Revolutionary Ideas

Friday, June 22, 2012
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston

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Revolutionary Ideas

2012 Speakers

  • George Fifield George Fifield Urban Screens
    A new kind of public art, whether we like it or not
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  • Barbara Lynch Barbara Lynch Back to the Basics
    A chef shares how basic skills like cooking can educate and ...
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  • Judy Willett Judy Willett It Takes Villages
    The rock'n’roll generation changes the tune of aging
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  • Nick Leschly Nick Leschly Gene Therapy: The Time Is Now
    Delivering corrective genes into a patient's own diseased ce...
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  • Kent Larson Kent Larson Urban Dwellings for a Crowded Planet
    Fundamentally new strategies for creating and connecting sma...
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  • Amos G. Winter, V, Ph.D. Amos G. Winter, V, Ph.D. The Leveraged Freedom Chair
    Using science, engineering, and stakeholder-driven design to...
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  • Laura Winig Laura Winig From Offender to Entrepreneur
    Unlikely entrepreneurs-in-training who are determined to cre...
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  • Boston Children's Chorus Boston Children's Chorus Social Change Through Music

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  • O'Neill, O'Neill O'Neill, O'Neill Community-Powered Disaster Recovery
    How two sisters became accidental entrepreneurs with a passi...
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  • Don MacDonald Don MacDonald Learning to Love Machiavelli
    Unexpected insights from one of history's most misunderstood...
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  • Marlon Carey Marlon Carey Inphynit Ideas
    How performance poetry vents emotion, challenges language, d...
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  • Jodi Beggs Jodi Beggs Context is King
    We're biased by what we expect
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  • Liberty, Spak Liberty, Spak Tales from the Cardboard Fun Lab
    What the board game renaissance is teaching us about the sci...
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  • Anthony Trecek-King Anthony Trecek-King A Conductor's Journey
    An unexpected move and how it changed a conductor, a chorus,...
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  • Timothy Prestero Timothy Prestero Design That Matters
    Helping social entrepreneurs in developing countries get the...
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  • Harry Meade Harry Meade Pharming
    Innovation at the intersection of pharmacology and farming w...
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  • Franny Choi Franny Choi POP!goesKOREA!

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  • Andrew McAfee Andrew McAfee Race Against the Machine
    A global workforce where AI bots coexist and compete with wh...
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  • Simone Beaubien Simone Beaubien The Death of Art
    Revival, Reinvention, and the Poetry Slam
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  • Clayton Christensen Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life?
    Lessons from one of the world's iconic and influential busin...
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  • Ashifi Gogo Ashifi Gogo Combatting the Counterfeit Drug Trade
    How cell phones, community, governments and pharma all conne...
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  • David Goodtree David Goodtree The Other Side of Water
    A refreshing perspective on the economics of a $500 billion ...
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