9AM-5PM+5:30PM Networking/Dinner on Thursday, April 14, 2011 @ Zucca Bar & Pizzeria
9AM-5PM+5:30PM Networking/Dinner on Friday, April 15, 2011 @ Papi’s Cuban & Carribean Grill
9AM-1PM on Saturday, April 16, 2011 with Networking Lunch @ Los Reyes Mexican Restaurant
(Registration opens at 8AM each day. Lunches are on your own at nearby area restaurants from 12-1:30.)
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14 - Thurs AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 400 (KEYNOTE 1/4)
THE LEADERSHIP DANCE
Who is a leader? What is your leadership style? How is leadership communicated, exerted and recognized? In this session we will use the powerful metaphor of creative movement to explore and build our understanding of the art of leadership.
Creative Movement activities and discussion will provide a laboratory for learning about leadership. Participants will experience varied movement structures within which the role of leader is exerted and transferred then will be encouraged to make connections to leadership within other realms of endeavor.
We will examine the importance of rhythm, presence and listening as tools of connection and communication which yield effective leadership.
Information will be given directing participants to published literature and other sources of further learning on this topic.Anthony Hyatt
14 - Thurs AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 461 MENTAL ILLNESS AND CREATIVITY
This session is divided in to two parts. The first part explores the links between mental illness and creativity on a neurological level as well as psychologically. The second portion uses the speaker's personal experience offering tips to prepare the mind to harness creativity within a mental illness. As well as, providing exercises and examples of exploring creativity in different moods.Mia Broder
14 - Thurs AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 182 WRITING AS A CATALYST FOR CREATIVITY
Each of us is the author of our own creative spirit. A free mind is the first step towards fostering growth of your personal creativity. Visualize yourself as a writer, change or enhance your perspective on journaling; or simply learn some new techniques to jump start your own creative thought processes through writing. This hands-on, interactive workshop will boost your confidence in your own writing ability, and show you easy-to-use writing tips to enhance your own creative thinking.
Writing is the simple act of recording your thoughts. For some, writing is as natural as falling to sleep when we are tired or taking in a breath of fresh air on a crisp, autumn morning. Putting pen to paper – or keyboard to monitor – is more difficult for some people. We agonize over what to write or how to express our thoughts and feelings. We believe skilled authors have a secret never to be revealed to us. So, we do not write.
You do not need to have a published work for your writings to be meaningful. In fact, your recordings can remain yours alone to read. Of course, you may choose to share your missives with the world.
Writing represents one expression of your creativity. In the same manner, writing can serve as a catalyst to opening your creative channels.Cynthia Rolfe
14 - Thurs AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 462 LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD! - ENHANCING CREATIVITY THROUGH LAUGHTER AND PLAYFULNESS
If you can use a good belly laugh (and who couldn't??), come play with us. Laughter has tremendous benefits - physical, mental, and emotional. The philosophy of Laughter Yoga is to laugh for no reason to create joy, childlike playfulness, wellness, and world peace. Research has shown that one of the many benefits of laughter is enhancing creativity.
This is a fun-filled participatory and experiential session in which participants will experience unbridled joy; recapture the bliss, sense of wonder, and playfulness they experienced naturally when they were children; and experience the many healing benefits of laughter. The session includes movement, light stretching, gentle breathing, and, of course, lots of laughter, and ends with a laughter meditation where participants as a group laugh uncontrollably.
Clinical research has shown that laughter lowers stress and negative thoughts and feelings, enhances happiness, bonding, tolerance, forgiveness, creativity, and much more!
B.Y.O.S. "Bring Your Own Smile" and Your Inner Child!! And be prepared to have FUN!!!! Debbie Ellison
14 - Thurs AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 464 INTEGRATING EMAIL MARKETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
The session will include some of the strategies and best practices used to get the most out of your email marketing and social media activities. This is a program about how to use email marketing to benefit your business, build relationships and integrate social media into your marketing mix. We will talk about what email marketing and social media marketing really is, how to incorporate it into your business life without losing productivity and look at how other businesses are using these low-cost tools to gain visibility, develop relationships and drive sales and response.Pamela Adams
14 - Thurs AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 460 EMBODIED CREATIVITY AWAKENED
This playful, highly-experiential workshop will incrementally move us to awaken and express the creativity that lives in our bodies (whether we're aware of it or not, it's there!). We discover what's possible when we tap into what's alive within us. We can slow down, get still and quiet, become conscious of our breath and our inner rhythms and then move from a place of true authenticity. It's about coming home to the place in ourselves that is our true essence a place of peace, infinite creativity, the wholeness we feel when we fully claim our feminine and masculine power and the joyful aliveness that comes with heart-felt connection with others. Includes improvisational movement, sound, stillness and storytelling in an explorative, fun and interactive way. Come prepared to be moved! William & Quiana Grace Frost
14 - Thurs PM
(01:30 PM)ROOM 400 (KEYNOTE 2/4)
THE ART OF INNOVATION: INTEGRATING CREATIVITY INTO ORGANIZATIONS
Innovation brings substantial value to organizations - in fact, sustainable innovation may be the only way for an organization to survive in these challenging times. Fortunately it is possible for uncreative organizations to become creative and creative ones to become more so.
So, how do you make innovation part of an organization’s DNA?
In this entertaining keynote presentation, Dimis Michaelides, business speaker, author and magician, will show you how this might be done. He will argue that an innovative organization is an intelligent synthesis of the Sources of efficient creativity and the appropriate organizational Structure and Culture. And so organizations wishing to truly build a capacity for sustainable innovation must work on a number of different levels.
With a touch of professional magic and using analogies from ancient Egypt, Aristophanes, contemporary art and contemporary corporate references Dimis will present the twelve elements or innovation-drivers required to make innovation thrive in any organization: Talent, Energy, Method, Individual, Team, Target, System, Ideas, Engagement, Freedom, Humor, Risk.
The presentation is themed around THE ART OF INNOVATION - Integrating Creativity in Organizations, a business-art book written by Dimis Michaelides.Dimis Michaelides
14 - Thurs PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 460 VISUAL THINKING AND RECORDING
Can you hold a pencil, pen, crayon, or a piece of chalk? Then you can draw. Can you imagine things from your past, present or future? Then you can draw and you can think visually.
This session will introduce you to various visual thinking techniques for creating, capturing, facilitating ideas: your own, a group's, or from an entire meeting.
Come realise the artist within and learn how draw even more.
Robert Alan Black
14 - Thurs PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 182 TAPPING INTO THE WISDOM OF CROWDS
In this session, you will learn about the science behind why predicting future outcomes, like the success of new product innovations, is so difficult for individuals yet so easy for crowds. Mr. Fusco will show how Infosurv has developed an innovative methodology that leverages the power of prediction markets to harness this so-called "wisdom of the crowds" to predict new product concept success as accurately as traditional methodologies and many times faster. Mr. Fusco will also discuss how this methodology can be used to optimize the further development of new product concepts.Carl Fusco
14 - Thurs PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 462 INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND POWER: DISPUTE RESOLUTION FOR POSITIVE OUTCOMES
How do you resolve conflict in your family, life or at work? Conflict is often approached from an adversarial perspective when it should be looked at as an opportunity to build relationships, work on problems not demands, and to take responsibility for the outcome derived.
We will: 1) talk about the difference between interests, rights and power, and how they impact our ability to negotiate a successful outcome (through discussion and examples); 2) introduce and work with a process for working through a conflicted situation (discussion and skill practice); and 3) discuss/demonstrate/skill practice how/where Creative Problem Solving can move us towards successful resolution.Michael McDermott
14 - Thurs PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 464 EMPOWER! 15 WAYS TO ENHANCE CREATIVE TEAM PERFORMANCE
Subtle, hard-to-spot, and hard-to-solve behavioral issues among even motivated team members can cause a brilliant creative session to go awry, stay repressed and safe, or not achieve breakthrough. Such sticky issues may include solving the wrong challenge and opportunity, insufficient data collection, weak team training, cultural blocks, problematic team composition, and hidden agendas; once identified, they can be addressed at planning stages or rerouted by the facilitator and client spokesperson during eureka moments of the session. Using powerpoint and interactive exercises, the workshop will help business managers, researchers, facilitators, and educators identify, explore, and solve the 15 most common problems and behavioral issues that invariably arise among teams and guest participants during major off-sites and intense brainstorming sessions. It will be illustrated by lessons learned in real case histories and powerful how-to tactics. The audience will have an opportunity to prioritize and work on their own team issues and solve them together using creative group dynamic processes.
Ava Lindberg
14 - Thurs PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 461 A TYPOLOGY OF AHA'S:
TAPPING INTO ALL THE SOURCES OF CREATIVITY
Facilitators of deliberate creativity create and build up inventories of tools that manipulate the deliberate, concious, verbal behavior of those seeking better insights and alternatives. However, reflecting on creativity success stories makes it obvious that many of the greatest examples of invention, innovation, and scientific discovery fall outside these boundaries. A typology of these different creative acts makes it possible to guide creators to access ideas in more effective ways. This session will guide discussion and demonstrate methods for accessing these neglected sources.
Janet Finley
15 - Fri AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 400 (KEYNOTE 3/4)
INNOVATION AT SAP
Share SAP's definition of innovation, some of the success we've enjoyed and our continued aspirations.Sumith Kumar
15 - Fri AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 461 MT. 10 - CHOOSING CLARITY AND DIRECTION
Using the metaphor of a mountain climb, we initiate an exploration of self and seek to climb higher to go deeper. Never climbed a mountain? Not to worry. Mt. 10 is a terraced experience of introspection, discovery and acceptance.
This is your opportunity to walk a path that leads to practical wisdom. We will tap inner knowing to discern questions that confront us. We will seek answers from our own wisdom. And, we will find the courage to trust and celebrate both our journey and our return. Tricia Pearce
15 - Fri AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 182 ENHANCING INNOVATION LEADERSHIP:
BEYOND SOLO CREATIVITY
Innovation tends to be a multi-participant process, whether they merely interact on sub-elements or become a fully aware co-creative process. This session addresses the issues which emerge as one moves from improving the creativity of individuals and small teams to creating cohesive collaboration among individuals and organizations with widely diverse knowledge and goals.
Christopher Barlow
15 - Fri AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 462 PRESERVING HERITAGE IN A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Preserving Heritage in a Technological Society: Children Tutoring Senior Citizens in Computer and Internet Skills and taught by their Older Students a Lesson in History.
The paper describes and discusses my "brain child" program which I Initiated and implemented in hundreds of schools in Israel, from 1998-2005.In this program, school children ages 9-16 tutor senior citizens at Computer and internet skills, and the seniors in return teach the youngsters a chapter from their personal history: together they scan albums, documents, search the Internet, browse libraries, and write a digital book based on the senior's history. The program makes use of the fact that children nowadays master internet and computer skills better than adults, as a lever for meaningful meetings between children and senior citizens. These meetings provide the seniors with a new tool for communication and give them a new meaning in a prolonged life and at the same time help the children in debunking prejudices and unfounded myths; assist them in becoming more tolerant and respectful of the other; prepare them to live in a multi culture (of the young and the old) world and enrich their knowledge and experiences.Edna Aphek
15 - Fri AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 464 TRANSFORMING AND PERFORMING -CREATING LASTING CHANGE
This session will be a series of interactive modules addressing current performance issues facing business, industry and government today. How to increase employee engagement, satisfaction, accountability and motivation through effective leadership will be demonstrated through the exercises.
Come prepared to participate, learn, contribute and leave with usable tools that can have immediate effect on your organization be it a size of 1 or 100,000.Jack Wolf, PhD, CPT
15 - Fri AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 460 STEP INTO YOUR CQ (CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE) TO BE UNFORGETTABLE
Each of us has innate gifts, that when accessed and applied consciously in our lives, give us the opportunity to design a life that is more joyful, a deeper expression of our talents, and translated with greater ease into our businesses for maximum return. This fun and engaging session will illustrate that your personality is power! There is no way to duplicate WHO you are, and it's time we stop fitting in, and embrace standing out. Standing out and stepping into our true selves leads to greater enjoyment, the ability to be of greater contribution to others, and to earn a better income if that's what you choose. This is how successful people and companies leave any thought of competitors in the dust. Your STYLE + Your PERSONALITY = Your POWER to Be Unforgettable.Judy Winslow
15 - Fri PM
(1:30 PM)ROOM 400 (KEYNOTE 4/4) DESIGN PROCESS AND INNOVATION: EVOLVING METHODS TO HELP US RE-ENVISION OUR WORLD
Advances in technology over the past ten years have had a significant impact on our lives that in turn has altered our understanding and perception of the world around us. But have we really fully leveraged the potential benefits of these new technologies? This well-illustrated talk will provide an overview of the changes in the field of design that have sparked the development of a rapidly evolving set of design methods that help us more effectively focus our creative effort on those artifacts and experiences that are more meaningful for the intended audience. Jim Budd
15 - Fri PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 182 MAKE YOUR IDEAS HAPPEN! HOW TO CONQUER OBSTACLES
Do you have a great idea for a new business, product, or important project?
Don't waste another day. Join us for this training seminar to help you make your idea happen now.
We've presented this session as ""Idea to Market"" at various conferences to rave reviews.
Since then, we've super-charged and refined the seminar, and for Atlanta Creativity Exchange 2011, we have exciting new material to present!
At "Make Your Ideas Happen!", you'll learn a practical set of actions you can follow right now to unlock what's stopping you, launch your idea and improve your chances for success. You'll experience a fast-moving hands on program, combining interactive activities and business speakers who have done it themselves and are dedicated to teaching you.
What makes this training different than the typical conference: this is not a session where you passively listen and maybe glean an insight now and then that you probably never actually do anything with. And it is not a sit-back lecture experience. "Make Your Ideas Happen!" is professional training. The program is an active, hands-on, working session with one goal: to help you achieve extraordinary results for your business.David Eckoff
15 - Fri PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 461 CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN ACTION:
CREATING A NEW PRODUCT
"During this session we will DO creativity by designing a new or innovative product from scratch. Starting with a general framework for the type of product we plan to create, we will work in teams to generate and select ideas, design our product, and construct a simple prototype from basic materials and our own imaginations. This session is activity-based and will provide a fun and playful introduction to the new product creation process."Bethany Davidson
15 - Fri PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 464 HOW INNOVATIVE IS YOUR ORGANIZATION
What makes your company tick? What makes its creative juices flow? How do you integrate innovation in an organization's DNA? And how do you make creativity a way of life? This session is based on a comprehensive model which brings together twelve innovation drivers under three categories: the Sources (Talent, Energy, Method) of efficient creativity, a Structure to support innovation (Individual, Team, Target, System) and a Culture to make creativity a potent force in an organizational context (Ideas, Engagement, Freedom, Humor, Risk). Participants will
- Explore a model to recognize and analyze what drives innovation in an organization
- Assess key innovation drivers in participants' own organizations
- Have a good time!
Participants will assess their organizations through The Art of Innovation Organization Audit and think up actions to strengthen their innovation potential. Dimis Michaelides
15 - Fri PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 462 WAYS FOR CPS TO COME INTO WIDER & MORE ADVANTAGEOUS SERVICE
In part because of the question of "Ownership" of problems, most of the really important problems of humankind have continued to go unsolved, sixty years after the start of the worldwide creativity revolution. Use among results-oriented, narrowly defined commercial interests has a la "survival of the fittest" given us pretty good methods, but the really key problems continue untouched. ("End of the world would be bad for business.") There are at least two apparent solutions to this meta-problem and there may be more. This session will search for more and better solutions and compare among them for strategies which may be advantageous to us all. Win Wenger
15 - Fri PM
(3:30 PM)ROOM 460 MOTIVATING AUDIENCES: ENERGIZERS, ICEBREAKERS, AND ACTIVITIES FOR TEAM-BUILDING, CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND LAUGHTER
Have you ever wished you had an activity that would help make an important point or help your group gel as a team? Do you enjoy seeing your audience respond positively to the points you make in a presentation? Do wish you could enjoy and be comfortable speaking to a variety of groups? If you answered “yes†to any of these questions, this interactive workshop may be for you.
Participants will:
- describe in a minimum of ten brief training exercises for promoting motivation, creativity, team building, communication and humour
- describe a minimum of five guidelines to follow when conducting interactive exercises with groups
- describe the importance of debriefing all activities including three or more principles for leading a debriefing session
- identify one or more magic tricks that could be performed for an audience and principles for performing magic
- identify strategies for applying the activities in ones' own work and/or personal environments
- have funBruce Baum & Eileen Doyle
16 - Sat AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 460 THE MEASUREMENT HOL GRAIL: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONVERSATIONS AFFECT BRAND SALES AND PERFORMANCE
In 30 years of experience in developing econometric models to measure marketing's impact on businesses, I am always searching for new metrics that will expand our understanding of how the market-place affects business performance. Recently, we have come across a new method for measuring ""consumer engagement"" on social networks and have applied this to understanding how social media affects business performance at one of our retail clients. Based on rules of linguistics, a supplier partner, Linguistic Insights, has developed a data mining tool for analyzing and scoring text based social network conversations from linguistic rules for measuring and scoring written conversations according to both "personalization" and "emotional content". In applying this derived metric as a predictor variable to our retailer client's sales, we have succeeded in not only measuring the impact of over 1.9 million brand conversations across Twitter, Facebook and a host of blogs/micro-blogs, but we are specifically able to differentiate the impact of positive versus negative conversations. The result of this analysis raises interesting insights into the question of whether brands have more to gain from positive conversations or fear from negative feedback conversations on social networks?Michael Wolfe
16 - Sat AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 461 GROUP ACTUALIZATION: ACTUALIZING A TEAM'S CREATIVE POTENTIAL
Leadership and facilitation attempt to help individuals and groups reach their full potential. Coming from differing backgrounds, each group member requires different nurturing and a different environment to contribute to group success. To increase our understanding of facilitation, we will use the garden as an analogy to organize our experiences facilitating groups and we will explore various classic theories and concepts of group behavior and leadershipJanet Finley
16 - Sat AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 462 CREATIVITY & THE EMPTY MIND
Awareness, from the perspective of the neutral observer, is a powerful starting place for creativity. In this workshop we will work with an indoor canvas labyrinth and other consciousness-cultivating tools for clearing out the mind's chatter, making way for heightened awareness and for creativity to flow through your being. We will use a variety of processes to help develop: greater awareness of our senses; the creative inspiration that comes with greater noticing of the infinitely diverse messages available to us; and the skillfulness to read into their creative meanings. These tools will be effective at home, in school or at work.William & Quiana Grace Frost
16 - Sat AM
(09:00 AM)ROOM 464 VALUE ENGINEERING: BEYOND CPS TO CROSS FUNCTIONAL TECHNICAL COST RELATED CREATIVITY
The classic method of Value Engineering co-evolved with CPS to handle more complicated and more conflicted problems, especially in cost oriented situations. This session will enable those familiar with CPS to extend the reach of their facilitation to more challenging team problems and goalsChristopher Barlow
16 - Sat AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 460 STORYTELLING TO GENERATE CREATIVE IDEAS
Ever sat on your grandfather, grandmother, father, mother's knee and listened to a story? Ever told you children or grandchildren a story? Then you have the beginning skills to using stories and storytelling to:
1. generate ideas
2. solve problems
3. communicate
This session will be highly interactive from individuals to small groups to the entire group who attend
You will learn how to create stories to expand you creative thinking skills toolbox while having a lot of fun.Robert Alan Black
16 - Sat AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 464 POWERFUL ENVIRONMENTS-POWERFUL LEARNING
This session will focus on Dr Wolf's successful programs in Maryland, Virginia, Texas and Florida where teachers learn the latest techniques for effecive teaching and increased attention and accountability from the students. The session will be a tools/module based and highly interactive so as to maximize participant understanding and application.Jack Wolf, PhD, CPT
16 - Sat AM
(10:30 AM)ROOM 462 INCENTIVES AS A CPS TECHNIQUE
The recent recession brought into public discussion and consciousness various specific incentives proposed as solutions to various specific problems and issues, but no coherent, self-consistent overview of such solutions has emerged in public discussions. We shall entertain one here, and brain-pick one-another in an effort to improve upon it or to find a better one. A systematic understanding of the nature, care and feeding of incentives might even serve as solution to thousands of specific major problems. This session is facilitated by the author of Incentives As A Preferred Instrument of Corporate and Public Policy.
Win Wenger