IdeaFestival this year: Innovative focus on the bottom line

Excerpts from the IdeaFestival Web site:

Founded in 2000, the IdeaFestival is a world-class event that attracts diverse and leading thinkers from across the nation and around the globe to explore and celebrate innovation and cutting-edge ideas.

IdeaFestival is designed to stretch people's thinking, utilizing multiple venues to showcase and discuss important ideas in science, the arts, design, business, film, technology, education, etc.

The Festival is designed to appeal to a broad cross-section of people - and presenters are selected for their ideas and accomplishments, and their ability to communicate to a wide-ranging audience.

The IdeaFestival is all about the bottom line.

Creative people and companies understand that relentless innovation requires a mix of ideas and perspectives as well as the ability to integrate and translate diverse knowledge.

Speakers include

• Lawyer Shirin Ebadi
• Columnist Nicholas Kristof
• Entrepreneur Steve Wozniak
• Writer Ray Bradbury
• Neuroscientist Jeffrey Schwartz

The event will be held September 13 - 15, 2007, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Note (added October 3, 2007, 1:15 PM Mountain): Read about next year's IdeaFestival—with a blawgger twist.

Comments

[Diana L. Skaggs]

Stephanie, I will link to your article later this week, but you may want to correct the year. The dates are correct for 2008. If you attend, please let me know and we will have to get together. Diana

[StephanieWestAllen]

Thanks, Diana. Are you saying that the IdeaFestival Web site is incorrect? I am looking at it right now and it says September 13 - 15, 2007. And, yes, it would be great fun to meet. Stephanie

[Diana L. Skaggs]

Oh dear, It is one thing to age naturally and begin to live in the past, but I am off into the future. Of course, September 2007 is correct and thank you, for my post would have been wrong. Guess I better slow down! Diana