BIF Summits

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Watch videos from BIF's annual Summits.

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Interviews and features with the BIF community.

Innovators

Explore the live videos, interviews, and short narratives that comprise BIF's Innovation Story Studio though the voices of our diverse community of innovators.

  • Angela Blanchard

    President & CEO, Neighborhood Centers, Inc.

    Angela Blanchard's pioneering work in asset-based community development  focuses on the human, social and cultural strengths of vulnerable populations. As the president and CEO of Houston-based Neighborhood Centers Inc., one of the top 1% of U.S.-based charitable groups that serves 250,000 clients annually through 60 facilities in the Houston and Gulf Coast regions, she has developed a powerful transformational model for community redevelopment with important implications for other efforts throughout the nation.

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Introducing Best of the BIF Summit Series

Since the first BIF Summit in 2005, the Business Innovation Factory has been sharing stories of more than 200 innovators across the globe. From the therapy of dance to the dark corners of nano-science to the fringes of entrepreneurship and boardrooms of corporate America, these innovators hail from every imaginable sector and discipline. We're pleased to present the Best of the BIF Summit Series collection highlighting their work and impact on our community and the world.

  • Education Troublemakers

    Education Troublemakers

    Meet Ten Innovators Deconstructing Education Brick by Brick

    What needs to change to develop the talents of all our nation's students? Meet 10 education troublemakers who are shaking things up in big bold ways. Some are empowering passionate and creative teaching methods; others are creating entirely new school models and a couple are still students themselves. Watch these troublemakers share their story and we think you'll agree - while there's much to do, an education revolution is underway.

About the Innovation Story Studio

The BIF Innovation Story Studio isn’t just an archive of cool videos, interviews, audio and narrative pieces. It is BIF’s platform for helping our innovation community learn from each other, share their wisdom, and revel in the outcomes of our experiments, whether they succeed or fail.