2013 meet the innovators forum

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Reco gnition
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2013 MEET THE
INNOVATORS FORUM
ScheduleS
8:20am - 8:30am
Welcome/Opening Remarks & Program Overview
John Tolva, Chief Technology Officer, City of Chicago
Sheree Speakman, Founder and CEO of CIE Learning – Program Facilitator
8:30am - 9:15am“The Future of Media/Journalism”
Panel Discussion
Jim Kirk, Senior Vice President & Editor in Chief, Sun Times Media – Moderator
Dexter Cole, Vice President of Programming, Science Channel
Kristian Hammond, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Narrative Science
Tim Pool, American Journalist and Founder, TimCast
9:15am - 9:35am
“The Right Stuff: How to Succeed at Innovation”
Chris Casey, President, Nielsen BASES® and Nielsen Consumer Research
9:35am - 9:45am
“Caterpillar 336E H Hybrid Excavator –
Customers, Diversity Drives Innovation”
Ken Gray, Global Product Manager, Large Hydraulic Excavators, Caterpillar, Inc.
9:45am - 10:00am“Life is Rad. Make it Matter”
Katherine von Jan, Founder and CEO, RadMatter
Marshall Buxton, Product Manager, RadMatter
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:15am Ideation Sessions – Roundtable Innovation
Challenge (see page 17)
Jason Kovac, Ph.D., Executive Director, Academic Initiatives, and
Mindy Manes, Innovation Strategist, Johnson County Community College
(NOTE: This option is limited to 50 participants; subject to advance sign-up)
10:30am - 10:50am “Innovation as a Corporate Competency:
Bridging Department Silos to Bring Ideas
from Mind to Market”
Doug Stone, Vice President of Innovation, Maddock Douglas
10:50am - 11:05am “Safe Collaborative Industrial Robots”
Rodney Brooks, Ph.D., Founder, Chairman & CTO, Rethink Robotics
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11:15am – 12:00pm
Paul E. Jacobs, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO, Qualcomm
2013 Edison Achievement Award Winner
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch – Sponsored by McAndrews Held & Malloy
“The Future of Individualizing Medicine”
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Panel Discussion
Bruce Japsen, Columnist/Blogger, Forbes – Moderator
Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Director, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Hokan Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Leroy E. Hood, M.D., Ph.D., Founder & President, Institute for Systems Biology
H. Michael Keyoung, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Director, Burrill and Company
Scott P. McBride, Shareholder, McAndrews Held & Malloy
2:30pm – 2:40pm
“Personalized Cell Health: Your Health
Equals Your Self Health”
Vincent Giampapa, M.D., Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder, Cell Health Institute
2:40pm – 2:50pm
Skin Cancer Detection in Half a Second
Thomas Braun, President & CEO, Verisante Technology, Inc.
2:50pm – 3:00pm
Reimagining Waste
John Bradburn, Manager of Waste-Reduction Efforts, General Motors
3:00pm – 3:20pm
Break
“Social Innovation: A New Framework
3:20pm – 4:30pm
for Innovators to Create Solutions with
Sustainable Impact” Panel Discussion
Sandra Bates, President and CEO, The Innovation Partners – Moderator
Jamin Brazil, Co-CEO, Decipher, Inc.
Dr. Graeme MacKenzie D.Phil., Director of Industry Affairs, Adlens
Walter B. Herbst, Director/Professor, McCormick School of Engineering,
Northwestern University
James Robinson, Director, Strategy, Evaluation & Research, Rotary International
Geof Rochester, Chief Marketing Officer, The Nature Conservancy
4:30pm
Adjournment
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Meet the presenters
Pro gram Facilitator
Sheree Speakman
Founder & CEO of CIE Learning
Sheree Speakman, Founder and CEO of CIE Learning, works on public and private education projects that support the common goals of social justice and deeper learning. CIE
Learning is focused on developing new learning pathways for neighborhoods and communities. Ms. Speakman was formerly the Evaluation Director of the Walton Family Foundation working with the K-12 Education Reform, Environment, and Home Region program teams and grantees
on performance analysis. She also served as the chief operating officer for British Schools of America, and
was president of Fox River Learning, a consulting organization specializing in systems that originated and
analyzed student performance and school finance records. Ms. Speakman received an AB from Albion College in Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She serves on the Rossier Board of Councilors
at the University of Southern California and on the Edison Awards Steering Committee.
Panel discussion moderators
SanDra bates
President and CEO, The Innovation Partners
Moderator for: Social Innovation: a new framework for
innovators to create solutions with sustainable impact
Sandra Bates is President and CEO of The Innovation Partners. She is an avid
innovation entrepreneur, author and speaker who founded the firm to foster collective
collaboration among leaders in business, government and non-profit to create solutions with sustainable
impact and help executive teams launch award winning products, services and programs. These coalitions
focus on helping the aging population, improving health care outcomes by addressing ‘whole person’ needs,
improving education and helping nature and humanity thrive together. As the former director and co-founder
of the Strategyn Institute, she worked with clients to create breakthrough products and services, streamlining the innovation process to make it more accessible and applicable to the social sector, non-profits, NGO’s,
the government sector and corporations who have an interest in serving the greater good. Her book, The
Social Innovation Imperative (McGraw-Hill) was released in December 2011.
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Jim Kirk
Senior Vice President & Editor in Chief, Sun Times Media
Moderator for: The Future of Media/Journalism
Jim Kirk is the Editor in Chief of Sun-Times Media. He was previously Chief of Editorial
Operations at Crain’s Chicago Business. Prior to joining Crain’s, Mr. Kirk was the Managing Editor at the Chicago News Cooperative. He has also worked in Washington D.C. at
Bloomberg News overseeing White House, Congress, and other federal agencies coverage. Mr. Kirk started
his journalism career in Chicago at Grocery Marketing Magazine and Adweek magazine before joining the
Chicago Sun-Times in 1995. He joined the Chicago Tribune in 1997, and grew to be one of Chicago’s premier
business journalists. Mr. Kirk grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and received a BS in Mass Communications from Illinois State University.
Bruce Japsen
Columnist/Blogger, Forbes
Moderator for: The future of individualizing medicine
Bruce Japsen has written about health care for two decades, covering the presidential
campaign bus rides of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as the rise, fall and rise again of
health reform while chronicling President Barack and Michelle Obama’s influence on
changes to the U.S. health system. Mr. Japsen was the health care business reporter at the Chicago Tribune
from 1998-2011 and previously wrote for Modern Healthcare magazine and the Des Moines Register. He currently contributes stories to the New York Times and Chicago Medicine magazine and also teaches writing at
Loyola University Chicago. Mr. Japsen can be heard on XM Satellite’s ReachMD or on Chicago’s CBS’ WBBM
newsradio, and can be seen on the PBS affiliate WTTW’s Chicago Tonight television public affairs program.
Presenters
John Bradburn
Manager of Waste-Reduction Efforts, General Motors
John is Manager of Waste-Reduction Efforts at General Motors. In this role, he leads
the company’s landfill-free initiative, which has resulted in 105 GM operations around
the world that reuse, recycle, and convert to energy all waste from daily operations.
John is an established expert in waste reduction and recycling, and frequently mentors
other companies pursuing zero-waste goals. John’s responsibilities also include directing the company’s
design-for-the-environment program, implementing sustainable processes and technologies that reduce
the company’s environmental impact and costs. He collaborates with suppliers, product and manufacturing
engineers, and external stakeholder groups. Under John’s leadership, GM recycled or reused 90 percent of
waste generated globally through various resource conservation efforts in 2011. Between 2000 and 2010, the
company reduced non-recycled manufacturing waste by 73 percent.
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Thomas Braun
President & CEO, Verisante Technology, Inc.
Prior to founding Verisante Technology, Inc., Thomas Braun practiced corporate securities law at Braun and Co., specializing in representing small high tech public companies.
Mr. Braun is experienced in the management of public companies and has conducted
dozens of mergers & acquisitions and ongoing public transactions. Mr. Braun earned
a BA from the University of Western Ontario, a JD from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of
Laws degree from the University of San Francisco specializing in International Business Transactions. He is
a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the Law Society of British Columbia
and the Canadian Bar Association. He is also admitted to practice before the Federal Court for the Northern
District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court Appeals.
Jamin Brazil
Founder & Co-CEO, Decipher, Inc.
With more than 12 years of experience in the marketing research industry, Jamin Brazil
brings a long record of innovation and expertise as the Founder and co-CEO of Decipher.
As the “go to” company in its industry, Decipher specializes in online survey programming, data collection, data processing/reporting and custom technology development.
Mr. Brazil oversees initiative implementation resulting in Decipher’s astounding growth year after year and
current employment of 140 full time employees state side. Prior to Decipher, Mr. Brazil served five years as
Vice President for MACRO Consulting based in Palo Alto, California. where he was responsible for webbased research development and implementation with a client list of over 300 companies including Adobe,
Allstate, Backcountry.com, CMB, eBay, Facebook, Google, HP, Intel, Kashi, Nautilus, Pampered Chef, Skype,
Wells Fargo, Yahoo!, and Zip Realty.
Rodney Brooks, PH.D.
Founder, Chairman & CTO, Rethink Robotics
Dr. Rodney Brooks is founder, CTO, and Chairman of Rethink Robotics, a 2008 Bostonbased startup developing a new class of industrial robots made in the USA that will help
keep manufacturing jobs in America. Rethink’s robots are to current industrial robots
what the PC was to the mainframe. Dr. Brooks was also a co-founder of iRobot (Nasdaq:
IRBT) and was variously CTO, Chairman, and board member from 1990 until 2011. From 1984 to 2010 he was on
the faculty at MIT as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics, and was the founding director of MIT CSAIL, the
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. While at MIT, he developed the behavior-based approach to robotics that underlies the robots of both iRobot and Rethink Robotics. Dr. Brooks received a PhD in
Computer Science from Stanford in 1981.
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Marshall Buxton
Product Manager, RadMatter
Marshall Buxton is the Product Manager at RadMatter, the game-based talent development platform where companies engage students in the real world of work – to foster,
vet and reward outstanding talent with jobs. Mr. Buxton is committed to making a positive
impact through social enterprise and creating products that catalyze change. He is an
expert in educational technology, working for startups building next generation tools for the classroom. Beyond his passion for education, he is obsessed with making products that solve real problems and positively
disrupt the status quo. Marshall is a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School, with an individualized degree in
Human Development, Psychology and Social Entrepreneurship.
Chris Casey
President, Nielsen BASES® and Nielsen Consumer Research
Chris Casey is President of Nielsen BASES® and Nielsen Consumer Research at Nielsen,
the worldwide leader in helping consumer goods companies maximize their return on
new product development. Most recently, Mr. Casey was Senior Vice President for Buy
Product Leadership Strategy and for Nielsen’s global innovation practice, and is an author
and speaker on innovation. Previously, Mr. Casey was a partner with The Cambridge Group and with Monitor
Group, where for more than two decades he served as a strategic advisor to clients from consumer goods,
retail, financial services, professional services, telecom, automotive, and chemicals. Mr. Casey received his
MS in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, where he graduated cum laude with high
honors in economics.
Dexter Cole
Vice President of Programming, Science Channel
As VP of Programming for the Science Channel, Dexter Cole currently oversees programming strategy and secures acquisitions to fuel the network’s programming pipeline. Mr.
Cole returned to Discovery after a two-year term as Vice President of Research for TV
One, where he was responsible for leading the network in the areas of programming and
consumer research, and was instrumental in growing the prime time ratings for the network. Mr. Cole was
employed at Discovery Communications, LLC for ten years where he managed research for each of the five
major Discovery networks: Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel and Discovery Health
Channel. He served as Vice President, TLC Research and was instrumental in the launch of successful TLC
series such as Little People, Big World, Miami Ink, Trading Spaces and What Not to Wear. He earned a BA,
magna cum laude, in Journalism and an MBA from Howard University in Washington, DC.
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Gianrico farrugia, m.d.
Director, Center for Individualizing Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., is a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic, as well
as a professor of medicine and physiology in the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. Dr.
Farrugia is also the basic science editor of the journal Neurogastroenterology & Motility.
He has published more than 200 articles on the topics of disorders of gastrointestinal motility, mechanosensitive ion channels, and the role of interstitial cells of Cajal in the regulation of gastrointestinal motility in health
and disease states. Dr. Farrugia’s awards include top teacher awards, the Outstanding Investigator Award
from the Mayo Clinic Department of Internal Medicine, and the Janssen Award for Outstanding Science in
Gastroenterology. He completed his undergraduate training at St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta, and
his MD at the University of Malta Medical School in 1987.
Vincent giampapa, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder Cell Health Institute
As the world’s first board-certified anti-aging physician, Dr. Vincent Giampapa is a
renowned cellular aging expert, surgeon, and clinical researcher. Dr. Giampapa is the
founding member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. His most advanced
cellular health venture is CellHealth™ Institute, whose latest groundbreaking research
on adult stem cells was recently presented at the Vatican by Dr. Giampapa. Dr. Giampapa has been awarded
medical and intellectual property patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and also assisted NASA
on the design of a space shuttle robotic arm. He is the author of six books on age management, including the
first and only medical textbook on anti-aging medicine titled The Principles and Practice of Anti-Aging Medicine for the Aesthetic Surgeon and Physician. He teaches at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New
Jersey, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and earned his MD from Mt. Sinai Medical School.
Ken Gray
Global Product Manager, Large Hydraulic Excavators, Caterpillar, Inc.
Ken Gray is the Global Product Manager for Large Hydraulic Excavators for Caterpillar’s
Excavation Division, responsible for achieving customer satisfaction through development and execution of the division’s worldwide product strategy. He has served Caterpillar, its dealers, and its customers in the U.S., Japan and Europe since 1982. Mr. Gray has
led his team in delivering the best worldwide quality to customers in the product line’s history and in developing Caterpillar’s first Tier 4/Stage IIIB machine, the 336E Hydraulic Excavator, which is highly regarded by
customers for outstanding productivity and efficiency. The new 336E H Hydraulic Hybrid model delivers up to
a 50 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to the previous model. He earned MS and BS degrees
in Mechanical Engineering with magna cum laude honors from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.
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hakon hakonarson, M.D., PH.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Dr. Hakon Hakonarson is a physician-scientist and Director of The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia’s Center for Applied Genomics (CAG), a high-throughput automated genotyping facility founded to identify the genetic causes of complex medical disorders such as
autism and cancer in children, with the objective of developing new therapies. The Center
represents a $40 million commitment from CHOP to genotype approximately 100,000 children. Dr. Hakonarson
has also served in several senior posts in the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Hakonarson has been the principal and co-principal investigator on several NIH-sponsored grants, and has published numerous papers on
genomic discoveries in scientific medical journals including Nature, Nature Genetics and The New England
Journal of Medicine. Time Magazine listed Dr. Hakonarson’s autism gene discovery among the top 10 medical
breakthroughs of 2009.
Kristian Hammond, PH.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Narrative Science
Dr. Kristian Hammond is CTO and one of the founders of Narrative Science. Dr. Hammond
is an accomplished researcher in the areas of human-machine interaction, context-driven
information systems and artificial intelligence. After completing his Ph.D. in computer
science at Yale University in 1986, Mr. Hammond founded The University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Under his direction, the laboratory flourished as a center for innovative artificial
intelligence research for over a decade. In 1998, Mr. Hammond moved to Northwestern University to form
Northwestern’s Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab) and began focusing on the generation of content
based on search and data analytics. He is currently on leave from the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
walter herbst, IDSA
Director/Professor, Master of Product Design and Development Program, McCormick
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University
Professor Walter Herbst created the Master of Product Design and Development Program for the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and also brings his
product development expertise into the classroom at the Kellogg School of Management.
In 1962, he founded Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc. which grew to become one of the three largest independently
owned product design and development firms in the country. Professor Herbst holds over 80 patents in
hardware, houseware and medical products. He is listed in Who’s Who of American Inventors, and received
the “Design of the Decade” award from the Industrial Design Society of America for his work with Gillette in
2001. Professor Herbst is a Fellow in IDEA, the Institute of Design Engineering and Applications program, and
is a NCEER Scholar for the Northwestern Center for Education Research.
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LeRoy E. Hood, M.D., PH.D.
Founder and President, Institute for Systems Biology
Dr. Leroy Edward Hood is a pioneer in the systems approach to biology and medicine. He
and Caltech colleagues developed the four DNA instruments that paved the way for the
successful mapping of the human genome. Dr. Hood has played a role in founding more
than fourteen biotechnology companies, including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Darwin,
The Accelerator and Integrated Diagnostics. Dr. Hood is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Of the 6,000+ scientists world-wide who
belong to these academies, Dr. Hood is one of only fifteen people accepted to all three. His awards include
the coveted NAE 2011 Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized
biomedicine and forensic science, as well as the 2012 National Medal of Science, the highest honor the
President of the United States can award a citizen.
Paul E. Jacobs, PH.D.
Chairman and CEO of Qualcomm, Inc.
Paul Jacobs has been a leader in the field of mobile communications for over two
decades and is a key architect of Qualcomm’s strategic vision. Through his technological innovations and advocacy, Jacobs spearheaded Qualcomm’s efforts to develop and
commercialize mobile technology breakthroughs that have contributed significantly to the
growth of the company and the industry at large. Some of the most notable initiatives that can be attributed
to Jacobs’ leadership include the first smartphone based on Palm OS®, the inclusion of GPS capabilities in
mobile phones, the Brew® system, which enables over-the-air downloading of applications, QChat, a VOIP,
push-to-talk system, and mirasol®, an advanced reflective display technology. Dr. Jacobs is the recipient of
the 2013 Edison Achievement Award, which will be presented to him during tonight’s Edison Awards Gala.
H. Michael Keyoung, M.D., PH.D.
Managing Director, Burrill & Company
Dr. Michael Keyoung is Managing Director in Venture Capital and Private Equity at Burrill
& Company, where he is also General Partner of US and Asia venture funds, portfolio
manager of U.S., European and Asian public portfolio companies and also leads Pan-Asia
transaction business as Head of Asia. He has served on the Board of Directors at New
York County Medical Society and Board of Overseers at the Cornell University-Weill Medical College in New
York, and has been a consultant to clients including Eli Lilly, Bausch & Lomb, Samsung Electronics and LG
Life Sciences. As a National Institute of Health-Medical Scientist Training Program scholarship recipient,
Dr. Keyoung received both his M.D. and Ph.D. of Philosophy in Neuroscience and Neurology from Cornell
University Weill Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Keyoung was a Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Research fellow and received his clinical surgical training at University of
California, San Francisco and biomedical fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute and Rockefeller
University in New York.
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Presenters
Jason Kovac, Ph.D.
Executive Director of Academic Initiatives, Johnson County Community College
Dr. Jason Kovac is Executive Director, Academic Initiatives at Johnson County Community
College (KS). In this role, he facilitates educational entrepreneurship across disciplines
and divisions. Recent major projects have included consultation with the university
system of Pakistan as they develop their community college system, re-engineering the
College’s developmental education program, and original research regarding curriculum capacity in the community college. Dr. Kovac earned his BA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, an MS
in Library Science from the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in Educational Administration from The Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas—Austin.
Mindy Manes
Innovation Strategist, The Center for Innovation, Johnson County Community College
Mindy Manes is the Innovation Strategist with the Center for Innovation at Johnson
County Community College, one of the top ten U.S. community colleges. Her previous institutional positions were in learner engagement, sustainability, and corporate outreach/
strategic partnerships. In the business world, Ms. Manes’ experience includes creative
staffing and artist liaison roles at Hallmark Cards, and financial operations work at Morgan Stanley. She
received her BA and BS degrees in English and mass communications from The University of Texas, and is
completing her MS in communication studies with the University of Kansas.
Scott p. Mcbride
Shareholder, Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd.
Scott McBride focuses primarily on the litigation and trial of patent, trademark, copyright,
and complex technology cases in federal courts, the International Trade Commission and
the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. McBride’s professional experience includes
service as a Patent Examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. McBride is a
member of the bars of the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. McBride received his BS in Astrophysics from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, and his JD from the University of Dayton, graduating magna cum laude.
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Dr. Graeme MacKenzie D.PHIL.
Director of Industry Affairs, Adlens®
Dr. Graeme MacKenzie joined Adlens® in 2006 as a principal clinical scientist. Dr.
MacKenzie is an optometrist and came to Adlens® following a number of years working
as a university lecturer specializing in optics and binocular vision. Dr. MacKenzie led
the design of the World Bank-funded Child Vision Study on variable focus eyewear, and
through his knowledge of the human visual system and the eye care profession, contributes to the regulatory,
marketing, design and training aspects of Adlens® business in his role as Director of Industry Affairs.
tim pool
American Journalist and Founder, TimCast
Journalist Tim Pool’s unique style of interactive broadcast journalism exists at the intersection of social and mainstream media. His live coverage has been featured by outlets
such as NBC, Reuters, The New York Times, and Al Jazeera English, and his 21-hour
marathon reporting during the Occupy Wall Street protests earned him fame. Mr. Pool
engages viewers as participants by combining first hand reporting and commentary via live video stream
and chat, allowing the viewing public to join in the action by directly asking questions, which he responds to
while reporting live. Pool is consistently developing new technologies to advance the field of journalism and
decentralize the ability to share information. Mr. Pool was featured as the “Media Messenger of Zuccotti
Park” by TIME.
James Robinson
Director, Strategy, Evaluation and Research, Rotary International
James Robinson is the Director of Strategy, Evaluation and Research for Rotary International where he has served for 15 years. Mr. Robinson has managed three pilots of
Rotary’s new Future Vision grant making model, which is a 2013 Edison Award nominee
for Social Impact. Future Vision is designed to simplify the grant-making process,
improve the focus and sustainability of grant outcomes, and foster strategic partnerships with organizations
aligned with Rotary’s mission. Mr. Robinson serves on the Steering Committee of the RI/USAID International
H20 Collaboration to jointly fund $6 million water, sanitation and hygiene projects in Ghana, the Dominican
Republic, and the Philippines. He has a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and a
MS in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from Grand Valley State University of Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Mr. Robinson is a member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Chicago Far North.
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geof rochester
Chief Marketing Officer, The Nature Conservancy
Geof Rochester joined the Conservancy as the Chief Marketing Officer in July 2010. He
is responsible for steering the organization’s marketing, membership and visibility strategies. Mr. Rochester has a deep and varied marketing background. Most recently, he was
the executive vice president for marketing at World Wrestling Entertainment. Prior to that
position, he served as senior vice president for marketing at Showtime Networks. He held senior marketing positions at Comcast Communications, Radisson Hotels International and Proctor and Gamble, and has
consulted with several non-profit organizations, helping them advance their missions through strategic marketing efforts. A graduate of Georgetown University, Rochester received his MBA from the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Doug Stone
Vice President of Innovation, Maddock Douglas Inc.
Doug Stone leads the Discovery phase of Mind to Market projects at Maddock Douglas.
He has over 16 years of digital and innovation experience and is a graduate of Northwestern’s Master of Product Design and Development program. He has worked with a broad
range of clients including Health Care and Health Insurance companies to create new
services, products and business models.
katherine von jan
Founder & CEO, RadMatter
Katherine von Jan is the founder and CEO of RadMatter, the revolutionary online, gamebased, talent development platform where companies engage students in the real world
of work to foster, vet and reward outstanding talent with jobs.
An innovator and benevolent troublemaker, Ms. von Jan is a strategic advisor to academic and business leaders globally, a Huffington Post Blogger, and author of 101 Wacky Ideas for Reinventing Higher Education which poses provocative ideas for change regarding the crisis in education completion
in the United States. Her views on culture, technology and innovation have been shared broadly through
such venues as BBC, MSNBC, and Wired Magazine. She’s also been a guest lecturer at Columbia University,
Harvard and MIT. Ms. von Jan is a graduate of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the
University of New Hampshire.
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Acknowledgements
Meet the Innovators Forum Luncheon
The Edison Awards would like to thank the firm of McAndrews
Held & Malloy for their generous sponsorship of today’s lunch.
When McAndrews, Held & Malloy was founded in 1988, their mission was to attract the most exceptional
intellectual property and technology-focused attorneys the legal world has to offer. The firm’s steady growth
has been accomplished at an attorney-by-attorney pace, rather than by merger or acquisition. From associates to senior partners, their close-knit team delivers superior legal and strategic counsel on matters critical
to their clients’ enterprises. www.mhmlaw.com
THE DILENSCHNEIDER GROUP
The Dilenschneider Group’s philosophy is to bring to clients a level of communications
counsel and creativity and an exposure to contacts, networks and relationships that
are not available anywhere else in the world. With offices in New York, Washington
DC and Chicago the Group provides access for clients to the finest and most seasoned
communications professionals in the world, with experience in fields ranging from
mergers and acquisitions and crisis communications to marketing, government affairs
and international media. Email Jonathan Dedmon, [email protected] or visit
www.dilenschneider.com
CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Giving children a voice – that is what Chicago Children’s Choir has been doing since
1956. Founded during the height of the Civil Rights Movement as a way to unite children
from different backgrounds, Chicago Children’s Choir is a nonprofit organization committed to providing multicultural choral music education. We would like to acknowledge the outstanding performance provided by the members of the Chicago Children’s
Choir during last night’s Opening Reception. www.ccchoir.org
K+B PHOTOGRAPHY
Based in Chicago, K+B Photography specializes in wedding & event photography.
Our goal is to document and preserve real moments without being intrusive; composing them formally so each photograph is a work of art. We strive to connect strongly
with clients and deliver beyond their needs. To learn more about who we are, our
services, and products, visit www.knbphoto.com. After the Edison Awards, view
photos at: knbphoto.zenfolio.com/edisonawards
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Robert Dilenschneider
Founder & Principal
ONE SOURCE TALENT
One Source Talent is a service for the fashion and acting communities. One
Source Talent maintains an interactive database of models, actors and clients
looking to fulfill creative requests and needs. We would like to acknowledge the volunteer models who will
be participating in tonight’s Edison Awards Gala for their service. www.onesourcetalent.com
UPRIVER PRODUCTIONS
Upriver Productions is a video production house that makes Your vision, Our goal.
We use current video technology to capture and edit in order to ensure high quality
and delivery. Our goal is to produce captivating videos that will engage and enlighten the viewer through
striking visuals and powerful stories. Email [email protected] or visit www.upriverpro.com
The scienceFIST Foundation
The scienceFIST Foundation was founded by Marc Hans and Colin Robinson in
January 2010 as a way of engaging and exciting people about scientific inquiry and as
a rally cry to push young people towards new levels of scientific discovery. The mission
of scienceFIST is to empower at risk students through hands on after school science
mentoring programs that transform students into leaders.
What is the scienceFIST? The scienceFIST is that feeling you get every time you learn something new, discover something, or do something you thought you couldn’t. That feeling compels you to ball your hand into a
fist, and pump that fist in the air in celebration of the achievement. THAT’S the scienceFIST.
Edison Universe has been partnered with scienceFIST for the second consecutive year, and together have
worked to host Learning Exchanges and a Mentorship program involving members of the Edison Awards
community. Please be sure to visit the scienceFIST Foundation display during the Meet the Innovators
Forum. www.sciencefist.org
RadMatter
Edison Universe is collaborating with RadMatter to engage and foster a
community of innovation that bridges industry and academia. Edison Universe invites its community of Edison-Award winner companies and professionals to positively challenge,
mentor and celebrate students’ curiosity and innovation talent – powered by RadMatter.
RadMatter is an online talent development platform where college students solve company challenges to
grow, stand out in a crowd and discover meaningful career opportunities. (It’s not only talent development –
it’s the future of campus recruiting.) So you think you are ready to Rad? See RadMatter’s ad in this program
and also be sure to visit the RadMatter display during the Meet the Innovators Forum. www.radmatter.com
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For Your Information
IDEATION SESSION
“The best part of the Edison Awards is getting to meet other visionary thinkers–so many of them all
in one place. The excitement level from those idea exchanges was palpable.”
Experiencing the birth of ideas at an ideation session... This morning, for the first time, our Meet the
Innovators Forum will feature an Ideation Session as a part of our program. The world-renowned Mayo
Clinic will present a problem for which they want ideas, which will be tackled simultaneously by multiple
tables composed of highly innovative, entrepreneurial individuals in a specially-designed rapid prototyping
of ideas. The dynamics of the session, however, dictate that participation be limited to only a relatively small
number of participants. If you are interested to participate in this one-hour session (10:15-11:15am) and have
not already signed up (in response to our Attendee Bulletin), please notify one of the Edison Awards’ staff
members to determine if space is still available.
Get ting Around
Ride in style with innovation. UBER is offering new clients $25 off their first ride
during the 2013 Edison Awards. Order black car service at m.uber.com and use promo
code EDISON13. Travel hassle-free and enjoy the Edison Awards!
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1 SHERATON HOTEL
301 E. North Water Street
2 CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
78 E. Washington Street
(At Michigan Avenvue)
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3 GRAND BALLROOM
Navy Pier
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www.radmatter.com
CHALLENGE
YOUR FUTURE
WORKFORCE
TO PROVE
THEIR WORTH.
Don't drown in a sea of meaningless
resumes. Upgrade your campus
game of the future.
RadMatter is an online talent development platform where
college students solve corporate challenges to discover
meaningful career opportunities and stand out from the crowd.
With RadMatter, companies can:
Build a thriving talent pool
Gamify the Internship
Invite college students to solve your
challenges, gain experience, career
insight and build recognition with
your brand.
Transform your internships into a series
of challenges to differentiate and draft
your future hires.
We're partnering with Edison Universe to extend a free pilot
to Edison Award Winners and a 10K license to Seal purchasers.
To get started, see us at the RadMatter booth or contact us at [email protected]
Sp onsors
Partners
American Association of
Advertising Agencies (4 A’s)
American Productivity and
Quality Center (APQC)
The American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The Association of Technology,
Management, and Applied Engineering
(ATMAE)
Best Practice Institute
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
The HUB Magazine
Marketing Executives
Networking Group (MENG)
Design Management
Institute (DMI)
Women’s Online Media and
Education Network
Nine Sigma
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Browse past winners, photos, videos, and more at:
w w w. E d i s o n Awa r d s .c o m
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Share the excitement today with #edisonawards. Be sure to also follow us for features like
our #InnovationChat (every Thursday at 3:00pm CDT), where you can exchange ideas with
others in the Edison innovation community.