Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
Sir Ken Robinson

Drawing from his groundbreaking book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, Sir Ken Robinson urges us to rethink basic assumptions about intelligence, achievement, and learning, and he focuses on the vital questions: Why is it essential to promote creativity? Why do so many adults think they’re not creative? Most children are buzzing with ideas. What happens to them as they grow up? Is everyone creative or just a select few? Can creativity be developed? How can new technologies and e-Learning address and improve the way we learn and our ability to think creatively? If so, how? In exploring these questions, Sir Ken argues for radical changes in how we educate learners of all ages to meet the extraordinary challenges of living and working in the 21st century.

Untangling the Future of Technology and Learning Innovations 
Paul Saffo

Events don't so much arrive or unfold, as untangle. This is especially true when it comes to anticipating technological innovations and their impacts because technologies rarely travel in a straight line. Instead, technologies wander, loop back on themselves and, above all, intersect with other technologies, triggering the cross-impacts that yield the innovations that continue to arrive and change our world. Paul Saffo will explore how the notion of learning changes because of increasing global mobility and will forecast implications of the next ten years of web and digital technology on e-Learning. Don't miss this dynamic presentation as Paul Saffo issues a global call to action: e-Learning is central to humankind solving its biggest problems!

The Medici Leader: Leading the New Age of Learning
Frans Johansson

What do goat milk, spiders, and fishing lines have in common? Music records and airlines? Ant behavior and telecomm routing? Most of us would assume nothing. But out of these seemingly random combinations have come radical innovations that have created whole new fields. The Medici Effect refers to the proliferation of new ideas and creativity enabled by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy. In this presentation, Frans Johansson will take us on a fascinating journey to the Intersection: a place where ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary new innovation. In order to out-innovate the competition today's leaders must search for new ideas where others don't, they must be able to work with all kinds of people, and they must be prepared to think differently about risks and failures in order to succeed. See how companies become global leaders and how leaders find new opportunities and create new groundbreaking products, services, and strategies.