Brandon Barnett
Director of Business Innovation, Intel Corporation
Inspired Conversation
Two days. Thirty storytellers. Over 400 innovators, troublemakers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and transformation artists.
BIF-8 is a national gathering of amazing people who are driven by their passion, creativity, and smarts to create value in entirely new ways. Believing in the power of stories to change the world, the BIF Summit is a storytelling jam, peppered with tales of personal discovery, innovation, and transformation.
Now in its eighth year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as "one of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action" (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators.
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BIF-8 Storytellers
This year will bring us another amazing group of storytellers. Check back often for the latest. Here are our early additions.
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Robin Chase
Founder, Buzzcar and Zipcar
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Carol Coletta
President, ArtPlace
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Felice Frankel
Research Scientist, The Center for Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
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Marc Freedman
CEO and Founder, Civic Ventures
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James Gardner
Chief Strategy Officer, Spigit
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Teny Gross
Executive Director, Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
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Darell Hammond
CEO and Founder, KaBOOM!
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Jeremy Heimans
Co-Founder & CEO, Purpose
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Valdis Krebs
Founder, Chief Scientist, orgnet.com
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David Macaulay
Bestselling Author and Illustrator of The Way We Work and The New Way Things Work
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Hillary Salmons
Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance
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Jeffrey M. Sparr
Founder, PeaceLove
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David H. Stull
Dean of Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College and Conservatory
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Bill Taylor
Founding Editor, Fast Company, Coauthor, Mavericks at Work, New book, Practically Radical
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Sherry Turkle
Professor, Author
Who Attends?
Since the first BIF Summit, we've heard stories from more than 200 innovators from across every sector and discipline. Even more amazing is that 2,000 people from around world have participated in a BIF Summit. Here are some of the companies that have been represented.
Exclusive Post-Summit Workshop
Following the BIF-8 Summit, get your hands dirty with Saul Kaplan and Alex Osterwalder, in an exclusive Workshop digging into the challenges and opportunities of business model innovation. Only 100 tickets are available for this exclusive event. Register by April 30, 2012 and save $150 off the regular ticket price .
BIF-7 Videos
Videos recorded live at the 2011 BIF-7 Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, RI are now online! Here's a small sample from this inspiring collection.
