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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Dries Buytaert
Creator and Project Lead, Drupal
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Robin Chase
Founder, Buzzcar and Zipcar
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Beth Coleman
Co-director of the Critical Media Lab, Professor of English Literature and Languages, University of Waterloo, Ontario
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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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Andrew Hessel
Genomic Futurist and Distinguished Researcher, Autodesk, Inc.
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Valdis Krebs
Founder, Chief Scientist, orgnet.com
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Jeff Lieberman
Sculptor, Musician, Roboticist, Host, Discovery Channel's Time Warp
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Nicholas Lowinger
Founder, Gotta Have Soul, Inc.
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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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Carne Ross
Founder and Director, Independent Diplomat
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Hillary Salmons
Executive Director, Providence After School Alliance
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Rachel Shuster
Founder, Kids Care Club HHH
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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
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Register NowExclusive 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.
BIF Summit Videos
Videos recorded live at the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, RI are all available online! Here's a small sample from this inspiring collection.
