NEWS
RELEASE
Friday,
August 6, 2004. Denver, Colorado
Top
National Firms Confirm Commitment
to Innovation in Colorado
Industry leaders to share experience and
lessons
Who has the
resources to deliver innovations … and do it year after
year? Who can take innovation to national and global markets …
in the face of ever-tougher competition? Who knows that although
innovation begins with great ideas … it isn’t finished
until customers are served?
The answer:
America’s mid-size and large companies. These companies
have sufficient capitalization and cash flow plus the right leadership,
resources, process abilities, market knowledge, and innovation
culture to make it happen.
Yet even for
these successful companies – like their less successful
fellows – fulfilling the promise of innovation is a relentless
challenge. Innovation demands continual learning, because the
next success will always be more challenging.
The Colorado
Innovation Summit is a forum for learning. Annually, the Summit
brings principals of internationally known companies to Colorado
to share “Lessons from the Real World.”
The 2004 program features extraordinary speakers with powerful
experience, committed to helping others avoid mistakes and make
better decisions in innovation. (See speaker list below.) The
innovations that spurred their learning include:
- Online
distance learning
- Digital
imaging
- Wild
land fire management
- Net-centric
operations
- Biotechnology
- Brain
fingerprinting
- Global
positioning system
- Knowledge
management
The DaVinci
Institute & Market Engineering proudly present
September
23-24 Stonebrook Manor, Thornton 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. $445 before
September 1 Reception on Thursday Group discounts available
Registration
at www.InnovationSummit.com or call 303-666-4133
Market Engineering
accelerates innovation and brand equity with services in strategic
visioning and management of businesses, products, strategies,
and launches.
The DaVinci
Institute is a futurist think tank that produces unique, one-of-a-kind
conferences to stimulate debate and action on a variety of topics.
Media Contacts:
Mary Wilson Callahan, 303-774-0499, Gary Lundquist, 303-840-9929,
mary@silverstreakpartners.com GaryL@Market-Engineering.com
2004 Colorado Innovation Summit
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Companies
Aramco, Ball
Aerospace, The Boeing Company, Brain Fingerprinting Labs, CDM
Optics, CH2M HILL, Dharmacon, Digital Globe, eCollege, First Data,
Hewlett Packard, Knowledge Continuity, Lockheed Martin, MyST Technology
Partners, Tatum Partners, Townsend & Townsend & Crew
Speakers
- Drew Crouch,
VP Strategic Development, Ball Aerospace
- Glen Daigger,
Sr. VP and CTO, CH2M HILL
- Dr. Lawrence
Farwell, Chairman & Chief Scientist, Brain Fingerprinting
Laboratories
- Bill French,
Co-founder, MyST Technology Partners
- Patrick
Gonzales, Senior Staff Engineer, Hewlett Packard Company
- Dave Harden,
Co-founder, Knowledge Continuity
- Kim Hibler,
VP, First Data Resources
- Steve
Jennings, VP Marketing, Digital Globe
- Steve
Jewett, Patent Attorney, Townsend and Townsend and Crew
- Doug Kelsall,
President and COO, eCollege
- Gene A.
Keluche, Chairman and CEO, Native Communities Development Corporation
- Tom Mahony,
Advanced Systems, Ball Aerospace
- William
Marshall, EVP Research and Operations, Dharmacon
- Lorraine
Martin, Vice President and Deputy, Lockheed Martin
- Mike McCracken,
Vice Chairman, Tatum Partners
- R.C. Mercure,
Jr., CEO, CDM Optics
- Michael
Rizzo, Program Director, Navigation Systems, The Boeing Company
- Fred Vail,
Continuing Excellence, Saudi Aramco
-
Politics of Innovation Panel
Moderator: Larry Nelson, President, w3w3 Talk Radio
Tentative Participation: Bob Beauprez, Congressman, State of
Colorado; Mark Udall, Congressman, State of Colorado; Leroy
Williams, Secretary of Technology, State of Colorado
- CTO
SUMMIT
Moderator: TBD
Drew Couch; Glenn Daigger, Bill Marshall, and others TBD
