Featured Presenters For 2006:

• Alan Webber, Author & Cofounder of Fast Company Magazine
• Jeneanne M. Rae, one of Business Week's "Magnificent Seven"
• Daniel Pink, Author, A Whole New Mind
• Jim Garrity, Chief Marketing Officer, Wachovia
• Cheryl Perkins, Senior Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, Kimberly-Clark 
• James Damian, Senior Vice President, Experience Development Group, Best Buy 
• David Kuehler, Leader of Clay Street Project, a groundbreaking innovation program at Procter and Gamble
• John Baxter, Executive Vice President, Technology & Quality,
  Kraft Foods
• Carol H. Pletcher, Chief Innovation Officer, Cargill    
• Yogesh Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, Computer Associates

2006 Speaker Line Up:

• Chris Ertel, Co-Head of Practice, Global Business Network
• Matt Marcus, Worldwide Director of E-Business, Gucci
• Mehmood Khan, Global Leader of Innovation Process Development, Unilever
• Frederic Ramioulle, VP Business Innovation Center, Honeywell International
• Krys Moskal, VP People and Organization Development, Pearson Education
• Francis H. K. Chen, Principal Researcher & GM Technical Fellow, General Motors Corporation
• Scott D. Boyce, Ph. D., Technology Analyst, Emerging Technologies, Rohm and Haas Company
• Bob Carter, Customer Success Six Sigma, Raytheon
• Madan Birla, Author, FedEx Delivers
• Daniel Ayala, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo's Global Remittance Services
• Mary Sonnack, Co-Developer, Lead User Methodology, Formerly Division Scientist At 3M, Lead User Concepts
• Gaylon White, Design Industry Programs, Eastman Chemical Company
• Joel Hodroff, Founder and CEO, DualCurrency Systems
• Cynthia Sifonis, Associate Professor, Oakland University
• Anthony Carter, Sr. Business Development Director , Early Stage, Motorola
• Dianne E. Bommarito, Business Manager, Technology Management, General Motors Corporation
• Steven Kowalski Director of Learning and Development, Genentech
• Thomas B. Banks, Hon. FASID, CAE, Deputy Executive Director, American Society of Interior Designers
• Kris Ahlquist, Sr. Organizational Effectiveness Consultant, Carlson Hotels
• Thomas Aitken, Design Director, Johnson Controls
• Corinne Miller, Director, Functional Learning, Motorola
• Bart Huthwaite, Founder, Institute for Lean Innovation
• Barbara Perry, Founder, Barbara Perry Associates
• BJ McCabe, Founder, Idein Rise Incorporated
• Christian Crews, Director, Futures Strategy, Pitney Bowes Inc
• Ken Akoundi, Ph.D., Head of Portfolio Risk Management, Optima Fund
• Kathie Thomas, Senior Vice President, Fleishman-Hillard
• Debra Kaminski, Strategic Education and Communication Consultant, Marketing and Communications Nationwide Retirement
• Denise La Mere, HR Manager & Corporate Strengths Coach, Best Buy Government and Education
• Linda Yaven, Visual Conversation Designer, California College of the Arts & President, Linda Yaven
• Glenn Grossman, Director VISTA Technology & Services, Ticketmaster
• Charles Prather, President, Bottom Line Innovation
• Gerald Haman, President, SolutionPeople
• Liisa Valikangas, Managing Director and Research, Woodside Institute
• Gerry Katz, Executive Vice President Applied Marketing Science
• Ben Jacobson, Partner, Conifer Research
• Jeff De Cagna, Chief strategist, Principled Innovation, A Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership
• Jean Spence, Executive Vice President, Global Technology & Quality, Kraft FoodsGoogle