masters of ceremonies
doug stevenson & andrea montuschi
keynote presenters
monday night
jeremy gutsche
Unlocking Cool
One of the world's 'most favorited' presentations at SlideShare.net, Unlocking Cool is a beginning-to-end exploration of the innovation process, reinvented. Using multimedia and visually engaging examples, Gutsche provides his audience with a cutting-edge toolkit for leveraging viral trends and methodical innovation frameworks to generate breakthrough ideas. Unlocking Cool includes Gutsche’s best examples about Creating a Culture of Innovation, Power Innovation, Infectious Communication and the Trend Report. Tech Point called the presentation, "The Perfect Kick-Off," Canada eConnect noted, "Jeremy was the highest rated speaker," while the Editor-in-chief of Hospitality Design noted, “Very well received for his humour, acuity and awareness. Spot on. Highly recommended.”
thursday night
andy stefanovich
Bringing inspiration and creativity to your business.
As one of the most disruptive advisors in business, Play's founder Andy Stefanovich brings creativity and innovation to the world's top companies. After 17 years of changing business, Andy has realized that creative processes and innovation outputs are only as good as the inspiration that fuels them. How do you seek new inspiration to spur creativity and innovation? How do you stay inspired and engaged in your daily life and work? Andy shares inspiring best practice stories and critical problem solving methods to empower to people, and thereby enhance their ability to develop and share new ideas. Andy proves that it's not only necessary to encourage creativity and innovation in today's marketplace; it's dangerous to ignore them.
- Creativity and innovation in business.
- Practical skills, leadership behaviors, and methods for developing and implementing ideas at work.
- Making business a lot more creative and its people continually inpired.
Andy Stefanovich, In charge of what's next, Play.
keynote experience
wednesday night
michael jones
[ Read biography ]
Moments of Illumination: An Evening of Music, Story and Reflection
...I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in dischord
Because death’s note want to climb over
But in the dark interval reconciled they stay their trembling
And the song goes on.
Beautiful
Rilke
The rest between two notes is like cracks in the surface revealing the fragility and the deeper story in our lives. While we are connected to community job and career we belong most to a story. Too often we lose the thread of this story, in the busyness and hurrying of our lives, until we have a glimpse into this void - a moment of illumination - when something cuts through our busyness in a miraculous way and we experience a moment of clarity, harmony and see clearly the deep patterning of our lives. It is then we hear the deep song and feel the unfolding order of the universe beneath the daily chaos.... These are the gifts of happiness when we discover what is most pleasing and natural to who we truly are - and it often comes unexpectedly. In this session I will share my own moments and invite others to do the same.
spotlight presenters
monday afternoon
frank prince
[ Read biography ]
Be Creative 24/7! 11 Key Strategies to Boost Your Creativity
Today’s high-tech, caffeinated, “Blackberry-ed”, cell-phoned world we live in has many people saying “I don’t have time to think, much less time to spend being creative.” This session will explore tools for you to integrate creativity into your life at all times without making it “one more thing to do”. We will take an applied approach and do skill building in key creativity boosting strategies. Come and learn simple methods for use in areas of your life that are missing creativity. Learn how to move creativity to an unconscious competence. BE CREATIVE – any time anywhere!
- Applied creativity at an individual level
- Simple tools for integrating creativity
- Processes for stimulating the creative subconscious
- Brain activation techniques for enhanced creativity and cognition
susan davis & denise knight
[ Read biography ] [ Read biography ]
coke®/care
"…Our business can only be as healthy as the local communities where we operate." - E. Neville Isdell, Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Coca-Cola Company
CARE, like Coca-Cola also maintains a deep and powerful passion for creating a world of dignity and well-being. CARE and The Coca-Cola Company have been partners for decades as investors in a better world. Denise Knight of The Coca-Cola Company and Susan Davis of CARE talk about how both organizations have evolved and are working together to go beyond typical philanthropy to establish and support sustainable communities.
The Coca-Cola Company and CARE are working hand-in-hand to create significant, effective and sustainable solutions to address global challenges, such as water and sanitation concerns. Through case studies and real-world examples, this presentation will address both the successes and challenges of this ambitious undertaking, including aspects of the partnership that could be relevant to other organizations committed to finding creative solutions to ongoing global issues.
tuesday night
dimis michaelides
[ Read biography ]
The Art of Innovation: How to Integrate Creativity in Organizations
Companies today have no choice but to innovate or die. Fortunately it is possible for uncreative organizations to become creative and creative ones to become more so.
In this entertaining presentation, Dimis Michaelides, business speaker, author and magician, will argue that the innovative organization is an intelligent synthesis of the Sources of efficient creativity and the appropriate organizational Structure and Culture.
With a touch of amazing professional magic and using analogies from ancient Egypt, Aristophanes, contemporary art and corporate references from Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Ferrari, IBM and Apple, Dimis will present the twelve elements required to make innovation thrive in any organization: Talent, Energy, Method, Individual, Team, Target, System, Ideas, Engagement, Freedom, Humor, Risk.
The presentation is themed around The Art of Innovation - Integrating Creativity in Organizations, a most unusual business book written by Dimis Michaelides.
barry johnson
[ Read biography ]
Tapping Our Gift of Polarities: For Families, Organizations, Nations and Planet
Both ancient wisdom and current research affirm the power of interdependent pairs in our lives. They are called Polarities, Paradoxes, Dilemmas and Tensions. By tapping the power and inherent tension of opposing ideas, opposites are converted into a creative synergy, reinforcing each other in a positive way. Understanding how polarities work and how to implement them within our sphere of influence – social or professional – can enhance our quality of life at all levels.
The goal of Polarity Management™ is not to solve or remove problems. Rather it is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides that exist within the dilemma. This session is about helping individuals, families, organizations, and nations identify and manage perceived unsolvable problems by viewing them through the lens of Polarity Management™.