Hi! I'm finally resettled in Austin, Texas, possibly the only place in the US where you can get a tattoo and dance to two-stepping music in the same neighborhood!

I am still working as Director of Insights & Innovation at Decision Analyst, working remotely. I am also re-launching both this blog and the Corante Innovation Hub I helped start earlier this year.

Part of the Innovation Hub relaunch is a conference blogjam that promises to be lots of fun. The conference is BIF-2, an annual summit held by the non-profit Business Innovation Factory that brings together innovators from across the public and private sectors to share stories about creating change and driving innovation. This year’s summit, the BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit, will be held on October 4-5 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Several Innovation Hub bloggers including myself will be at the event doing a real-time blogjam that can be accessed from the Innovation Hub blog.

Here are more details about the conference itself, if you'd like to go:

BIF-2 will be hosted by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg and architect, author, and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman. The duo will guide participants through a program that includes Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Nestlé Purina Vice President Betsy Cohen, Gap Inc. Executive Vice President Ivy Ross, Sirius Satellite Radio Executive Vice President Mary Pat Ryan, Anatomical Travelogue CEO Alexander Tsiaras, Pandora.com founder Tim Westergren, and Titanic Discoverer Bob Ballard, Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor, Medici Effect author Frans Johansson, Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live writer Andy Robin, IDEO’s Director of Human Factors Design and Research Jane Fulton Suri, InnoCentive co-founder Alph Bingham, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Director Hugh Herr, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Founder and Artistic Director Liz Lerman, architect/artist Michael Singer, network guru Peter Gloor, and Director of R&D for Blue’s Clues Alice Wilder, among others.

The Summit format — more conversation than conference — is unique. Presenters have only fifteen minutes on stage to share personal reflections on how they created innovation or catalyzed change. Groups of storytellers are blocked around generous breaks that give participants and storytellers ample opportunity to interact. Most importantly, storytellers fully participate in the two-day event as members of the audience.