BIF-3 is one month away-save 20% (or more)
No matter where you live, there’s a built-in bias against homegrown events, a widespread assumption that they can’t be world-class. If you’ve never been to any of the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF events (BIF-1, BIF-2, and now BIF-3), you might be tempted to give into this bias, but that would be a big mistake. Last year, I attended BIF-2 under a BIF N-GEN scholarship, so it didn’t cost me to attend. My blog coverage of the event last year earned me a spot as a member of this year’s blog-jam. But it would have been well worth the cost to me. This is an innovative event with top-notch speakers, and co-hosted by a Rhode Islander (Walt Mossberg) who has become a giant in technology through his Personal Technology column in the Wall Street Journal and the D: All Things Digital conference.
BIF-3 has an amazing lineup of speakers; here’s a list of a few:
BIF -3 will be hosted by Wall Street Journal Columnist Walt Mossberg and Mavericks at Work author Bill Taylor. The duo will guide participants through a program that includes Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, UnderSecretary of Homeland Security Jay Cohen, Ghost Map author and co-creator of outside.in Steven Johnson, 37signals founder and CEO Jason Fried, Providence Police Chief Colonel Dean Esserman, architect Chris Benedict, Studiocom chief creative officer Juan Fernando Santos, information architect Richard Saul Wurman, BzzAgent founder and CEO Dave Balter, IBM VP of Innovation Irving Wladawsky-Berger, author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, Made to Stick author Dan Heath, president of Stanley Bostitch Denise Nemchev, author and founder of The Hybrid Vigor Institute Denise Caruso, founder of the gethuman project Paul English, Linear Air president and CEO William Herp, author and associate professor UC-Davis Graduate School of Management Andrew Hargadon, Icosystem CEO and Chief Scientific Officer Eric Bonabeau, TopCoder founder and chairman Jack Hughes, founder of Zipcar and GoLoco Robin Chase, Director of the MIT Agelab Joe Coughlin, and former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC Euan Semple.
At the admission price of $1,000 this is a very good deal, especially compared to other events around the world. And if you’re local, it’s even cheaper because you’re not paying for air fare to the San Francisco Bay Area or a hotel room (and I’ve heard a lot of folks in the northeast complain there are no good conferences here!). But it can get even cheaper. Here are two ways:
- When you register, mention that I sent you, and you can get in for $800.
- If you’re a Providence Geek, check out the even better offer (half price, but limited to five takers) over at the Providence Geeks weblog.