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Watch Now: BIF-5 Videos Available in the Innovation Story Studio

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  Bob Schwartz at BIF-5

  GE Healthcare's GM of Global Design asks himself 'why does it have to be this way?' and shares inspiring examples of meaning making in the company's work.

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  Alan Webber at BIF-5

  What do you do? Author and co-founder of Fast Company magazine reflects on his career, what's next and the importance of doing meaningful work.

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  Saul Kaplan at BIF-5

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

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  Ethan Zuckerman at BIF-5

  The activist, academic and co-founder of Global Voices shares a story about building cultural bridges, xenophilia and a little video game called War of Warcraft.

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  Michael Samuelson at BIF-5

  Returning storyteller and Health and Wellness Institute president shares an intensely personal story about breast cancer and the need to be your own advocate.

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  Practically Radical: Richard Antcliff at BIF-5

  NASA Langley's Chief Technologist talks about how a 92-year old organization like NASA can reinvent itself to do more with less and still be innovative.

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  Carne Ross at BIF-5

  Hear the incredible story of how and why this former British senior diplomat and founder of the Independent Diplomat is reinventing diplomacy for the 21st century.

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  Neri Oxman at BIF-5

  By letting materials tell their own stories, the form-finding (not form-making) artist, architect and material ecologist shares a few brilliant examples of her work. 

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  Nell Merlino at BIF-5

  The women's rights activist and pioneer shares a moving story about helping women break through the economic barriers that keep them from earning more.

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  John B. Rogers at BIF-5

  Can you crowdsource the design of a car? Locol Motors CEO shares his unique collaboration between small-volume manufacturing and car-loving communities.

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  Natalie Jeremijenko at BIF-5

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

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  Sarah Endline at BIF-5

  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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  John Maeda at BIF-5

  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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  Leonard Schlesinger at BIF-5

  What if we were all entrepreneurs? The Babson College president tackles the question, gets personal and takes on the challenge of re-organizing our institutions.

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  Bill Taylor, Alan Webber and Saul Kaplan at BIF-5

  Fast Company co-founders take the stage to talk about the early days of publishing and the astounding changes that have taken place since they sold the magazine.

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  Richard Saul Wurman at BIF-5

  The legendary information architect offers a handful of delightfully disconnected personal stories about weight-loss, dressing in white and his latest book 33.