PROVIDENCE JOURNAL / KATHY BORCHERS
At Trinity Rep in Providence, Business Innovation Factory participants, or "innovation junkies" talk during a break, or as BIF founder Saul Kaplan says, they "collide."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The two-day conference that's brought thinkers and doers to Providence from around the country kicked off Wednesday morning with presentations from a cancer survivor, a Wall Street veteran, a teen-aged roboticist and a military combat photographer.
What those four, and the roughly 400 people attending the BIF9 -- the 2013 version of the annual innovators' summit hosted by the Business Innovation Factory -- is that they all share the "transformation" gene, BIF founder Saul Kaplan told them.
Doug Ullman, the president of cancer fundraising organization LiveStrong Foundation talked about survivorship; Whitney Johnson urged the audience to show up for their dreams; Easton LaChappelle is figuring out how to make his dream of finely tuned, low-cost prosthetics a reality, and Stacey Pearsall, reminded people to take time from living their dreams to help military veterans.
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