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

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

Pre-Conference Institutes

Monday, March 20:

2 day de Bono Creativity Course (1st of 2 days) led by Karen Franta Love (Vice President, The de Bono Group, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri)

Tuesday, March 21:

2 day de Bono Creativity Course (2nd of 2 days) led by Karen Franta Love (Vice President, The de Bono Group, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri)

Creative Use of Free Technology led by Tim Deagan and Don Shafer (Chief Technology Officer, Athens Group, Austin, Texas)

Introduction to TRIZ led by Jack Hipple (Principal, Innovation-TRIZ, Tampa, Florida)

Keynotes and Plenary Sessions

Wed, March 22 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 Schoeman Dow, Dorothy Sisk, Tara Grey Coste, David Tanner

Wed, March 22 Morning Plenary - A Formula for Sustainable Global Prosperity led by David Pearce Snyder (Independent Consulting Futurist) - with support from the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society

Wed, March 22 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

Wed, March 22 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

Wed, March 22 Evening Program - ET Light Enlarging the Circle of Creativity to Include the Doctor Whos led by Carol McCormick (Storyteller, Trainer, Public Speaker and Ritualist, SpiritMind Institute, Plymouth, Minnesota)

Thurs, March 23 Breakfast Plenary - The Creative Brain led by Ann Herrmann-Nehdi (CEO, Herrmann Brain Dominance Institute, Lake Lure, North Carolina)

Thurs, March 23 Luncheon Plenary - Creative Marketing & Fundraising: The Lance Armstrong Foundation (potential keynote) led by Betty Otter Nickerson (COO, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas) & Mitchel Stoller (CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas)

Thurs, March 23 Afternoon Plenary - Thinking Like An Imagineer: The Disney Experience led by Peggy Van Pelt (Walt Disney Imagineering, Los Angeles, CA)

Thurs, March 23 Evening Program - Finding Magic in the Mundane led by Mary Gordon Spence (Owner, Ask Mary Gordon, Austin, Texas)

Fri, March 24 Breakfast Plenary - Discovering the Meaning Difference: Creativity and Responsibility led by Alex N. Pattakos (Director, Center for Personal Meaning, Sante Fe, New Mexico)

Fri, March 24 Luncheon Plenary - Whither the Creativity Clan: Challenges for Global Solidarity led by Kirpal Singh (Professor, School of Economics & Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Fri, March 24 Afternoon Plenary - Corporate Creativity led by Sam Stern (Dean, School of Education, Oregon State University, Portland, OR)

Sat, March 25 Breakfast Plenary - Creativity is Not Being Afraid to Fail: The 3M Experience led by Andrew Ouderkirk (3M Corporate Scientist, 3M, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Sat, March 25 Closing Conference Luncheon Plenary - North Pole Tenderfoot led by Doug Hall (Founder and CEO, Eureka Ranch, Cincinnati, Ohio)

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