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Professor Michael BARRY, MS

RENOWNED INNOVATION EDUCATOR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

 Michael Barry is Consulting Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University (the famous “d.School”), teaching Needfinding and Cross Cultural Design.  

He is also guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Business and the University of California Haas School of Business.  Michael teaches the nation’s top students the most advanced methods in how to connect innovation to new understandings of customers.  

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Jodi ENGELBART, MS,

Healthcare Administration

EXPERIENCED  INNOVATION WORKSHOP LEADER and ANALYST

 Jodi Engelberg is a highly accomplished innovation and change consultant, facilitator, and workshop leader with extensive international experience in business, government, and non-profit sectors and in multistakeholder networks. She designs and facilitates breakthrough workshops to enable new ways of thinking and to pilot new ideas and new approaches.

Jodi was a founding member and first president of the Value Web (http://www.thevalueweb.org), an international association of leading facilitators, based in Switzerland.  She has worked extensively with the World Financial Forum in Davos, and is also a founding partner in Mattergroup, a unique consulting team that applies models and methods of change to help corporations address their most pressing strategic issues and challenges.

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Betty DHAMERS

INNOVATION FACILTATOR and COACH 

Betty has been leading large transformation projects to develop systemic solutions through the use of collaborative ways of working for a wide variety of clients throughout Europe.  Recent clients include Airbus, where she has been working with the engineering leadership on transformative projects for many years, as well Bulgari, UNICEF, and BNP Paribas.

Betty specializes in creative problem solving, accelerated solution building and the design of collaborative coaching and training programs.  Born and raised in Belgium, with a background in Political Sciences and International Relations, Betty is tri-lingual in Dutch, English, French, and is based in Paris.

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Arthur LOK

MEERCAT WORKS, LEADING INNOVATION CONSULTANT in CHINA

Trained as a physician at China’s prestigious Fudan University, Arthur Lok is co-founder of the China Institute of Innovation (CII), a leading innovation training and consulting firm based in Shanghai, with operations also in Beijing and Shenzen.  A certified facilitator, trainer and consultant, he leads projects for CII with global multinationals and Chinese firms.  He is a certified trainer by TCSFEA, Training Center Of State Administration Of Foreign Experts Affairs, to deliver the Certified Innovation Professional and Certified Chief Innovation Officer Programs in China. He has rich experience in facilitating innovation and collaboration sessions. 

His expertise lies in leveraging creativity and collaboration to innovate; TRIZ; the influence of design to human behaviors; creative thinking, etc. His training and facilitation sessions have received high praised from clients including Avery Dennison, Nokia, UAES, Fotile, Starbucks, Syngenta, Shanghai General Motors, and many other clients. People normally appreciate his bright and sharp insight in any situation helping others to generate and nurture new ideas.  He is very practical and insures that ideas are implemented to create more values to the users.  Arthur is editor of the book Organizational Innovation Management, published in 2012.

Arthur leads programs in both Mandarin and English.  In addition to his training and consulting activities.

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Doug CHEEK

WORKSHOP DESIGNER and FACILITATOR

Doug is a outstanding and engaging facilitator and collaborative session designer with more than 10 years of experience delivering creative and brilliantly successful sessions, primarily with Fortune 500 companies in focus areas including Innovation and Change Management.

He has a passion for leading groups and maximizing their effectiveness in business areas including new product and service development, software implementation, interactive training, strategy development and business transformation, and brings a wealth of results-oriented experience in moving organizations forward.   His recent clients include:  KPMG, Kaiser Permanente, McKesson, Genentech, Novo Nordisk, HP, National Grid, Pentair, Baxter, Target, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Turner Broadcasting, Capgemini, Enbridge, Cott Beverage, City of NY, U.S. Air Force, Service Now, Cisco Systems, Clorox, DHL, and Google.  Previously he did stand up comedy, hosted a radio talk show, and auditioned to be host of American Idol. 

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Isa OLMSTEAD

COLLABORATIVE PROCESS FACILITATOR

 Isa Olmstead is a project manager and collaborative process facilitator with 15+ years experience helping organizations solve for critical business needs through strategic visioning, innovation, organizational design, transformation management, and executive alignment.  Over the years she has worked with boutique and global consulting companies on hundreds of collaborative workshops, helping groups wrestle with the many and varied challenges of today’s world.   Isa thrives on all things diverse, and considers herself lucky to have found work that is never dull, always different, and surrounds her with fun, creative people. A long-time resident of New York City, she was born and raised in San Francisco and has a Bachelor of Arts from San Francisco State University. 

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Claire RUMORE

AGILE FACILITATOR & ETHNOGRAPHER

 Claire is a gifted facilitator and ethnographic researcher who combines her academic background in the social sciences and training in somatic psychotherapy with advanced skills in Agile project management and business creativity to deliver innovative, interpersonal learning experiences.

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Kate COVEY

WRITTEN and VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

 Kate has been working in the Management Consulting industry since joining Capgemini’s Accelerated Solutions Environment in 2006. She has moved on to work in similar environments over the past decade, including InnovationLabs, Hufano + Associates, and others. 

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Victoria GARZA

VIDEOGRAPHER

 Victoria Garza has more than 16 years of experience in the integration of visual communications and information design with the innovative field of business collaboration and acceleration. She has worked with Capgemini, KPMG, and PwC’s Experience Center as a multimedia manager and solution designer. She has also worked with cutting edge companies that are thought leaders in innovation, such as InnovationLabs and FutureLab.  She has worked across all industries and sectors, from health care to energy to finance.  She holds an M.A in Media Theory, History and Criticism and an M.F.A in Film and Media Production from New York University, and rounds out her business communication skills with years of experience creating and developing both documentaries and narrative films in New York and Los Angeles. 

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Dallas HALLAM

VIDEOGRAPHER

Dallas Hallam has more than two decades of experience in the media arts. After receiving a degree in Cinema from the University of Iowa, Dallas moved to Los Angeles where he crafted films and videos from the ground up.  He also works in the field of business transformation communication with firms in health care, energy, and digital communication through animations, thought leadership videos, podcasts, infographics, and documentaries, working with business leaders to craft messages that engage, inform and help to guide change. 

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Judy CHANG

WRITTEN and VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

Judy is a multi-disciplinary, creative communications specialist. Her expertise in delivering strategic, high impact visuals has helped clients win significant assignments. Judy also provides facilitation support for business transformation and solutioning sessions. In this capacity she has the opportunity to apply her skills in design, illustration, photography, and writing. Past and current clients include CBRE, Jones Lang La Salle, Baxalta, Shire, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Unified School District, Viacom, IBM, PwC, Capgemini. Judy has a Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is conversationally fluent in Mandarin.

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Mark DEVERA

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Mark is an experienced graphic designer based in the Philippines and has worked on various creative fields including games, comics, illustration, graphic design and animation.  Mark did the awesome illustrations for the Africa version of our polio comic book for UNICEF.

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Christopher FULLER

GRAPHIC FACILTATOR

 For more than 20 years, Christopher Fuller has worked as a graphic facilitator and is considered one of its leading talents in this unique industry. Illustrating stories in real time with pictures and words for some of the most prominent companies and organizations throughout the world, Mr. Fuller has supported conferences and strategic planning sessions attended by distinguished world figures working on a myriad of subjects from such as healthcare, finance, technology and NGO work. Christopher Fuller’s mission is to use the power of graphics and rapid visualization to assist organizations in telling their stories.

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Paul HARVEY

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR

Since 1999 Paul has built a strong track record by helping improve the performance of Fortune 500 companies and government organizations through high performance collaboration and innovation.  The bulk of Paul’s career has been spent working with world-class facilitation teams in decision-making processes to enable organizations to make better, faster business decisions, maximizing collaboration and delivering tangible outputs. 

His recent clients include Covance, Capgemini, Ernst & Young LLP, Exxon Mobil, BP, Progressive, CNA, Aetna, Nationwide, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Universal Studios, Vonage, Monsanto, IBM, Boston Properties, EMC, SuperValu, Staples, Living Cities, Hubbell, Coca-Cola, Weatherford International, Cisco, Microsoft, Dominos, Target, Cox Communications, and Johnson & Johnson.

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TECHNOLOGY TEAM:  FUTURELAB

FutureLab is a sister company of InnovationLabs.  While InnovationLabs is focused on innovation consulting, FutureLab is a technology incubator and strategy firm.  FutureLab’s core technology is the Operating System for Innovation (OS/i) SAAS software tool, which has been developed by a global team of experts across many complementary domains and technologies.  Additional technologies under incubation include advances in virtual reality / augmented reality, large format visualization, and workplace productivity.

Moses MA

SYSTEM ARCHITECT and FUTURELAB CHAIRMAN

Moses Ma  is a remarkable business visionary who has been praised in Time Magazine, the New York Times and many other publications.  He has enjoyed a rich and diverse professional life spanning academia, science, technology, philosophy and business at the forefront of many exciting technologies.  A legendary game designer who created two of the world’s best selling computer games, including SpectreVR, which literally invented the category of networked games, he built an uncapitalized software startup into the 97th largest, 7th fastest growing, and 11th most profitable in the country.  He also co-developed with IBM the first specification for universal identity on the Internet, and at the CommerceNet thinktank he invented the concept of eMarkets and helped to establish the foundational guidelines for the semantic Web. He is also an innovation consultant who has helped companies to increase innovativeness and creativity.  After earning his BS and MS degrees in physics from Cal Tech, he abandoned academia mid-thesis to answer the call of Silicon Valley.  He is co-author of Agile Innovation and Soulful Branding, and author of The Agile Innovation Workbook.

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Steve MARKMAN

SENIOR BUSINESS LEADER

Steve Markman has five decades of expertise in high technology product development and product marketing, working for internationally recognized companies in the defense; telecommunications; networking; network management; security; applications; voice service provider; and Innovation businesses.  He is the former CEO of General Magic Inc., Executive VP of Products at Avaya, Inc., CEO of DB Best Technologies, Executive VP of Products at Novell, Inc., General Manager of Hewlett Packard, Inc. and Division Manager at AT&T Communications, Inc. and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Inc.  

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Dr. Po Chi WU

SENIOR BUSINESS LEADER

 Dr. Po Chi Wu is formerly Adjunct Professor with joint appointments in the School of Business and Management and the School of Business at the Hong Kong  University of Science & Technology.  A highly successful international venture capitalist and entrepreneur, he has lived and worked both in the United States and in Asia, and brings a unique perspective and the rich context of more than 30 years of experience and insight into the challenges of innovation and entrepreneurship. Co-founder and Managing Director of DragonBridge Capital, an investment advisory firm that focused on early-stage technology-focused companies in China, he was also co-founder and President of Allegro Capital in Silicon Valley.  He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University.  His family includes several generations of illustrious scholars – his great grand-father was a Hanlin Scholar in the Ching Dynasty, his father retired from the Presidency of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan at the age of 88, and was known as “The Father of Modern Physics in China.”

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Dr. Rutu MULKAR-MEHTA

MACHINE LEARNING / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ARCHITECT

 Dr. Rutu Mulkar-Mehta is a professor at Northeastern University in Seattle and is the founder and CEO of Ticary Solutions – a Natural Language Processing based consultancy in Seattle. She has extensive experience and expertise in Information Extraction, Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems, Word Semantics, and Machine Learning. She has worked in industries including

healthcare, social media, email, marketing, amongst others. 

Rutu started out as a Computer Engineer and later got her Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from University of Southern California (USC). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the San Diego

Supercomputer Center, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and has worked with several startups and government agencies through the years.

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Dr. Scott MINNEMAN

TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT

Dr. Scott Minneman is an Interaction Design professor at the California College of the Arts within the three-pronged (Graphic Design, ID, & IxD) Graduate Design program that prepares students for practicing User Experience, Design Research, Interaction Design and other roles in the burgeoning design field.  His primary teaching focus is on the studio and thesis track, with course offerings that apply design skills to real-world problems, working with actual stakeholders in the community, and speculative design. Students learn and apply skills in screen design, branding, human-computer interaction, physical computing, prototyping, user studies, business analysis, and more.