2007 Event Announcements
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Cultures of Creativity:
The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize

The National University of Singapore is proud to bring you the world-renowned “Cultures of Creativity – the Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize”. Singapore is the 12th destination in this exhibition’s 15-city world tour. The event will run from 26 October 2006 to 24 January 2007.

A traveling showcase of creativity, this exhibition sets you thinking along two lines: what is creativity? And what is most meaningful in the creative process – the person or the environment? To find the answer to these questions, come see and be inspired by the original artifacts, unique displays and film snippets on the creative geniuses of the Nobel Laureates, the Nobel System and the man who made the Nobel Prize possible, Alfred Nobel.  Expect to learn more about the environment and the unplanned activities that inspired these men and women to think in entirely new directions.   For more information, see www.nus.edu.sg/nobelexhibition.


Creativity or Conformity:
Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education

We all agree that students learn best when they are strongly motivated. Most of us agree, too, that motivation is best stimulated in an environment which is open and flexible, which encourages innovation, which is, in a word, creative. And yet many of us find that such an environment is increasingly difficult to maintain. In an audit-driven culture, with its emphasis on targets, room for exploration constantly contracts. The demands of assessment, increasing student numbers, the RAE, and a growing administrative burden only exacerbate these problems.

On January 8-10, 2007, the Creativity or Conformity conference in Cardiff, Wales will focus on how these tensions affect higher education: its organisational cultures and its teaching and learning practices alike. Through sharing experience, it will discover practical methods of promoting creative learning in the face of increasingly stringent economic, legislative, and pedagogic constraints. And, more strategically, it will help us develop ways of influencing policy in this area.

Contributors and delegates are invited from every discipline and every area of responsibility in higher education. Educators, researchers, managers, institutional leaders, policy-makers, funders, practitioners, research students and consultants are all expected to take part. Speakers include specialists in education, psychology, biology, engineering, literature, health and sociology. But they also straddle traditional academic boundaries and are known for their inspirational and eclectic approaches to the issue of creativity. For more information, see www.creativityconference.org.


Great Ideas Conference 2007

Come plant the seeds of change and watch your creative ideas grow at the Great Ideas Conference January 27-30, 2007 in Marco Island, Florida!

Till your garden of knowledge and let the warm Florida sun provide the energy you need to make your ideas come to life. Explore GREAT ideas that could grow your association’s membership, exceed your program’s attendance goals, make your associations run smoother, and much more!


For more information, see www.greatideasconference.org/marcoisland.


3rd Global Conference on Creative Engagements--Thinking with Children

The 3rd Global Conference: Creative Engagements - Thinking with Children will take place 9th February to 11th February, 2007, in Sydney, Australia. The third meeting of this global research project shall explore the many facets of creative engagement with children. Grounded in an inter-disciplinary perspective and with reference to historical and contemporary representations of childhood, this project will examine the complex issues which surround the notion and practices of creative engagement in the context of pedagogy and the curriculum, and in the face of frequently instrumental institutional imperatives. More generally, our work will also address the role of creativity in social interaction, with particular reference to children's development of life skills, autonomy and independence in an increasingly complex and demanding world. For more information, see www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/cp/ce3/cfp.htm.


Florida Creativity Weekend IV--Portal to Creativity

Save time on your calendars for Florida Creativity Weekend IV - March 2-4, 2007 in beautiful Sarasota, Florida.


Concurrent Sessions are designed for business, educators, not-for-profits and personal growth. Some examples of sessions include: Power Convergence; E-Creativity; DuYu Sudoku? CanYu Kakuro?; Ways to Solve Problems Worth Solving; Couples & Family Problem Solving; Heart Math; Exercise Balls – Aligning the Mind and Body; The Art and Use of Storytelling; Active Learning; The Imaginarium – Ways to Incorporate Creative Activities into Meetings and Learning; Communications Without Words; Journaling; Healthy Aging; and many more. For more info, see www.flcreativity.com.


TED2007

TED2007, "Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks," will be held March 7-10, 2007, in Monterey, California. The past few TEDs have each had a broad content theme:"The Pursuit of Happiness", "Inspired by Nature", "The Future We Will Create." TED2007 will be different. Instead of a subject-matter theme, we are simply going to put on stage FIFTY REMARKABLE PEOPLE... ...and let them share whatever it is they are passionate about.

This, of course, is what TED has always been about. Bring together extraordinary people from every area of thought, work and culture, and lo and behold, astonishing connections are made, excitement and inspiration follow.

It works this way because all knowledge is connected. Hearing experts in your field may deliver incremental improvements to what you do... But if you want the big breakthrough, the giant Aha... then you have to emerge from your trench, climb to higher ground and see the big picture. For more information, see http://www.ted.com.


Caribbean Creativity:
Self Empowerment Through the Arts, Sciences  and the Tao

“Acknowledge your talents, For they are a firm foundation on which to grow.Embrace  your strengths, for they are a treasure, which none can steal.”  Lao Tzu

Come join us March 12-16, 2007 on a beautiful, warm Island in the Caribbean, called Vieques, Puerto Rico, while using your creativity to explore your strengths, purpose and passions and to find answers or new insights. In this week long workshop you will have a chance to experience the philosophy of the Tao, or the Way, as it applies to creativity. The Tao is about Listening to Your Own Voice, Being in the Moment,  Effortless Action, Enjoying the Journey rather than the Destination and the Importance of Nothingness. The Tao includes both the Yin and the Yang – the arts and the sciences.  For more information contact Judith and Andre de Zanger, Directors of the CreativityInstitute.net, at 212-289-8856 or creativityinstitute@juno.com.


Mindcamp Idea Tasting

Mindcamp's next "Idea Tasting" will be held Saturday March 17, 2007. Please join us to take part in a series of workshops and seminars exploring personal, professional, and organizational creativity — presented by the best creativity leaders in North America. This exciting afternoon of concurrent creativity workshops is being held in support of Facilitators Without Borders.

Date: Saturday March 17, 2007
Time: 1:00-5:30 pm
Where: Verity, 111d Queen Street East, Toronto
Admission: suggested donation $20, pay at the door (funds to benefit FWB)
Register: Email kristen@mindcamp.org
Light refreshments will be served. 

For more info, see http://thinkxic.com/mindcamp/tastings.php.


18th Annual American Creativity Association Conference

As we gather for ACA’s 2007 International Conference, our vision is to explore all aspects of creativity as applied to the pragmatic challenges and opportunities facing people everywhere including, but not limited to, business, industry, education, technology, health care, nonprofits, leadership, & culture. Presenters and participants will learn from each other through interacting and addressing real challenges and opportunities facing all sectors of endeavor. Join us for a wonderful opportunity to learn, observe, and engage in the craft of creativity.

Bringing ideas to action and innovation to market, creativity's role in personal and professional learning will be explored. How are knowledge and wisdom created and transferred to present and future practitioners? What happens when people confront a challenge not seen before or one that is beyond their current means? What are the approaches, processes, and hands-on techniques that accelerate the search for creative solutions? How do the “connections” get made that lead to new and innovative ideas or approaches? We will share valuable keys to creativity and the understanding that comes from these real world encounters, including the “magnificent failures” in which the lessons learned provide valuable insight to the application of creativity.

The 2007 International Conference of the American Creativity Association, Creativity@Work, will be held March 21-23 in Austin, Texas with pre & post Conference Institutes on March 19-20 & March 24. For more information, visit the conference web site at www.amcreativityassoc.org/2007Conf-overview.html or contact Bud Wurtz at william.wurtz@gmail.com.
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PDMA/IIR Service Innovation Design and Development Conference

The PDMA/IIR Service Innovation Design and Development Conference will be held March 21-23 in San Diego, CA has been designed to take you through the entire lifecycle of the service business model, from ideating new service concepts to designing, prototyping and piloting them, and successfully bringing them through to launch.  PDMA and IIR have developed a forum that will offer insight into the unique challenges that service practitioners  face while presenting strategic techniques to apply to the lifecycle management process.  Whether you are a service innovator, market researcher, designer or engineer, this conference will offer you the inspiration and information you need to drive service innovation. For more info, visit www.iirusa.com/service.


ETech: Emerging Technology Conference

In 2007, we expect Internet access to be instant, music collections to fit into our pockets, and communication as a constant. Technology is so tightly woven into our lives that at times we scarcely notice it. And yet, there are innovators, hackers, and thinkers plotting revolutions—often by simply reexamining underlying assumptions we already take for granted. From the infrastructure supporting mass-market players, the promise of mass computing, and alternative energy sources to personalized medicine, movie magic, web heresies, and talking paper, ETech 2007 explores the technological rejiggering and changes in perspective that are poised to blast off into the realm of magic. Join us March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego, CA—be a part of the ideas, tools, and discussions happening today that will give rise to the magic of tomorrow. For more information, see the event web site at  http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2007.


Creativity in Advertising 2007

Consumers are increasingly difficult to engage. They control their own media, they multi-task, they timeshift. And, increasingly, they resent the volume of ads we push at them – yet they are at least quite interested in creating their own ads if we invite them to. All this puts increasing pressure on ad creativity, to cut through the clutter and genuinely involve our target audiences – emotionally as well as rationally. The ability of consumers to choose what media they engage with, and when, creates a complex challenge for creatives; a challenge both of precisely defining the people you wish to reach, of identifying where and when to find them and of creating the ads that will entice and enchant them.

This year’s conference, on March 29th in London,  offers the chance to debate some of the key issues surrounding creativity and provides some real insight of right brain thinking and campaign success stories that deliver creative inspiration and build brands.
Target Audience: Anyone responsible for marketing brands - from advertising and marketing services agency managers and creatives - to marketing teams from client companies who want to understand how to make best use of their creative resources. For more information, see event web site at http://store.warc.com/DisplaySection.aspx?Section=8&ProductID=3315&TabID=1.


HCI Educators 2007: Creativity3--Experiencing to Educate and Design

HCIEd 2007 (March 29-30, Aveiro, Portugal) is the annual international conference of Human-Computer Interaction Educators from both industry and academia. This year the conference focuses on the theme "Creativity3: Experiencing to educate and design." While it has been argued that creativity is an innate human quality, we have also seen that, as we expand our experiences of creativity and increase our repertoire of design solutions, we can improve our ability to develop new, creative and innovative HCI design solutions. Creativity, education and design as well as its reach and vivid experience are the dimensions we want to explore in HCIEd 2007, endeavouring at a better understanding of creative processes and abilities while encouraging and nurturing creative mindsets.

As attentive and proactive educators we need to ensure that our teaching practices empower creative thinking on the design of interactive systems and applications. Now and in the future, HCI teachers are challenged to introduce Design as a permanent creative process of the technological developments that, apart from level of complexity, sustain our everyday life activities. An HCI educator’s “provocation” is therefore to encourage a permanent creative engaging experience. HCIEd 2007 aims at broadening and promoting the discussion concerning HCI education and its related aspects. The Conference seeks to strengthen the dialogue among disciplines contributing to HCI education, such as psychology, design, ergonomics, etc. For more information, see www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hcied2007/index.php?nav=home.


New Frontiers in Arts Sociology:
Creativity, Support, and Sustainability

The ESA Research Network Sociology for the Arts will hold its 8th meeting March 28-April 1, 2007, in Lueneburg (Germany), with additional events in near-by Hamburg. The main conference venue will be at the University of Lueneburg, close to the medieval old town. The conference will feature keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, workshops, and round tables.

Following the triad theme of the conference, "Creativity, Support, and Sustainability" , we will put an emphasis on those issues that are of sociological interest within arts worlds but also relate to those powerful developments in economy, ecology and ethic contexts on the macro level that influence, manipulate or determine production, content and forms, distribution and reception of the arts. for more information, see www.new-arts-frontiers.eu.


Ideas2007: Creativity Beyond Borders

Ideas2007: Creativity Beyond Borders will be held in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, between April 7th-9th, 2007.  This will be a unique event, a means to connect ideas and people and elevate industry and professional standards in the region. The conference will bring together extraordinary people - leaders, innovators, thinkers and practitioners - as speakers, presenters and participants on the subject of the creative economy.

The 2-day conference objective is to provoke real change in creative thinking and practices. The program includes an intensive workshop experience centred on the theme of creativity and enterprise. For more info, see www.cbb2007.com. 


Creativity and Innovation Day 2007

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.

Creativity and Innovation Day 2007 will celebrate the theme "Plant a seed. Watch it grow." Remember to join the worldwide celebration of Creativity and Innovation Week beginning April 15 (Leonardo da Vinci's birthday) and ending on Creativity and Innovation Day April 21 -- this year and every year. For more information, visit www.creativityday.org.


Encounter on Applied Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

The Center of Applied Creativity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Chile is a non-profit organization dedicated to the investigation, development, and facilitation of applied creativity.  The Center is organizing an International Encounter around the theme of Applied Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.  The event, "Living Creativity: A Practical Experience that Creates Value... From the Theory to the Practice," will be held in Santiago, Chile on April 18-21, 2007.

The vision of the event organizers is to deeply and lastingly install the applied creativity way as intention, action and thought in the people, promoting theoretical and practical methodologies in the management of organizations, companies, and governments.  For more detailed information in English, click here.  For more detailed information in Spanish, click here or visit the event web site at www.creatividadaplicada.cl/evento.htm.


5th Annual CREA Conference

What does the CREA conference offer? The conference, April 18-22, offers time and space to be creative, while learning how to live and work creatively. Sestri Levante, Italy, is the setting for this unique mix of people, cultures and ideas.

How does the CREA conference explore the deliberate use of creativity (purposeful creativity)? Through the various core programs, workshops and other activities, such as the labyrinth, biodance, drumming, meditation tent and more!

More about the programs? Participants will learn the latest models and theories in Creativity and Creative Problem Solving, along with new tools and techniques for applying them to daily life and work. As well, a variety of 90 minute workshops (Expos) offer participants a chance to customize their learning throughout the conference.

The result? Feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and revitalized! Oxygen to your brain! For more info, visit www.creaconference.com.


3rd Annual Create and Innovate

Create and Innovate is More than a Conference -- It is a Platform for Learning. The innovative format of the event is intended as an Innovation & Creativity “make & do” session rather than a traditional “speaker driven” conference. It will involve up to 20 influential business leaders and specialist innovation workshop experts as speakers, workshop facilitators and panelists.

Create and Innovate - Network Building: This interactive learning forum provides knowledge and training through practical workshops from international creativity and Innovation experts. Teaching a series of practical techniques, the forum will provide real insight into how innovative businesses create new ideas, ensure their ideas are protected, react to changing markets and engage with their customers in fostering innovation. Companies will return from the forum with the ground work, tools and know how to innovate their business model or product development process.

Create and Innovate 2007 will be held April 25th 2007 at The Helix, DCU, Dublin 9. For more info, contact Candice Murphy at candice@createexpress.com.


The 5th Annual PDMA/IIR Front End of Innovation Event

The 5th Annual PDMA/IIR Front End of Innovation Event (held May 8-11th in Boston, MA) is the one place you need to be in 2007. Listen and exchange ideas with innovation champions as they share strategies for creating products that will stay “top of mind” today and for years to come. Interact with best selling authors, corporate leaders, and visionary thinkers. Your product IS your business. Make innovation work for you.  For more information about a cast of more than 90 All-Star, Keynote level speakers ready to help you fine tune and revamp your innovation engine and to register, visit www.iirusa.com/frontend.


Applied Business Creativity in 21st-Century Organisations

Applied Business Creativity in 21st-Century Organisations will be held 30th-31st May 2007, Queen Anne Court, Maritime Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich.  The   Centre  for  Entrepreneurship  is  pleased  to  present  our  Seventh International  Conference  on  Creativity. The Centre is unique in that its ethos  and  activities are underpinned by the twin tenets of creativity and servant leadership...... "if I am the best in what I do, others will follow me".

All presentations will fit in within one of the following four themes:
* Unleashing personal potential
* Innovating to change the world
* High-performance teamwork
* Creative leadership and entrepreneurship

For more information, see: www.gre.ac.uk/schools/business/cfe/events_2007.


Future Problem Solving Program International

The 2007 International Conference will be held May 31-June 3 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) engages students in creative problem solving.  Founded by creativity pioneer, Dr. E. Paul Torrance, FPSPI stimulates critical and creative thinking skills and encourages students to develop a vision for the future.  FPSPI features curricular and co-curricular competitive, as well as non-competitive, activities in creative problem solving.  The Future Problem Solving Program International involves over 250,000 students annually from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Malaysia, and Russia.  For more information, see www.fpsp.org.


Creativity & Cognition 2007

The Creativity & Cognition Conference (June 13-15) has evolved into a lively multidisciplinary event combining research and practice. Rigorous research is expanding as theoretic foundations are emerging and goals become more well-defined. Successful practice manifests itself in a growing array of creativity support tools for discovery and composition by software and other engineers, diverse scientists, product and graphic designers, architects, new media artists, musicians, educators, students, and many others. We believe that deeper understanding of creative processes and improved support tools can make more people more creative more of the time.

Creativity & Cognition 2007 is focused on theme of cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and socio-technical environments that not only empower our creative processes and abilities, but that also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles. For more information, see www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007.


IANIS+ Annual Conference 2007

The IANIS+ 2007 Conference -- Innovation & Technology: Knowledge-Based Regions in a Competitive Europe -- will take place in Bilbao, Spain, June 13-15, 2007.  The event is organised by The European Regional Information Society Association in the frame of The Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society – Plus and co-financed by DG Regional Policy.

The IANIS+ 2007 Conference in Bilbao will address:

The conference will highlight issues relating to development of the knowledge-based society, on the importance of the creative class and role of place and regional identity, and the ways in which ICT can foster and support such developments. For more information, see www.ianis.net/index.php?page=events&sub=detail&idevent=1619.


World Children's Festival

This June we will host the world's largest celebration of children's creativity and imagination - the World Children's Festival - at the most prestigious public venue in the world - The National Mall. You are invited to join the children at their World Festival on June 23-25, 2007 on the National Mall at 4th to 7th Streets, between the National Gallery of Art and the National Air and Space Museum.  Opening every day with a ceremony at 10:30 am, the festival activities will continue until 5pm each day and will be free and open to the public. The Festival will showcase children's creativity, imagination and talent; equip them with communication, collaboration and leadership skills; and promote mutual respect and trust as a foundation to future peace-building initiatives. The fusion of art, sport and technology with dance and musical performances, co-creation of art, and workshops on peace education and creative leadership, make the Festival a complete synesthetic experience - a total work of art that transforms the National Mall.  For more information, see www.icaf.org/worldfestival.


53rd Creative Problem Solving Institute

Want to learn skills for applying your imagination to real-world challenges? Discover a proven process for Creative Problem Solving?  Join us at the Creative Education Foundation's 53rd International Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) 2007.  CPSI is like no other conference.  It is a hands-on learning experience.  CPSI brings together multinationals across disciplines seeking new ways of thinking and new ways of implementing creative solutions.

CPSI provides courses, presentations, processes and events that support breakthrough experiences for participants.  The CPSI experience reinforces the notion that solutions can be found in a more innovative, engaging and inspired way.  In short, it is utilizing all of one’s human capacity to make a difference in our lives, our work and our world.

If you attend, you will learn through some listening and observation, but mostly by doing, developing your creativity with other curious and forward-looking professionals.  The atmosphere is one of collegiality, playfulness, openness, challenge, spirit and purpose. So don’t hesitate to check us out. You won’t be disappointed in what you find. For more info, visit www.cpsiconference.com.


XXIV IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks

The XXIV IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks, Creative Jobs and Creative Companies -- Key Factors for Growth and Competitiveness, will be held in Barcelona on July 2-4, 2007. The theme of the conference is “Creative Jobs and Creative Companies - Key Factors for Growth and Competitiveness”. The city of Barcelona and the conference's theme create a thrilling mix that will attract science park experts, entrepreneurs and institutions from all over the world. We will discuss innovation, creativity and the role of the new knowledge workers as essential factor for growth.

Parc Tecnològic del Vallès (PTV), the first of its kind in Catalonia, has been given the responsibility of organising this IASP event. In 2007 it will commemorate its 20th anniversary. PTV will count on the support of the whole network of Science and Technology Parks of Catalonia and of the public Institutions with competencies in this field (Generalitat of Catalonia and the Spanish Government). For more information, see www.iaspbarcelona2007.com.


5a Conferencia Iberoamericana de Creatividad e Innovación

El evento es una gran celebración de la comunidad creativa de iberoamérica que favorece el intercambio de ideas y experiencias. Reune a más de 60 conferencistas de 25 Universidades Europeas y Latinoamericanas que presentarán trabajos originales e inéditos, en las modalidades, Investigación, Libros Técnicos, estudios de casos, Metodologías y materiales; Ensayo y Libre.

Como una manera de estimular la profesionalización y desarrollo del Potencial Creativo, La Red Creativa de Iberoamérica y el Instituto Iberoamericano para la Innovación y Desarrollo otorgan el Premio Iberoamericano de Creatividad e Innovación en cada una de las modalidades.

El clima de apertura, camaradería y aprendizaje colaborativo que suele crearse en torno a este evento, lo ha ubicado como uno de los más significativos para la comunidad creativa de habla hispana. Te esperamos en Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, 9-11 de julio. 

http://redcreativa.path-leadership.org/5aConferencia.html
redcreativa@path-leadership.org


Cra-Universit Conference 2007

Creativity practicioners meet the University for the third time in Europe! The Cra-Universit Conference will be held in Paris, France, July 10-11, 2007. The program is open to the general public, with conferences and presentations on the creativity and innovation training programs offered by Cra-Universit, "creative breaks" and
more ... in French. The conference is organized by Universit Ren Descartes, Association Franaise pour le Dveloppement de la Crativit (www.crea-france.com) and the Laboratoire de Prospective of the Conservatoire National des Arts et
Mtiers.  For more information, see www.crea-univ.com.


18th Annual International Alden B. Dow Creativity Conference

The 18th Annual Alden B. Dow Conference will take place July 12-15, 2007, on the campus of Northwood University, Midland, Michigan.

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.

The audience comprises higher education teachers and practitioners of creativity in both academia and enterprise. Expect a lively group eager to participate. Join us to explore Creativity from Inspiration! For more information, see www.northwood.edu/abd/intro.html.


World Creativity Summit 2007

The World Creativity Summit 2007 will take place 23rd-25th July, 2007, in  Hong Kong.  The event is an intimate gathering of outstanding scholars, educationalists, artists, scientists, ministers, policy-makers, and entrepreneurs who all believe that our creativity, artistic languages and cultural capital significantly contribute to both economic development and social transformation. Fro more information, see www.worldcreativitysummit.org.


Managing Creativity: The Rise of the Creative Class

The 19th International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC 2007, July 29-August 1) will bring together engineering and management professionals and academics from around the world. This year we are very pleased to be hosting IEMC 2007 in Austin, Texas USA. The organizing committee understands the challenges of developing prosperous communities and building new ventures, both within existing companies and as new companies. The rise of the creative class includes challenges of maturing and focusing efforts on the common good. Another pressure of management is balancing work with family life.

IEMC 2007 is a forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, theories, and knowledge between all persons involved in engineering management and economic development of technologically-focused communities. IEMC 2007 will offer a platform for sharing experiences, presenting new results, and reviewing recent developments with keynote addresses by leading experts in the field. With the business and economic landscape undergoing rapid change, the human side of creativity, innovation, and change management is absolutely vital to corporate revitalization and growth.
For more information, visit http://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/iemc2007/index.cfm.


2007 Idea Festival

Idea Festival is a premiere event in Louisville that attracts some of the world's leading and most-diverse thinkers to explore and celebrate innovation. Idea Festival will be held September 13-15 in Louisville, Kentucky.  Since its inception in 2000, the Idea Festival has gathered regional, national, and international thought-leaders and innovators to engage attendees and one another as they explore the impact of ideas and innovation.  Speakers for the 2007 Festival include Steve Wozniak, inventor and co-founder of Apple Computer; Ray Bradbury, novelist and screenwriter; and Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times. While many events are free, ALL events will require an Event Pass.  For the latest, please continue to visit www.ideafestival.com.


Mindcamp

Mindcamp is a four-day micro-university for personal, professional and organizational creativity — a feast of 90-minute concurrent sessions 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.

The dates are now set for September 13 to 16, 2007 at our beautiful country venue just 45 minutes north of Toronto. We invite you to contact us through the web site at: www.mindcamp.org.


13th Annual International Creativity Conference in Africa

ACRE 13 will be held 2-5 October, 2007 at the Klein Kariba Hot Springs Resort in Bela-Bela, South Africa. The South African conference is one of the longest-running, most acclaimed conferences of its kind in the world. We invite you to come and meet company directors, sales and marketing managers, decision-makers, academics, management consultants, entrepreneurs, and others interested in creativity. 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 new "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, see www.sacreativity.com.


European Conference on Creativity and Innovation X

The 10th European Conference for Creativity and Innovation (ECCI X), will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-17, 2007. See www.eccix.org. Every second year since 1989, the European Association for Creativity and Innovation – EACI – has hosted ECCI, the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. The purpose of ECCI is to facilitate co-operation and cross-fertilization between academics, business life, and trainers in the field of creativity & innovation. We strive to create a conference on creativity and innovation with a high degree of coherence between theme and methods, frame and content. We obligate ourselves to take our own medicine and to go beyond traditional conference preparations and methods (see call for papers by clicking here). Please visit www.eccix.org – go to “Call for Contributions” and tell us, what YOU can contribute with!


13th Annual Innovation Convergence

Mark your Calendars for the 13th Annual Innovation Convergence Innovation Immersion: The 360 Degree Innovation Experience October 15-17, 2007 at the Caleo Resort & Spa  Scottsdale, AZ. The 360 Degree Innovation experience will encompass big picture thinking & corporate case studies as well as hands on skill application during our Innovation Labs, Workshops, and Special Interest Forum.

Confirmed 2007 keynotes to date include: Arkadi Kuhlmann (Chairman, President and CEO, ING DIRECT), Chip Heath (Co-Author, New York Times & Wall Street Journal best seller, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die & Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University), Gunter Pauli (Founder & Director, (ZERI) Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives), and Mary Cullinane (The Technology Architect, Microsoft School of the Future). For more information, visit, http://www.iirusa.com/convergence.


The Next Idea Creativity Conference

The Next Idea Creativity Conference, "Exploring the Art, Science and Spirit of Creativity," is were you can Get Your Next Big Idea, Re-Invent Your Life, Your Career and Business, Renew Your Creative Spirit and Live Your Passion to the fullest. Experience a weekend of diverse workshops given by over 20 out standing leaders in the field of Creativity The weekend (October 26-28) is structured as a "Micro-University" with 3 concurrent sessions every hour and a half. You can select from a wide range of topics in Personal, Professional and Business Creativity.  It is a joyful weekend held during “Leaf-Season” in the Berkshires mountains. Enjoy long walks, fresh air, and wholesome food in the New England countryside while practicing the Art, Science and Spirit of Creativity. For more information, visit the event web site at www.creativityinstitute.net/conference/2007/index.htm.


XLII Annual CLADEA Meeting

The XLII Annual CLADEA Meeting will take place October 28-31, 2007, in Miami, Florida. The academic stream of the conference will follow the themes “Human Capital, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in Latin America's Competitiveness.”

Human Capital: managing people across cultures; leadership behavior; impact of culture on business; management of expatriates; team management; ethics and values; work systems; knowledge creation, management, and spillover; training and development; outsourcing/offshoring; organizational behavior; negotiations.

Innovation: innovation in corporate functions--marketing, financing, production, product development, production systems; technology development; knowledge transfer and dissemination in firms; innovation and diffusion; R&D, networks, and value chains; customer-driven innovation; distribution and other innovations to reach the “bottom of the pyramid;” innovation and creativity; national innovation systems.

Entrepreneurship: new venture creation and growth; social entrepreneurship; family-owned entrepreneurial firms; opportunity identification processes and strategies; environmental influences on venture creation and growth; obstacles to entrepreneurial activity; emerging industries, corporate venturing; venture capital, venture teams; entrepreneurship and economic development; entrepreneurial finance.

For more information, see http://business.fiu.edu/CLADEA/index.cfm.


Live Futures 2020: A World Without Borders

Live Futures 2020: A World Without Borders will be held Sunday November 11 from 2pm-8pm in Victoria Park City Road Camperdown (next to Sydney Uni @ Broadway) in Sydney, Australia.

"A problem cannot be solved by the same mindset that created the problem" - Albert Einstein

So come along and create new mindsets, new paradigms as we explore the future together. Live Futures 2020 is a futures festival supported by the Futures Foundation. Interactive exhibits, workshops, discussions, a barcamp unconference. Music, art, a bringing together of multiple creative communities to create possible futures beyond vested interests. Create your own solutions with others - grab a soapbox or start a picnic discursive yourself. Participate however you want. Xpress yourself on film, computers, mobiles, tv... Join futurists, experts, film makers, technologists, and create the future together. Bring your friends and family, make a day of it. Pass the message along. Communicate, Collaborate, Co-Create!

E-mail liz@futurejourneys.com for more information.


Promoting Deep Learning: Cultivating Intellectual Curiosity, Creativity, and Engagement in College

With two outstanding plenary speakers and more than 30 pre-conference and concurrent sessions, this conference focuses on one of the most critical issues in higher education today-student engagement and success. You'll learn about current research and best practices in plenary sessions led by:
        and Learning Center, Montclair State University, and author of What
        The Best College Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2004)
        Vanderbilt University, and one of the award-winning instructors
        featured in Ken Bain's book
With so many sessions to choose from-including a conversation on best practices with Ken Bain and Jeanette Norden-the conference provides a breadth and depth of topics with something for everyone. Please consider joining The Collaboration on November 16 & 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota for this exciting conference and pass along an invitation to your colleagues that share an interest in improving teaching and learning. For more information, see www.collab.org/programsservices/conferences/Nov07%20Conference.htm.


Mindcamp Idea Tasting

Mindcamp's next "Idea Tasting" will be held Saturday November 17, 2007.  This Idea Tasting is a very special occasion: the official launch of Mindcamp co-founder Tim Hurson's new book, Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking. It will be a book launch like no other, though. Please join us for an afternoon of learning and celebration!

Idea Tastings are a series of workshops and seminars exploring personal, professional, and organizational creativity —  presented by the best creativity leaders in North America. This exciting afternoon of concurrent creativity workshops is being held in support of Facilitators Without Borders.

Date: Saturday November 17, 2007
Time: 1:00-5:30 pm
Where: Ontario College of Art & Design, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
Admission: suggested donation $20, pay at the door; funds to benefit Facilitators Without Borders
Register: Email kristenmindcamp.org


Co- Creativity and Sharing Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education

A HEEG regional event on Co- Creativity and Sharing Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education “Curriculum development, experiential learning and teaching, and assessment methods" will be held 3rd December 2007, 9:00am – 4:30pm in the Nelson Room (overlooking the River Thames), Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, Greenwich (adjacent to the Maritime Campus of the University of Greenwich).

Hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and the University of Greenwich Business School there will be workshops to share best practice + keynote presentations including "Teaching versus developing entrepreneurs" by Chris Barlow PhD, Director, Centre for Experiential Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago; "Cultural Values in Business Creativity" by Margaret J. King, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis, Philadelphia, PA; "Developing Co-Creating Skills in Entrepreneurs" by Janet Finley, Executive Director, The Co-Creativity Institute, Chicago; "The Entrepreneurial Brain" by Jamie O'Boyle, Senior Analyst, Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis, Philadelphia, PA. For more information, see www.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/file/0020/94700/1aHEEGCo-CreativityandSharingBestPracticeinEntrepreneurshipEducationweb.pdf.


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