June 1, 2009 - Monday
Dr. Todd Siler, internationally recognized author, educator, consultant, and artist to speak on the "future of innovation" with Panelists Jon Otsuki, Paul Bauer, and Sherman Woo, Moderator Mike Cote
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Inspiring Minds to Tackle the Challenges of the Future
Just because the universe is accelerating as it expands in complexity doesn't mean the human race must follow in its footsteps! Do we always need to be racing to infinity? Or can we be truly innovative in pausing to reflect and learn why we're racing after all?
How far into the future do we need "to see," in order to change certain patterns of behavior today that are clearly working against our development and growth as human beings-and, that block the advancement of humanity and civil society? 1 minute? 1 month? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? 1000 years? How does our sense of time and urgency influence the way we prioritize our actions in changing these patterns?
Some years ago, Think Tanks such as the Hudson Institute headed by Dr. Herman Kahn, assessed the prospects for humankind and our collective future. They would run an array of best and worst case scenarios, addressing everything from "the unthinkable"-nuclear annihilation and rebooting life on earth after we decimated it-to the practical invention of a more humane civilization that earnestly valued the primacy of education and lifelong learning.
Given our world of chronic problems and constant conflict, we need more of these daring futuristic organizations to help us best use art-science- technology in improving the state of the world and collaboratively creating a future with a real future!
This presentation taught attendees some proven creativity and communication tools that are core to best practices of innovation. Anyone can use them at any time to envision the future and create what one envisions-taking the necessary actions to thrive in the future.
EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: June 1, 2009 - Monday
TIME: 06:30am-09:00am
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/466/night-with-a-futurist-monday-september-13-2010
LOCATION: MADCAP Theater, 10679 Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CO 80020
DIRECTIONS: Driving Directions
COST: $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free
PHONE: 303-666-4133
TOPIC: Dr. Todd Siler, internationally recognized author, educator, consultant, and artist to speak on the "future of innovation" with Panelists Jon Otsuki, Paul Bauer, and Sherman Woo, Moderator Mike Cote
SPEAKERS: Todd Siler, Mike Cote, Jon M. Otsuki, Paul Bauer, Sherman Woo
SPEAKER: Todd Siler
Internationally recognized visual artist, educator, consultant, and author
Dr. Todd Siler is an internationally recognized visual artist, educator, consultant, and author of Think Like A Genius (Bantam Books) and Breaking the Mind Barrier (Simon & Schuster).
In 1986, Todd Siler became the first [and only] visual artist to be awarded a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Siler co-founded Think Like a Genius, LLC and Psi-Phi Technology Corporation, companies that create products and experiences for realizing human potential. Their playful yet purposeful books, software, public workshops and innovation events aim to empower individuals, teams, groups, and organizations to freely express themselves in generating ideas and breakthroughs, solving problems and visioning plans through collaboration. Since 1994, they have applied their Think Like a Genius® Process and Program (aka The ArtScience® Program) to help learning organizations and businesses, including many Fortune 500 Companies, continually innovate. The company’s new Think Like a Genius® software 2.0 enables people to make dynamic, 5-D symbolic models that act as a “global common language” for enriching communication and fostering understanding. These freeform models serve as visual aids for everyone to show-and-share one’s stories, and “show what’s on our hearts & minds” (www.ThinkLikeAGenius.com).
MODERATOR: Mike Cote
Editor of ColoradoBiz Magazine
Mike Cote is the Editor of ColoradoBiz Magazine. He has spent more than 20 years in the media industry as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Florida and Colorado, and now at ColoradoBiz magazine in the metro Denver area. He has also taught reporting and editing at the University of Colorado, where he earned his master's degree in journalism.
Before joining the team at ColoradoBiz, Mike served as both the City Editor and the Business Editor at the Boulder Daily Camera.
PANELIST: Jon M. Otsuki
CEO of GV Labs
Jon M. Otsuki is the CEO of GV Labs, a business innovation company that leverages Internet-based technologies and business acumen to make companies and organizations better.
Jon Otsuki possesses over 25 years of Information Technology and business experience on both a national and international basis with special emphasis on the ability to understand business market needs and requirements and strategically leverage Information Technology with the business direction. Jon has worked with Fortune 100 and 500 companies’ worldwide in capacities ranging from new business creation to business development to organizational transformation. Jon leverages strong expertise in enhancing and/or creating management practices and behavior at all levels within organizations.
Jon has leveraged his expertise in management consulting to successfully help Fortune 200 and 500 companies more effectively lead and manage successful results of the IT organizations with an emphasis on business value delivered to the overall business. Jon’s strong background in understanding business process workflow has helped companies better understand the partnership between technology and business that is required in order to be an agile and competitive business. For example, Jon served as the interim CEO for a $400M company that was losing more than $1M a month. In a turnaround situation, within six months the company was net positive on a cash flow basis and has posted positive monthly results since.
In the area of new business creation, Jon successfully built a worldwide technology consulting business while at Texas Instruments Software as well as, developed the system integration consulting business for a NEC company on an U.S. wide basis. This included directing the development of the business infrastructure, business processes, sales and marketing approaches, and revenue projections. While at United Airlines, Jon, in his role of leading and directing product engineering, development, and customer service, successfully brought to market a technology based software product. Also during his tenure at United, Jon developed the marketplace for the selling of network services as a product offering.
PANELIST: Paul Bauer
Senior Fellow for the DaVinci Institute andl a Clinical Professor of Information Technologies at the Daniels College of Business
Paul Bauer is a Senior Fellow for the DaVinci Institute as well as a Clinical Professor of Information Technologies at the Daniels College of Business.
Paul Bauer teaches information and network technologies, innovation and social entrepreneurship at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. Prior to joining DU, Paul was the Director of Corporate Learning and IT with Netbeam, Inc., a startup company providing wireless Internet access in Summit County, Colorado. Before Netbeam, Paul held a faculty position with TRA (Telecommunications Research Associates), a training company providing state-of-the-art technology courses to communications professionals. Paul was a Program Director with 3Com Corporation, directing development of the ATM-based data access platform and the development and customer testing of the deployment of a CDMA wireless data system. Prior to joining 3Com, Paul founded his own consulting company and held numerous positions with US West Advanced Technologies, Bell Communications Research and Bell Laboratories. Paul was chairman (1991-92) and a founding board member of the Colorado Advanced Software Institute and served on the boards of the Colorado Software and Internet Association and University Hills Rotary Club. Paul holds a BS in Physics from Saint Louis University and a PhD in solid state physics from the University of Kansas.
PANELIST: Sherman Woo
CTO for GVLabs
Sherman Woo is the CTO for GVLabs, a business innovation company. GV Labs leverages Internet-based technologies and business acumen in order to make companies and organizations better.
Sherman Woo has 30 plus years of experience in developing software. His career has ranged from large mainframe financial systems to mid-range client server decision support tools to medical simulation software on a desktop platform. He has been a research engineer as well as a director of a large development organization. Woo was an early pioneer of advanced office systems, he introduced the first office voice mail system into Pacific Northwest Bell, he pioneered the large scale use of personal computing at U S WEST and he was an early advocate of the use of CD-ROM technology for business information products. Woo was also an early pioneer of the Internet and Internet programming languages and is a recognized expert the domain of the Internet.
Woo was the founder and developer of the U S WEST Global Village. This is one of the first Intranets to be created and remains one of the largest and most sophisticated applications of web technology to business computing and communications. He has been featured in numerous popular journals for this pioneering work, including: Fortune, Computerworld, PCWeek and CIO magazine. He was awarded a Smithsonian Award for the best corporate Intranet. Woo has also been a world-wide speaker at forums on Knowledge Management, corporate communications and business use of Intranets in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Far East.
Woo led the growth of an entrepreneurial group within US WEST from a small core of 17 employees to a large organization of 300 hundred software engineers, analysts, managers and administrators. He has directed the transformation of this organization in attainment of level 2 of the SEI capability maturity model. He has created the environment to enable high performance work teams to flourish and achieve sustained delivery of quality business solutions.
