
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.

Paola Antonelli at BIF-5
The MOMA senior curator gives her take on the design process and it's ability to understand the increasingly complex nuances of consumer preference.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alice Wilder at BIF-5
Educational psychologist and Blue's Clues creator discusses her creative approach to getting kids excited about learning. (Hint: Ask a lot of questions.)

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.

Bill Shannon at BIF-5
DaVita Chief Wisdom Officer delivers captivating story that gives new meaning to the famed Three Muskateers motto 'all for one and one for all.'

Steven Trachtenberg at BIF-5
The always humorous former president of George Washington University shares a handful of lessons related to challenging assumptions and finding new opportunities.

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."

Jocelyn Wyatt at BIF-5
Within the context of her own personal journey, IDEO social innovation lead shares her process for building social enterprises in the developing world.

Saul Kaplan at BIF-5
Inspiring opening remarks from the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory.

Roger Martin at BIF-5
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.

Practically Radical: Peter Snyder at BIF-5
There's an exciting paradigm shift taking place in science today that moves the notion of 'doing' to 'knowing' explains the Lifespan VP of research.
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Student Experience Lab
BIF recently launched a new laboratory to enable innovation in higher education. The lab will support the design of solutions that increase college attainment levels, enhance the college student experience and improve the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. higher education system.