Last Chance to Register for BIF-5

Melissa Withers
August 31, 2009

Despite the tough economy and tight travel budgets, 250 people have already registered for the the BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit on October 7-8.  Looking at the list of attendees, we know that this year's Summit will be especially lively, with participants coming from all walks of life and from across the U.S. and Europe.

We were honored when Mashable recently named the BIF Summit one of the top seven places in the country to connect with great minds.  As we finalize the storyteller line-up we are confident that we have lived up to the honor.

Current storytellers include:

•    Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art
•    Linda Avey, founder of 23 and Me
•    Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, a 30-year technology veteran and author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
•    Sarah Endline founded Sweetriot, which strives to build tasty little morsels in a different way for a different generation
•    Jeff Jarvis, author, journalist, and blogger at Buzzmachine.com, his book, What Would Google Do? was published in January, 2009 to wide-acclaim
•    Kris Halvorsen, Chief Innovation Officer, Intuit
•    Jonah Lehrer editor-at-large for Seed magazine, Rhodes scholar and author of the bestseller How We Decide
•    John Maeda, a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, and computer scientist is now president of the Rhode Island School of Design
•    Neri Oxman, an architect and researcher at MIT. Her work is at the intersection of architecture, engineering, computation and ecology.
•    Carne Ross, Former British diplomat and now co-founder and director, Independent Diplomat
•    Leonard Schlesinger, president of Babson College and former vice chairman and COO of Limited Brands, overseeing Express, Limited Stores, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, Bath and Body Works, and Henri Bendel
•    Bob Schwartz, GM of Global Design, GE Healthcare
•    Patricia Seybold, an authority on customer experience innovation with more than three decades of experience and author of the acclaimed book Outside Innovation
•    Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight, is the author of 13 books, including Wikinomics, the best selling management book in the U.S. in 2007, and his latest book, Grown Up Digital
•    Helmut Traitler, Vice President of Innovation Partnerships, Nestlé
•    Alan Webber, author, business journalist and all-around innovation guru
•    Jocelyn Wyatt, who leads IDEO’s work building social enterprises and advising businesses in the developing world
•    Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices, an international media network that offers training in podcasting and videocasting throughout the developing world and founder of Geekcorps, a non-profit technology volunteer corps that pairs volunteers with businesses in emerging nations.

See the full line-up at http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/bif-5

There are only 30 seats left for BIF-5, so register today to save your spot!