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What Makes for a Compelling Conference on Innovation? I'm freshly back from a conference—the Design Management Institute—in Santa Monica.  As I was stewing on my time there, I realized that it was much harder than expected to find a reference point for the experience I'd just had. I've been to plenty of innovation-centric conferences before but none quite like this one. So, I've done a bit of a brain-dump and laid it all out on the table. Here's what it was like:

The basic details:

The positives:

The not-so-positives:

Overall, I think a good conference should...

Tell me, what do you think makes a compelling conference, on innovation or otherwise?

- Clay Maxwell @bizinovationist

Design, BusinessClay MaxwellJuly 11, 2013DMI, design management, business design, innovation, conferenceComment