Creating a Marketplace
for Ideas
Columbus is emerging as a leader, but the city is not without its challenges. Many of our brightest students leave the region every year and our emerging entrepreneurial culture is always in need of venture capital. Columbus may possess a wealth of assets but that doesn’t mean we are leveraging them. To truly reach our potential as a community, we need an understanding of needed skills, a clear inventory of current capacity on which business can grow and acceptance of the value of failure.
To explore these ideas and to truly take advantage of Columbus’ unique situation, we will be hosting the 4th Annual Innovate Columbus, “Creating a Marketplace for Ideas,” Thursday, October 4. It’s an event aimed at preparing local companies for new growth while specifically addressing the issues of risk taking in creative culture. IC 2012 will empower and unleash the potential of our assets – as individuals, as companies and as a leading city of the future.
12 – 1pm Registration
1 – 1:10pm Welcome
1:10 – 1:30pm Partnership Forum
1:30 – 2:15pm Richard Florida
2:15 – 2:30pm Intermission
2:30 – 3:10pm Jeff Dyer
3:10 – 3:30pm Intermission
3:30 – 4pm Innovation Pods
4 – 4:45pm Sir Ken Robinson
4:45 – 5pm Intermission
5 – 5:30pm Partnership Forum
5:30 – 8pm Closing Reception
