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The IEEE-USA DC Area Innovation Forum

♦♦ 1.5 CEUs ♦♦

6-8 November 2007
Marriott Fairview Park
Falls Church, VA

Network with experienced innovators and your peers in a unique and interactive educational event!

What is Innovation? How do you innovate? What environment and tools do you need to innovate? How can you drive innovation in your team and organization?

WHAT You Will Learn

Join the IEEE-USA Innovation Institute faculty and a select group of your peers for a 1½ day intensive seminar. We’ll provide you with unique training in innovation, so that you can enhance both your career and your organization.

The IEEE-USA Innovation Forum will provide face-to-face training for mid-level managers, current and future leaders from industry, academia, and government. Top innovation leaders with extensive first-hand experience will lead you through this interactive and educational experience. You will learn to innovate in a team-setting and work through real case studies. Group discussions and exercises will focus on the following topics:

• Leadership and Culture’s Impact on Innovation
• Large Versus Small Organizations as Foundations for Innovation
• The Innovation Process and How to Leverage Your Style to Promote Innovation
• Capitalizing on New Technologies and Processes

Discover how leadership, corporate culture, and the business environment impact this process. Learn how technical professionals can initiate and drive innovation. Explore new innovation tools and create new professional networks that will help you lead and inspire innovation within your company. Experience and practice using innovation tools and insights with your peers as a team member and leader.

After the Forum, you will become a member of the IEEE-USA Innovation Institute’s online innovation community, which will give you access to ongoing, real-time collaboration, discussions, networking and mentoring.

Preliminary Agenda

> DC Forum Preliminary Agenda (PDF)

Forum Faculty

All dynamic technical professionals, with more than a century of combined innovation experience, the Forum faculty are committed to fostering innovation in others:

Steve Walker > read bio	Alain Rostain > read bio	Mauro Togneri > read bio	Mike Austin > read bio

Keynote Speaker

Howard Lieberman is the founder of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute > read bio

Cost

$795 IEEE Member
$950 Nonmember

Forum Registration Fee includes: Opening night reception and dinner; daily breakfast, lunch and coffee break; and free access for one year to the IEEE-USA Innovation Institute’s online community and members-only section of innovation clearinghouse. Group discounts negotiable. A limited number of scholarships are available.

Register Today

> IEEE Member Registration

> Non-Member Registration

> Speaker Registration

> Group Registration

> Scholarship Registration

> Update/Change Your Registration Information - (Event Code is MPE)  This is needed to enter into this site along with the Attendee Reference Number that is on their emailed confirmation form.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Marriott Fairview Park
Falls Church, VA
Phone:  1-703-849-9400
Fax:  1-703-849-8692

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Contact Information

Scott Grayson, Program Manager, IEEE-USA Innovation Institute at s.grayson@ieee.org or +1 202 530 8337