
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.

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.

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.

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.

Natalie Jeremijenko at BIF-5
Blending biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, the artist shares some creative experiments from her environmental health clinic.

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.

Don Tapscott at BIF-5
The leading business strategy authority brings fresh focus to Gen-Y through the story of one over-achieving millenial who doesn't read books (and it's ok).

Greg Matthews at BIF-5
With cool project work to back him up, Humana's Director of Innovation demonstrates the power of social media as a tool for innovation.

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.

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.

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

Len 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: 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.

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."

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.

Helen Walters at BIF-5
BusinessWeek's editor of innovation and design sits down with Saul Kaplan to talk about the proliferation of social media and what it means for publishing.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - Thursday, September 16, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
March 9th 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010
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Student Experience Lab: Phase 1 Overview
While every student experience is in many ways unique, the first phase of the BIF Student Experience Lab identified nine experiential themes that span demographics, geography and school and student-type.