March 22 - 25, 2006
with Pre-Conference Institutes
March 20 - 21, 2006
at Hilton Austin Airport in Austin, TX

Conference Program To Date
Conference Presenters 'Biographical Narratives and Contact Info
Visual Overview of Conference Program

Monday & Tuesday, March 20 -21: Pre-Conference Institutes
Keynotes & Plenary Sessions
Wednesday, March 22
Thursday, March 23
Friday, March 24
Saturday, March 25

Thursday, March 23, 2006

[early morning before Breakfast] - eXtreme Thinking led by Rolf Smith

Breakfast Plenary - Extreme Creativity: A Perspective on the Future led by Ann Herrmann-Nehdi (CEO, Herrmann Brain Domninance Institute, Lake Lure, North Carolina)

Giraffe Heroes Spotlight #2 by Ann Medlock (Founder/ Creative Director, Giraffe Heroes Project, Langley Washington)

Creativity, Innovation, and Global Competitiveness led by Ulises Pabon (Executive Vice-President, QBS, Inc, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

A Pre-Volution: Creativity and Change for Organizations by Karen Franta Love (Vice President, The de Bono Group, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri)

Achieving Creative Environments within Organizations  led by Brad Fregger (CEO, First World Library, Inc., Austin, Texas) and Susan Gilbertson (President, Gilberston and Associates, Sarasota, Florida)

Creativity@Work in Multiple Walks of Life moderated by Joyce Juntune with panel comprised of A. Baris Gunersel, Marcia Bastian, Bud Wurtz (Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas)

Impact of Playing Educational Games on Enhancement of Creativity led by Bagher Ghobari Bonab (Faculty of Psychology & Education, University of Tehran, Iran)

Depression as Metamorphis by Carol McCormick (Storyteller, Trainer, Public Speaker and Ritualisr, SpiritMind Institute, Plymouth, Minnesota)

MASTER CLASS: Creativity in the Cosmos: A Philosophical Appreciation (presenting the “Process Thought” of Alfred North Whitehead) led by Adam Blatner (Teacher / Writer, Senior University, Georgetown, Texas)

Luncheon Plenary - Creative Marketing & Fundraising: The Lance Armstrong Foundation (potential keynote) led by Betty Otter Nickerson (COO, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas) & Mitchel Stoller (CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas)

Giraffe Heroes Spotlight #3 by Ann Medlock (Founder/ Creative Director, Giraffe Heroes Project, Langley Washington)

Innovate On Purpose (TM) led by Dean Hering (Chief Innovator, NetCentrics, Raleigh, North Carolina) & Jeffrey Phillips (Vice President, Marketing, NetCentrics)

Creative Ways to Recruit a Creative Workforce – A Case Study led by Nathan Kracklauer (Director of Content Development, Austin, Texas)

The Birth of Novelty: Ensuring New Ideas Get a Fighting Chance by K. Brian Dorval (CEO, Think First Serve, Inc., Amherst, New York) & Ken Lauer (Senior Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analyst, International Masters Publishers, Corfu, New York)

Timeless Creativity in the Library & Information Environment: turning Questions & Answers into Information Gathering & Knowledge Sharing Experiences led by Cynthia Lee Barrancotto (Reference & Instruction Librarian, Flagler College/Proctor Library, St. Augustine , Florida )

MASTER CLASS for Nonprofits led by Jeff deCagna

Afternoon Plenary - Thinking Like An Imagineer: THe Disney Experience led by Peggy Van Pelt (Walt Disney Imagineering, Los Angeles, CA)

Evening Program - Finding Magic in the Mundane led by Mary Gordon Spence (Owner, Ask Mary Gordon, Austin, Texas)

Networking & Collegial Sharing Opportunities

An In-Depth Study of Personal Creative Maintenance led by Suzanne Carroll (Adjunct Professor, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas)

ACA2006 will be even better than ACA2005

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