March 22 - 25, 2006
with Pre-Conference Institutes
March 20 - 21, 2006
at Hilton Austin Airport in Austin, TX

Conference Program To Date
Conference Presenters 'Biographical Narratives and Contact Info
Visual Overview of Conference Program

Monday & Tuesday, March 20 -21: Pre-Conference Institutes
Keynotes & Plenary Sessions
Wednesday, March 22
Thursday, March 23
Friday, March 24
Saturday, March 25

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Opening Breakfast Plenary - Creativity: A Perspective through Retrospective panel moderated by Darlene Boyd (Director of University of California Gifted Students Academy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California), current ACA President and including ACA past presidents Marilyn Shoeman Dow, Dorothy Sisk, Tara Grey Coste, David Tanner

Morning Plenary - A Formula for Sustainable Global Prosperity led by David Pearce Synder (Independent Consulting Futurist)

Giraffe Heroes Spotlight #1 by Ann Medlock (Founder/ Creative Director, Giraffe Heroes Project, Langley Washington)

Using Technology Creatively for Education by David Schwartz (President/ CEO. Q-link, Inc., Conshocken, Pennsylania)

From Concept to Cash: Monetizing Your Creative Idea by Leslie Martinich (President, Competitive Focus,. Austin, Texas) & David Angelow (Executive Director, Business Foundations LLC , Austin, Texas)

The “How” of Communication, Compassionate Communications led by Pat Siebert (Practitioner, Feldenkrais Center of Austin, Texas)

Understanding and Using the Aesthetic (Creative) Potential in all Forms of Communication led by Kim Smith ( Austin, Texas)

MASTER CLASS with David Pearce Synder (Independent Consulting Futurist)

Luncheon Plenary - Enabling Collaborative Creativity at Work led by Michael Beyerlein (Director of the Center for Collaborative Organizations, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas) - Thursday, March 23 Luncheon Plenary

Accelerated Learning: A Model for Creative Learning & Teaching by Joyce Langnegger (Fielding Graduate University, Houston, Texas)

Applying the Power of Story to Strategic and Cultural Communications led by Gerald Lantz (Founder/ President, Stories That Work, Thornton, Pennsylvania)

Creativity Within Structure: Case Study of Technical Collaboration for the Military by Laura Faulkner (Research Associate/Principal Investigator, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)

Trends in Collaborative Creativity & Innovation. A Panel led by Paul Schumann (President, Glocal Vantage, Inc., Austin, Texas) and including Renee Callahan, Ellen Domb, Mark Fox, Jeff De Cagna and Jon Lebkowsky

Afternoon Plenary - Annual Meeting and Recognition of Creativity Luminaries by the American Creativity Association led by Darlene Boyd, ACA President and Barry Silverberg, ACA Executive Director

Evening Program - ET Light Enlarging the Circle of Creativity to Include the Doctor Whos led by Carol McCormick (Storyteller, Trainer, Public Speaker and Ritualisr, SpiritMind Institute, Plymouth, Minnesota)

Networking & Collegial Sharing Opportunities

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