Business Innovation Factory (BIF-4) – Day One

Day One at Business Innovation Factory (BIF-4) was quite interesting. The storytelling format was interesting and a bit of a departure from the canned Microsoft PowerPoint routine.

I will have to post my detailed thoughts tomorrow as I had to do a bit of work for my large software company and marketing agency clients before I could start blogging tonight. So in the meantime, here is a run-down of the Day One speaker line-up and what they spoke about:

1. Saul Kaplan (Chief Catalyst – Business Innovation Factory)
   – Welcome
2. John Abele(Co-Founder – Boston Scientific)
   – Finding the USS Grunion
3. Mark Ecko (Founder – Ecko Enterprises)
   – How Ecko and its logo came to be
4. Curt Columbus (Trinity Repertory Company)
   – The need for random interaction
5. Alexander Tsiaras (Founder – thevisualmd.com)
   – Visual anatomy
6. Jacqueline Novogratz (Founder – Acumen Fund)
   – Social capitalism
7. Jason Fried (Co-Founder – 37Signals)
   – Building an audience
8. Matt Cottam (Business Innovation Factory)
   – Nursing Home of the Future project
9. James Ludwig (Steelcase)
   – Generation Y
10. Richard Satava (Surgeon – University of Washington)
    – The importance of failure
11. Dave Kusek (Berklee Music)
    – The impact of technology on music
12. Gary Koelling/Steve Bendt (Best Buy)
    – Innovation by accident
13. Richard Saul Wurman (Author, Founder of TED Conference)
    – The dearth of comparable city information
14. Joseph Coughlin (MIT)
    – Meeting the demands of an aging population
15. Lewis Gordon Pugh (Swimmer/Adventurer)
    – Saving the Arctic (1st distance swim at the north pole)

What will tomorrow hold?