares some creative experiments from her environmental health clinic.

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Saul Kaplan: Ideas Worth Scaling

Inspiring opening remarks from the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory.

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Jonah Lehrer: Human Folly and the Fickle Brain

Wired contributing editor and author of "How We Decide" and "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" shares his intriguing research about the human brain and how/why we decide the things we do.

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John Maeda: Art for Innovators 101

In this onstage interview with co-host Bruce Nussbaum, the RISD president digs into his viewpoint that innovation has lost its appreciation of "thinking for thinking’s sake."

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Roger Martin: What Would the NFL Do?

The dean of the Rotman School talks about how today's MBA programs create nothing but "jargon spewing economic vandals" and the imperative for change.

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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