2006 Event Announcements
3rd Congreso Internacional de Creatividad
La Asociación para la Creatividad y EOI-Escuela de Negocios han acordado organizar el III Congreso Internacional de Creatividad bajo el lema de "Innovación en la Sociedad y en la Empresa". Los objetivos de esta conferencia son:
* Conocer y compartir los trabajos de investigación que actualmente se están llevando a cabo en diferentes campos de estudio de la Creatividad y la Innovación.
* Reelaborar conceptualmente el proceso de construcción del conocimiento desde la aportación de los nuevos modelos creativos.
* Establecer vínculos innovadores entre los pensadores de la creatividad, los agentes y las organizaciones sociales y el mundo empresarial.
* Alcanzar, en la aplicación de la creatividad, una solución innovadora que, en forma de herramienta, permita afrontar con eficacia los nuevos retos que se le presentan a la gestión empresarial.
* Recrear desde una perspectiva social, nuevos valores creativos para el cambio social, la calidad de vida y el desarrollo humano.
Florida Creativity Weekend III
Florida Creativity Weekend III: Opening Doors through Creativity will be held February 24-26, 2006 in Sarasota, Florida (USA). The event is a weekend of interactive learning experiences focusing on creativity, creative problem solving, team building and professional and personal development. Together we will be "Opening Doors through Creativity" -- Doors to Learning, Doors to Innovation, Doors to Understanding, Doors to Connections. During the event, attendees choose from a variety of offerings in five concurrent sessions. As an alternative for the Saturday sessions, participants may register for a one-day workshop - an Overview of Creative Problem Solving (CPS). Also, we a delighted to offer a Pre-Weekend workshop opportunity on Friday (2/24, 9am-4:30pm). -- "Creating a Labyrinth." In this workshop, participants will do just that as well as learn about its potential and applications.
Participants and leaders of this event come from many arenas: educators, not-for-profit leaders, business people, retired community members, health care professionals -- all sharing a common interest of learning more about creativity and its many applications. They come to explore personal, professional and organizational creativity and the ways creative energy, thinking and process can be applied to improve many areas including: learning, team building, planning, business development, communication, understanding self and others, healthy aging, and our communities. The weekend will be one of learning together in experiential ways and of sharing connections with fellow participants. For more information, contact event organizers at FLCreativity3@aol.com.
17th Annual American Creativity Association Conference
The 2006 International Conference of the American Creativity Association will take place March 22-25, 2006 (with pre-conference institutes March 20-21). This event will bring together a diverse array of thought leaders and practitioners in the field of creativity for more than 3 days of inter-change and learning. Its theme of Creativity@Work encapsulates the conference's focus on applied creativity. Its participants are coming from throughout the United States and throughout the world, including Iran, Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Chile, and elsewhere. For more information on the presentations, presenters, and overall conference program, e-mail Barry Silverberg at barry@amcreativityassoc.org or visit the conference's website at www.amcreativityassoc.org/2006Conf.htm.
Brisbane Ideas Festival 2006
Ideas (March 29- June 2) unearths ideas-people from across the country and across the world to present an accessible program to challenge and inspire the broadest audiences. The challenge for the Ideas Festival is to create not a comfort zone but a safe discomfort zone, to release the development and debate of ideas from enclaves and to add a new ingredient – a new audience, new input and new questions – to create friction, discomfort, energy, to progress ideas and celebrate innovation.
Everyone has ideas. It is one of the great joys of the Festival to find ideas-people hidden away and to encourage them to take the risk, put their ideas forward in front of a big, questioning, curious audience, and to see that audience interact and exchange ideas, argue, think and laugh. For more information, see www.ideasfestival.com.au.
Project Renaissance Special Event: Invention-On-Demand
Project Renaissance is a non-profit educational and research organization dedicated to developing systems of accelerated learning and intelligence enhancement. The core mission of Project Renaissance is to help people become more than a match for the situations, opportunities, and problems that they find around them and to enjoy a richer quality of life and experience. To this end, Project Renaissance has developed a special event to share techniques developed for fluent technical inventing and the making of original discoveries. This Invention-On-Demand training will be held March 31-April 2 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
How practical can this Invention-On-Demand training be? As you know, few independent inventors any longer see their brainchildren make it through to development and remuneration. The only parts of the world that beat a path to your door for that better mousetrap are development firms, which make their money not from development but from sale of their services to struggling inventors. However, a few positive exceptions have emerged, and also some options which most inventors haven't thought of. So if you are acting as an individual, don't expect automatic easy riches--but don't rule them out, either. For you, this weekend will be as practical as you can make it--more so while you have a workshop-full of problem-solving partners to help you make it so. For more information, visit www.winwenger.com/iodtrain.htm.
CREA Conference in Italy
Come and join 300 creativity lovers from across the globe to revel in a top-notch program, great conviviality, multicultural joy, beautiful surroundings and delicious food and wine. If you can, plan to stay longer to visit the area -- it is breathtaking! The conference will be held in Sestri Levante, Italy (south of Genova) from April 5th-9th, 2006. To find out all about it, go to www.creaconference.com. If you have questions, contact CREA at info@creaconference.com.
Enzi Inventor Conference
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is inviting all Wyoming residents to attend his annual inventor conference where they will have the opportunity to learn how to turn their entrepreneurial dreams into a reality and pursue an actual business venture. The conference, “From Your Garage to the Assembly Line,” is scheduled for April 20 and 21 at the Cheyenne Holiday Inn. It is open to the public and admission is free.
“This event is becoming a powerful tradition across the state and is enabling Wyoming citizens to take their innovative ideas to the next level,” Enzi said. “The creativity and imagination is already there, but people need an avenue they can use to expand upon their ideas. This inventors conference will do exactly that. We are equipping the people with the tools they need to put their ideas into action, create new products, and create new jobs in Wyoming.” For more information, see www.senate.gov/~enzi/inventconf061.htm.
Creativity and Innovation Day
Creativity and Innovation Day * April 21
Journee de la Creativite et de Innovation *21 Avril
Dia de la Innovación y Creatividad * 21 de Abril
Admit it you are Creative. Creativity and Innovation Day is a global celebration of our ability to generate new ideas, use imagination and make new decisions in every sphere of life. Each year on April 21st we remind ourselves and encourage others to solve new challenges in rewarding ways by holding Creativity and Innovation Day events and activities in over 50 countries. Join in!
The first Creativity and Innovation Day celebration occurred in 2002 with 1,000 people participating. More than 5,000 people were in involved in 2004 including schools, universities, businesses, communities, and individual families. More and more people are finding ways to honour their restlessness for improvements in positive ways and choosing to announce this with pride and celebrate creative and innovative energies annually. The idea sprang from a group of people in Canada and is peacefully spanning the globe. For more information, visit www.creativityday.org/index.htm.
8th Annual Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies International Conference
TRIZCON2006 will be the largest international TRIZ conference in the world. It will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 30-May 2, 2006. This annual event brings together the largest international group of TRIZ experts with end-users. This event is an opportunity for new/experienced people to get an in depth introduction to TRIZ and to meet with an international group of trainers and end-users. Even though the agenda is packed with training opportunities, there is ample time for one on one discussion between attendees. On Sunday, there will be a two-track tutorial that will meet the needs of newcomers and an advanced track for experienced users. On Monday and Tuesday, there will be over 20 presentations on a wide variety of case studies, new developments/ applications and implementation strategies.
Attendees for TRIZCON2006 will come from all corners of the world. Innovation and creativity are at the heart of commerce and progress. Every country in the world has an interest in developing new products and technology. As a consequence, there is a tremendous amount of interest in looking at and evaluating tools and methodologies that will facilitate and expedite progress. Attendees include students, managers, engineers, R&D, teachers from high school & college professors, inventors, TRIZ trainers and a host of other people who are interested in learning how to solve all types of problems quickly and effectively. For more info, visit www.aitriz.org/ai/index.php?page=2006/trizcon2006&article=information.
European Society of Market Research Conference on Innovation
The European Society of Market Research (ESOMAR) conference on Innovation will be held May 10-12 in Miami, Florida. Innovation is not only the latest technological advancement, but any best use of resources: a new strategy, expansion or down sizing, new pricing structure, new management system. Innovate 2006 is the hub for progressive thinking and advanced applications of research to business. Explore innovation as a mind set in a global cultural context, in business to business and in new product development. Learn about what is new in research techniques, methods and communications and what is hot in technology. For more information, see www.esomar.org/web/show/id=53603.
European Organisation for Quality, 50th Anniversary
Exploring New Roads to Transformation
The European Organisation for Quality is celebrating its 50th anniversary exploring the concept of transformation. This year, the EOQ brings the worlds of innovation into those of quality and creates a spectacular and visionary event with world-class speakers (Peter Senge, Mark Raison, Pek Van Andel, Jan Bardi, George Parker and more) and two-day expeditions in learning groups of 50 on themes selected for their inspirational value. The event will be held in Antwerp, Belgium.on May 28-31.
Why attend? In this complex and competitive world, the old formulas and techniques may no longer be truly effective. If we do not look for new answers we are doomed to be overtaken by more dynamic modern economies. Participants of this event will be quality experts along with top management, production, engineers, R & D, finances, training, marketing, etc. -- 250 people from 20 countries (all continents). Visit www.eoq50years.org for more info on the program.
13th International Product Development Management Conference
Product innovation is increasingly considered to be a central source for competitive advantage and a crucial driver for economic growth. Corporations are trying to face the challenges of global competition by launching new products that better satisfy explicit and latent user needs and desires, and that have improved performance, superior functionality, lower cost, higher symbolic and emotional value, and sustainable impact on the environment
Managing product development is a major challenge because of its inherent uncertain, complex and multidisciplinary nature. Product development requires the management of creative resources and experimental processes with uncertain outputs. Also, it requires the management of many different types of interfaces: both interactions between different units within a firm (marketing, research, manufacturing, etc.) and interactions with external actors, being them users, suppliers, partners, designers, or universities. The interfaces today cross the borders countries and continents. Different types of knowledge, competencies, attitudes and values have to work together.
The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management will hold
ISPIM 2006 Conference: Networks for Innovation
The upcoming annual ISPIM conference will take place in Athens, Greece, on 11-14 June 2006. Organised by TEI Athens, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference will include dedicated academic and practitioner tracks as well as case studies and short paper presentations. Sub-themes will include Academic-industry networks for innovation; Learning and the entrepreneurial mindset; Managing knowledge; Tools and teams for distributed innovation; SMEs: opportunities & threats; Diversity management: women in innovation, working across cultures; Public policy to stimulate networks; and Tools and instruments for innovation management training. Keynote Speakers will include: Costas Politis (2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee Member), Frédéric Richard (Director, Strategic Research and Economics ranch, UNIDO), George M. Korres (Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece), Paul Sloane (CEO, Destination Innovation, UK), and Sally Davenport (Associate Dean, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). For full details see the conference website at www.ispim.org/ispim2006.
DRUID Summer Conference 2006
The DRUID Summer Conference 2006 -- Knowledge, Innovation and Competitiveness: Dynamics of Firms, Networks, Regions and Institutions will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 18 to June 20. The conference intends to map theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, further contribute with novel insights and stimulate civilized controversies in industrial dynamics. The program includes plenary interventions from prominent scholars. Main features are daily panel debates where top-end researchers take sides on heated contemporary issues within industrial dynamics.
The conference's parallel paper sessions will be organized around nine themes:
A: Networks and Knowledge Creation, Accumulation and Exchange
B: The Emergence and Growth of Markets and Industries
C: Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship
D: Innovative Regions and Growth
E: Intellectual Property Rights: Open vs. Closed Regimes
F: Localized knowledge pools, global knowledge flows
G: Corporate Innovation, Strategy and Organization
H: Institutional Change and Performance
I: Creativity, Experimentation and Organization
52nd Creative Problem Solving Institute
Please join us for the Creative Problem Solving Institute 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, from June 25-30, 2006!
Mark the date, make the time! The world's longest-running creativity event taps the imagination of the Windy City! More details, the call for proposals and other information can be found online at www.cpsiconference.com.
Want to learn skills for applying your imagination to real-world challenges? Discover a proven process for Creative Problem Solving? Meet diverse, international people who share these pursuits? Plan now to be at the Creative Education Foundation's 52nd annual Creative Problem Solving Institute in 2006.
8th Annual Global Business and Technology Association Conference
The Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA) Eighth Annual International Conference will be held in Moscow, Russia, June 27 - July 1, 2006. The event is organized around the theme "Management and Technology in the Global Economy: Nurturing Innovations and National Heritage".
Sponsored by the State University of Management and Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd. (Russia), St. John's University (USA), Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa), Monash University (Australia), Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal), Fu Jen University (Taiwan) and the University of Richmond (USA). GBATA features cutting-edge work and encourages multi-disciplinary as well as discipline-specific research. Many attendees have stated how much they have enjoyed the conferences and the collegiality they foster. Further background on GBATA, the call for papers, programs, and services are available on the event website at www.gbata.com.
2006 Aspen Ideas Festival: Inspired Thinking in an Idyllic Setting
For more than 50 years, the Aspen Institute has been the nation’s premier gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times. In a groundbreaking extension of its mandate to create opportunities for deep dialogue, the Aspen Institute, with its partner The Atlantic, is engaging a broader audience in a discussion of some of the significant ideas and issues that touch all parts of our society through the arts, science, culture, religion, philosophy, economics, and politics. The event will be held July 3-9 in Aspen, Colorado.
Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world will gather in a single place—to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer. Throughout the week, they will interact with an audience of thoughtful people who have stepped back from their day-to-day routines to delve deeply into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion. The 2006 Ideas Festival will be a thought-provoking, meaningful, and fun—true to Aspen tradition. For more information, see www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/
Créa-Université International Conference
Creativity Practice meets the University for the second time in Europe! The Créa-Université International Conference will be held in Paris, France, July 5-6, 2006. Program open to the general public, with conferences, workshops, poster presentations, "creative breaks" and more ... in French and in English.
Topics are Creativity Methods, Creativity and Personal Development, the Psychology of Creativity, and Case Studies, with a mix of the top researchers from the University and top facilitators and trainers from the world of Applied Creativity. The conference is organized by Université René Descartes and Association Française pour le Développement de la Créativité (www.crea-france.com). For more information, see www.crea-univ.com.
UK Literacy Association 42nd Annual Conference
Windows on the Imagination: Literacy and Creativity
This conference will be held at the University of Nottingham,
7th - 9th July, 2006, to disseminate and celebrate work that showcases highly creative literacy teaching and learning. It will provide an opportunity to examine critically pedagogical approaches aimed at fostering innovation, inventiveness and the imagination. It will explore research and practice on the following themes:
*teachers' autonomy, subject knowledge and confidence
*the place of drama, poetry and literature in nurturing and inspiring creativity;
*the assessment of both creative process and product
*the relationship between thinking, creativity and literacy pedagogies
*the role of new technologies in the creative process and the creative practices engaged in by learners as they navigate multimedia, multimodal worlds
*the role played by out-of-school cultures in fostering engaged and motivated learners who value creativity
*the importance of speaking and listening as an integral part of the creative act.
Proposals for presentations, seminars and workshops are invited, for return by 30th November, 2005, and to be submitted to: International Conference Director, UKLA, Upton House, Baldock Street, Royston, SG8 5AY, UK. email: admin@ukla.org For more info, visit the event website at www.ukla.org/site/conferences/international/index.php.
Imagination: A Writers' Workshop and Conference
Imagination is a conference about strong, imaginative writing, modern and postmodern, from minimal to magical realism, from new journalism to science fiction, from poetry to playwriting to memoir and the novel. It includes classes and workshops without genre bias or boundaries, courses about distinctive, inventive, arresting, audacious, and convincing writing. Period.
Afternoon Workshops (Wednesday through Sunday) are small and each group works in turn with every workshop leader. Moreover, during the week each workshop student meets in an individual conference with a second faculty member, carefully going over his or her work, for a second opinion.
Morning classes, lectures, and discussions address the practice, the theory, and the politics of writing as well as issues of craft and those techniques weaving imagination and innovation into some of the best contemporary writing. Each morning ends with a reading.
4th International Conference on Imagination and Education
Opening Doors to Imaginative Education: Connecting theory to practice
After three years of well received conferences, the IERG and the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University are excited to once again welcome people from around the world to our event. The Fourth International Conference on Imagination and Education will be held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12th-15th. The conference will bring together over 350 teachers, administrators, academics, graduate students and people interested in education to consider themes of imaginative education.
The Conference opens on the evening of Wednesday July 12th with an introduction and opening plenary followed by a reception for all delegates and presenters. Featuring the musical stylings of a local band, delegates spend the rest of the evening meeting and socializing with new and old acquaintances and colleagues.
Taking place at the Coast Hotel & Suites, the next three days are filled with a variety of presentations, workshops, roundtables and panel discussions that will suit anyone who is interested in imaginative education and connecting theory to practice. For more info, see www.ierg.net/confs/index.php?cf=1.
17th Annual Alden B. Dow Creativity Conference
This year's Alden B. Dow Creativity Conference will be held July 13-16, 2006, on the campus of Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. The event will be a global assembly of those who value, teach, and practice creativity. Come and share in this stimulating opportunity to Interact, Learn, Create, Celebrate with an emphasis on the Application of Creativity...all in a supportive and nourishing environment. Participants are higher education teachers and practitioners of creativity in both academia and enterprise who attend to gain tools and techniques and learn new teaching methods. Join us to explore Creativity from Inspiration! For more info, visit www.northwood.edu/abd, e-mail creativity@northwood.edu, or call the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center at 989.837.4478.
China Creative Studies Institute Conference
The China Creative Studies Institute (www.ccsis.org) will hold a conference on Innovation & Creation and Sustainable Development from August 22-25, 2006 at The Center of Science and Technology of Beijing. For more information, contact CCSI by email at Ccsis@ccsis.org or by phone at 86.21.65983933.
Science and Technology Policy Research 40th Anniversary Conference
SPRU's 40th Anniversary Conference: The Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Linking Research And Practice will take place 11th-13th September 2006. This event offers the opportunity to engage in a critical evaluation of the present and future research agenda of the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) field. We seek to explore empirical, theoretical, and applied policy approaches that can enable us to conceptualize the contradictory nature of modern science and technology and innovation, and thus provide practical policy guidance. Themes include: Science--Ownership, Accountability and Relevance of Science; Technology--Security and Sustainability of Technology; and Innovation--Dynamics of Innovation Interfaces.
The three themes are representative of established research subfields in the broader STI field. However, this conference aims to provide an opportunity for dialogue among the different academic 'tribes' that inhabit the different subfields. For this reason, we are particularly interested in contributions that address the intersections of science, technology and innovation and take forward-looking approaches in investigating their impacts on society. Moreover, we encourage critical evaluation of the approaches developed by the STI research community and their use in policy practice. We welcome scholars at an early stage in their career and in innovative agenda-setting papers that take the opportunity to critically engage with well established, but possibly limited, theoretical frameworks. Alongside mainstream disciplinary contributions, interdisciplinary papers and contributions embracing international or comparative perspectives are also invited.
Overall, we invite participants and contributions that are willing to engage in developing the future research agenda of the STI field. The conference aims to trigger a critical and collective dialogue that could contribute to making the STI field more exciting and challenging for our research community, more relevant to policy practice and more 'in synch' with society at large. Further details about registering for the conference and booking accommodation at the University of Sussex are available via the SPRU Conference web page at www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/conf2006 or by e-mailing SPRU40thConf@sussex.ac.uk.
4th Annual Mindcamp in Toronto
Mindcamp 2006, Toronto's Fourth Creativity Weekend, will be held September 14-17, 2006, at the Cedar Glen Discovery Campus. Mindcamp is a four-day micro-university for personal, professional, and organizational creativity a feast of 90-minute concurrent sessions, from the solidly practical to the practically solid, presented by the best creativity leaders in North America and around the world. Mindcamp exposes more than 100 creative people to a wide range of perspectives on the research and practice of deliberate creativity. And on top of our scheduled programs, there are evening salons, dialog sessions, music, dancing, campfires, and just plain fun.
Mindcamp is held at Cedar Glen Discovery Campus, 45 minutes north of Toronto. Cedar Glen offers full-service accommodation and meeting facilities on 263 beautiful wilderness acres in the Caledon Hills, with miles of hiking trails, wildlife ponds, a beautiful modern dining room, and even a games room. For more info, visit http://thinkxic.com/mindcamp/weekend.php.
International Masterclass on Creativity Tools and Skills
The Creative Leadership Forum is delighted to invite you to an International Masterclass on Creativity Tools and Skills to be held in capital cities in Australia during September 2006. In Brisbane on the 14th, Melbourne on the 18th, and Sydney on the 21st, the masterclasses will be led by Dr. Kobus Neethling, Executive Director of the South African Creativity Foundation. For the full programme for this event and to register, go to www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com. For further enquiry, please call Ralph Kerle on SkypeIn 61(02)
80035027.
12th Annual International Creativity Conference in Africa
The 12th Annual International Creativity Conference in Africa (ACRE 12) will be held 3-6 October 2006 at the Klein Kariba Hot Springs Resort in Bela-Bela, South Africa. The South African conference is the longest-running, most acclaimed conference of its kind in the world -- with only one exception, the American CPSI which is held in Chicago, USA this year. We invite you to come and meet company directors, sales and marketing managers, decision-makers, academics, management consultants, entrepreneurs, etc. at the conference. Share the inspiration and prepare yourself for the future! Yesterday's success has never mattered less. Experience increased possibilities for new knowledge to meet the new challenges of tomorrow. Many of the international speakers who have delighted audiences in the past will be back and we will have a number of 'top of the list' international experts joining the team of presenters this year. Take this opportunity to enrich your life and the lives of those around you. For more info, visit www.sacreativity.com.
International Creativity Conference for Education
The South African Creativity Foundation in collaboration with Edupals and Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA) are pleased to present the 1st International Creativity Conference for Education: Making Creativity Happen in Education. Every critical aspect of creative education will be addressed at this event: leadership, management, teaching, learning, building relationships, discipline, communication, finding unique ideas, and whole brain applications. The all inclusive fee for this event is R4,000 which covers accommodation, all meals, and conference registration. The conference will be held October 8-11 at the beautiful Goudini Resort less than an hours drive from the Cape Town airport. For more information, click here.
TRIZ Future Conference 2006
The TRIZ Future Conference 2006, "Creativity, Quality, & Efficiency, Building an Innovation Culture," will be held in Belgium, Kortrijk on October 9-11, 2006. Globalisation, international cooperation, and innovation are topics which are significantly gaining impact on quality management. The Flemish Quality Management Center has bundled its strengths with ETRIA's TRIZ Future Conference to explore this trend.
The organising committee invites you to attend the TRIZ Future Conference 2006 in Kortrijk, a Belgian ‘Design City’ with many historic buildings, cosy bars and restaurants. Besides the paper sessions, the program includes several world leading industrial visits, a TRIZ innovation museum, and Belgian culinary delights. For more information, visit www.triz.be.
2006 International IdeaFestival
What do an arts critic, terrorism expert, visual effects artist, physicist, pianist, middle east diplomat, jazz musician, venture capitalist and new media blogger all have in common? They'll be among the participating speakers and performers at the 2006 International IdeaFestival™, a four day event devoted to the power of ideas, innovation, unconstrained imagination and the exploration of shared thinking in Louisville, Kentucky on October 11-14. IdeaFestival gathers local, regional, national and international speakers to engage attendees as they explore the impact of ideas. The event is designed to appeal to people from all walks of life citizens, entrepreneurs, artists, business executives, inventors, scientists, and educators, among others.
Notable speakers scheduled to participate include inventor, innovator and entrepreneur Burt Rutan, who founded Scaled Composites, the world's most productive aerospace prototype development company and built the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, a turbofan round-the-world-capable aircraft built for Marathon Racing. Other participants include DJ Spooky (a.k.a. Multimedia Hip-Hop Artist Paul D. Miller) a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York, and John Gaeta, who is best known for his work creating visual effects for the movie The Matrix, which won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA award in 2000. Also presenting will be groundbreaking writer Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003), the critically acclaimed biography of the novelist, anthropologist and legendary boundary-breaker. Inventor, entrepreneur, author and leading futurist Ray Kurzweil will share his thoughts and ideas. For more info, visit www.ideafestival.com.
12th Annual Innovation Convergence
Innovation Convergence 2006 will be held at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego, California on October 16-18, 2006. A 360 degree innovation experience, keynotes for the event will include: Alan Webber (author & co-founder of Fast Company Magazine), Jeneanne M. Rae (one of Business Week's "Magnificent Seven"), and Daniel Pink (author of A Whole New Mind). New conference features for this year's event are three keynotes by leading gurus of innovation, three keynotes by corporate innovation champions, over 30 corporate case studies, in-depth innovation labs with leading edge practitioners, and an innovation practicum sponsored by a non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.iirusa.com/convergence.
Sustainable Innovation 06
Sustainable Innovation 06: Global challenges, issues and solutions (11th International Conference) will be held October 23rd– 24th 2006 at the Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago USA. The event is organised by The Centre for Sustainable Design in Association with The Center for Sustainable Enterprise & Stuart Graduate School of Business.
Sustainable Innovation 06 will provide a platform to discuss global challenges and opportunities for sustainable product/service development and design. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case studies and examples. Sustainable Innovation 06 will include invited and refereed papers covering sustainable product/service development and design from academics, consultants, product designers and design engineers, sustainability, environment and CSR managers and other business functions. The event will be a unique learning experience and networking opportunity. Delegates will come from large companies, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized (SMEs), as well as academia, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). For more information, please visit www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd11.
The Next Idea Creativity Conference
The Next Idea Creativity Conference will take place October 27 - 29, 2006, in New Lebanon, New York. This popular weekend event will include sessions on:
* Inventium® - The Inventing Game
* Heart Art - Using Emotional and Physical Intelligence
* Appreciative Inquiry - When you are at your Creative Best
* Breaking the "Hi Performance" Myth
* Happiness is a Beautiful UFO Ride
* Creative Transitions
* Zen Meditation, Drawing and the Garden
* Change as a Critical Incident
* Harvesting The Creative Subconscious
* Superhero Training
* Applied Storytelling
* The Creative Art of Soul Listening
* Creating the Future Through Conversation
* Waste into Wealth - The Art of Resourcefulness
* Humor, Magic and Creativity
* Zoom! Don't Assume
* Quantum Creativity
* Drawing: A Pathway to Self Discovery
2006 Creative Mind Conference: Art, Reflection, and Creativity in the Classroom
11th Annual International Creativity Conference in Latvia
The 11th Annual International Creativity Conference, "Creativity as a Process" will be held in Riga, Latvia 10 -11th November, 2006 (see www.rpiva.lv & www.lvasa.lv). It focuses on the artistic, pedagogical, scientific, organisational creativity, development of creative thinking and creative imagery with different age groups, creativity and personality and numerous other issues in creativity research. For more information please contact Associate Professor Diana Rumpite via e-mail at dianar@rsf.rtu.lv or by phone at +371 9459164.
The Future of Food Design
The Future of Food Design will be held Thursday, November 23, 2006, at the Hotelschool in Amsterdam. Taste, presentation of food, atmosphere, even design of food itself have existed for a long time, but they were often treated as separate elements. The contemporary awareness in design as well as in food culture enable a more holistic approach, which recently led to outstanding creative developments.
This event is going to highlight three influential aspects: a) aesthetics from a consumer perspective, b) innovative food products and c) design supporting senses and a good time. For more info, visit www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=634.
Art of the Animal:
A Symposium on the Nature of Human and Animal Creativity
The Art of the Animal symposium explores the nature of art, humans, and inter-species creativity over two days. Taking place on 27-28 November at the Seaworld Nara Resort (www.seaworldnara.com.au), Gold Coast, Queensland, it is the inaugural symposium of Griffith University’s The Human Question research program
A key question explored through the symposium is how human creativity differs from or is similar to that of other creatures. Ultimately, the question of ‘what makes us human?’ will be debated. In this sense one objective is to raise awareness of animal consciousness and human relatedness to other creatures. We are all animals but human creativity has taken us on a different path from other creatures. Our current and future creative paths will also be explored and debated. For info, contact Jill Jones (Events Coordinator) at j.jones@griffith.edu.au (e-mail), +61 (0)7 373 57338 (phone), or +61 (0)7 373 54132 (fax) or visit www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cpci/news/content_artoftheanimal.html.
