Event Overview: Chris Volk, President, Kickstand & Melanie Rubocki, Perkins Coie, IdaVation Presenting Sponsor

Morning Welcome: U.S. Congressman and Idaho Businessman Walt Minnick
Title: "Why America Needs More Idaho Innovation"

Morning Speaker: Bill Wilmot, Ph.D., Author of Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
Title: "From Farnsworth to the Future: Tips for converting Idaho's ideas into innovations."

Idaho has a deep history of entrepreneurship stretching from early trappers and pioneers through 20th century heroes like Filo Farnsworth, Joe Albertson, and the many leaders inside Micron, Hewlett Packard, INL, and others. With so many great ideas and patents on file, the critical challenge today is learning how to grow great companies from the ideas that are our "seeds of innovation." Bill Wilmot and The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) have studied the conversion from ideas to innovations and discovered a logical and repeatable path to success. Bill will offer insights from his book, Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, heralded as a Top Ten Business Book by BusinessWeek in 2006. SRI is renowned for its role in commercializing the television, Internet, computer mouse, breakthrough robotics, cancer drugs, and more.

Break

Entrepreneur Panel: Market Disruptors

Panel of Idaho innovators who are disrupting or changing existing markets with new products or technologies.

• Pete Gombert - CEO, Balihoo
• Dr. Donna Hutchinson - CEO, Idaho Digital Learning Academy
• Kristi Saucerman - Auction Frogs

*Moderator: Mark Solon, Managing Partner, Highway 12 Ventures

Break

Lunch

Welcome/Announcements: Ben Quintana, chair, IdaVation

Keynote: Brad Feld, Early-Stage Investor and Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Foundry Group

Title: "Get Out There and Innovate!"

Break

Innovation Panel: Top Geeks

Idaho’s most inventive thinkers discuss how cutting-edge innovations are transforming our daily lives. Listen as the people behind the technology discuss the newest tools that are redefining the way we communicate and solve problems.

• Terry Gilton - psiFlow
• Bob Lokken - CEO, WhiteCloud Analytics
• Pat Sewall - Cradlepoint Technology
• Ryan Woodings - MetaGeek

*Moderator: Brad Feld, Early-Stage Investor and Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Foundry Group

Break

Roundtables

Facilitated roundtables where attendees can pick the minds of CEOs, entrepreneurs, innovators, VCs, Angels, and business consultants.

Breakout Session with Bill Wilmot

Morning speaker Bill Wilmot will lead a very interactive discussion on the NABC’s of developing your Value Proposition, the cornerstone discipline for Creating What Customers Want. Participants will become quickly engaged in making and reviewing elevator pitches and learning the importance of assessing customer Needs, developing unique Approaches to your market, formulating quantitative Benefits, and vanquishing Competitors. You will also learn why Watering Holes are not just for Water Buffaloes. And you will find out the real story behind the origin of HDTV. This program has been a crowd pleaser around the world. Don’t miss out on a chance to some of the same training at a fraction of cost here in Idaho.

Closing Remarks

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