Registration & Networking

Welcome & Remarks: Ben Quintana, Chair, IdaVation

• Special Guest Welcome - Dave Bieter, Mayor, City of Boise
  
• Platinum Sponsor Remarks - Eric Bjorkman, Of Counsel, Perkins Coie

Keynote: Unleashing Creativity - How individuals and companies can foster a sustainable culture of innovation

by Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder & President, Idea Champions

The future of your business - indeed, the future of any business - is intimately tied to its ability to innovate: the relentless effort to originate and implement bold new ways of creating extraordinary results. But how does innovation really happen? What ignites it? What drives it? And more importantly, what can you do to increase the chances of it becoming a day-to-day reality on the job - no matter what your title?

Mitch Ditkoff's keynote is specifically targeted to anyone wanting to significantly increase their odds of generating, developing, and implementing the kind of ideas that lead to real innovation. His presentation is a boot camp for brilliance. Practical, hands on, and fun, it will leave a lasting impression.

Participants will learn:

• Key insights into what it takes to be a breakthrough innovator
• A clear model on what's required to establish a culture of innovation
• Useful principles and best practices to apply on the job
• Tools and techniques to think outside the box
• The origination and development of at least one, powerful new idea
• A painless way to give timely feedback to fellow innovators
• The confidence and commitment to manifest their most inspired ideas

Break/Networking

Creativity and Innovation in Isolation - How Idaho companies are leveraging place to their advantage

• Moderator: Mark Rivers, CEO, Brix & Company, 2009 Idaho Innovator of the Year
• Michael Boerner, Founder & CEO, Unity Media Group and Unity Medical, Inc.
• Bob Lokken, Founder & CEO, WhiteCloud Analytics
• John Sosoka, Co-Founder & CEO, Pulse-Robotics

Break/Networking

Keynote: A Whole New Approach: The Future of Business Takes a Whole New Mind
by Shawn Shepherd, Ph.D., Head of School, Foothills School of Arts & Sciences

Effective business leaders must stay one step ahead of the major changes in how we learn, communicate, and generate business. Futurists of all stripes are writing that the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and empathic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

In this keynote address with experiential components brought to you by Dr. Shawn Shepherd, Head of Foothills School of Arts and Sciences, and her team of "out of the box" faculty members, the audience will explore six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success in the coming world of work! Be ready to learn - and to play - in this lunchtime presentation.

Break/Networking

World-Class Research Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Innovators - Idaho-based ideas ready for commercialization

• Moderator: Mike Reynoldson, Government Affairs Manager, Micron Technology
• Mary Givens, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Boise State University
• Gene Merrell, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development & Chief Technology Transfer Officer, University of Idaho
• Jason Stolworthy, Technology Transfer & Commercialization and Licensing Manager, Idaho National Laboratory

Break/Networking

Disruptive Technologies: Risk taking and focusing on future markets

• Moderator: Jay Larsen, Founder & CEO/President, Idaho Technology Council
  
• Layne Simmons, Founder & President, Motionetics, Inc.
• Clay Young, Co-Founder & CEO, Inovus Solar
• Von Hansen, Vice President and General Manager, Value Enterprise Products & Supplies, Hewlett-Packard

Break/Networking

Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Roundtables
Facilitated roundtables where attendees can pick the minds of CEOs, entrepreneurs, innovators, and industry leaders.

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Innovation Workshop with Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder & President, Idea Champions

Title: ENTERING THE AHA STATE

Description: This 90 minute, hands on-workshop is designed to radically increase your chances of arriving at a breakthrough idea, insight, or illumination on a Wednesday afternoon. Each participant will identify their own compelling challenge or opportunity, then go through a non-kumbaya-esque process of quickening the arrival of extraordinary possibilities. While it’s true that most “ideas are a dime a dozen." there are some that are priceless and that’s what we’re aiming for with this engaging workshop. Led by Mitch Ditkoff, President of Idea Champions and facilitator of creative thinking sessions for just about every industry on planet Earth.

Reception/Networking