Author Pam Henderson defines the concept of “opportunity thinking” and how it can help your business.

Pam Henderson, Ph.D., is CEO of NewEdge, Inc., a growth, strategy and design firm that advises companies across every industry including over 75 Fortune 500 and 50 startups and non-profits. Pam pioneered Opportunity Thinking™ principles, a new approach to innovation that helps organizations create sustainable growth. Organizations are adopting Opportunity Thinking™ as their corporate innovation strategy for long term growth.

Pam is also the author of a new book on Opportunity Thinking, titled You Can Kill An Idea, But You Can’t Kill An Opportunity! How to Discover News Sources of Growth for Your Organization, now in its second publishing by Wiley, a trademark of John Wiley & Sons.

How do you teach innovation? Professor and author Peter Boatwright explains.

In this clip, Peter explains how students at Carnegie Mellon University were able to help MSA improve the design of safety equipment for construction workers:

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Peter Boatwright is the Alan D. Shocker Professor of Marketing and New Product Development at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Boatwright is also co-founder and co-Director of the Integrated Innovation Institute, a market-focused center designed to speed the pace of innovation. The Integrated Innovation Institute unites the three foundational innovation disciplines to cross train individuals and teams to become elite innovators. In addition to its executive education, applied research, and sponsored projects, the Institute offers professional master degree programs in Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley.

Professor Boatwright has taught courses on product innovation, brand strategy, new product management, pricing strategy, and marketing research. Boatwright has coauthored two books on innovation, The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products and Built to Love: Creating Products that Captivate Customers. Professor Boatwright actively consults with companies and has worked with Nissan, Apple, International Truck and Engine (Navistar), Campbell’s, Philips-Respironics, Bayer, Bosch, Merck, Mindtree, MSA (Mine Safety Appliances), Procter and Gamble, Lubrizol, McKesson, GlaxoSmithKline, New Balance, DesignAdvanceSystems, Hewlett Packard, and Lockheed Martin.

Professor Boatwright earned a BS in mathematics at Wheaton College, a MS in statistics from the University of Wisconsin, and a MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He joined the Tepper School faculty in 1997.

Why bet on virtual reality? The Boost VC team explains new applications beyond gaming.

Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Earnest. Currently his portfolio of investments is valued at more than $1.5B. Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams and to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper’s dream to create an Iron Man suit.

Why bet on virtual reality? The Boost VC team explains new applications beyond gaming.

Jeff Wasson is Partner at Boost VC. Jeff is a 3X entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Jeff was a founder of TravelNow.com, which as CEO he took public then sold to Hotels.com for $50 Million in cash when he was 27. After exiting the travel technology world in 2010, and taking a two and half year hiatus to travel the world with his wife and two daughters, he remerged ready to find the next big thing. An early investor in Boost VC, Jeff is now a General Partner with the firm that is chasing the two most disruptive technologies of our time, blockchain and virtual reality. With 15+ years of operational experience from startup to sale, Jeff has seen if not all of it, most of it, having raised millions in capital and having employed hundreds during his tenure. An overlapping 15+ years of personally investing in early stage companies has given Jeff the startup experience from another lens. Jeff has worked on every continent except Antarctica, and brings to bear the global perspective needed in today’s world. At Boost VC, Jeff leads the VR efforts and is responsible for deal sourcing across all segments, investment decisions, working with portfolio CEOs, and expanding the Boost VC brand.

Can artists thrive in a startup-style incubator? Julia Kaganskiy discusses her experience as director of NEW INC.

Julia Kaganskiy is a curator, editor and cultural producer focused on art and technology.

She is currently director of the New Museum’s art, technology and design incubator, scheduled to open at 231 Bowery in summer 2014.

Previously she was global editor of The Creators Project, an international arts initiative from VICE and Intel dedicated to showcasing the ways technology is enabling creativity in all its forms.

Julia is also the founder of New York Times-acclaimed #ArtsTech meetup, a monthly event series exploring the intersection of art and technology. Previously, she was co-founder and curator of Blue Box Gallery, a pop-up gallery dedicated to bringing New Media art to a rotating host of alternative urban spaces.

Julia is passionate about technology’s potential as an artistic medium as well as its ability to increase access to and engagement with the arts.

In 2011, Julia was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology and a finalist for the World Technology Network award in the Arts.

What can businesses learn from the arts? Amy Whitaker explains “art thinking.”

In this clip, Amy explains how Warby Parker draws from the lessons of the art world in more than just the design of their glasses…

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Amy Whitaker is a writer, artist, and teacher working at the intersection of creativity, business, and everyday life. She holds an MBA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College London. She is an assistant professor in Visual Arts Administration at New York University, in the Steinhardt School. She is the author of Museum Legs, and her writing has appeared in Fast Company, the New York Post, the New York Times, Art21, Architectural Design, and The Millions. In 2013, she received the Sarah Verdone Writing Award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She lives in New York City. From 2015-2016, Amy was the New Museum Incubator’s first entrepreneur-in-residence.

Eric Villency tells the story of the Soul Cycle bike and his other innovative designs.

Eric currently serves as CEO of the Villency Design Group. Under his leadership the business has grown into a leading consumer product development company while maintaining it’s reputation for innovative furniture and interior design.

Villency has been acclaimed as a visionary and his unique multidisciplinary approach to design has produced a prolific body of work that includes sports stadiums, airport terminals, hotels, large-scale art installations, fitness equipment, performance apparel, automotive design and restoration, furniture, LED lighting systems and electromechanical beauty products.

Villency has been the recipient of several design awards including the FIT “All Star Salute” award as well as the IFDA “design Industry” award. Well + Good called Villency “The wizard of wellness design” for his innovative work for many of the industry’s leading brands including designing Soul Cycle’s acclaimed signature indoor bike. Recently, Men’s Health called the interactive exercise bike Villency created for Peloton the “best Cardio Machine on the planet ” in their annual fitness awards issue for 2015. He appears frequently as a design expert on national television in addition to authoring numerous articles on the subject. Eric has also lectured at FIT and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He currently lives in New York with his son Ronan.

Tommy Stadlen on Polaroid’s reinvention for the social media age.

In this clip, Tommy explains what is unique about the Polaroid brand, and how his team set about developing a modern take on these storied ideas.

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Tommy Stadlen, Co-Founder of Polaroid Swing, is a technology entrepreneur and former McKinsey consultant with global experience advising leading companies on strategy. He previously worked for Barack Obama on his first presidential campaign. Tommy is the best-selling author of ‘Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically With Society’, written with former BP CEO Lord Browne. He is a regular speaker on business and technology. Tommy graduated with First Class honors from Oxford. He also holds an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics.

What will the next 10,000 business plans in Silicon Valley look like? Kevin Kelly explains.

In this clip, Kevin illustrates two different visions of our A.I. future, by looking at what happened in the world of competitive chess after Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov…

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For over thirty years Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, has been one of the most far-sighted participants in and reporters on the culture of technology. As David Pogue (Yahoo Tech) explains, “anyone can claim to be a prophet, a fortune teller, or a futurist, and plenty of people do. What makes Kevin Kelly different is that he’s right.” In THE INEVITABLE: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kelly explains the changes we can expect to see in the next thirty years and how these changes will impact every facet of our lives.

How do you engage customers and employees for new ideas? Doug Collins talks crowdsourcing.

Doug Collins serves as an innovation architect. He helps organizations such as The Estee Lauder Companies, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, The Procter & Gamble Company, and Reed Elsevier navigate the fuzzy front end of innovation. Doug develops approaches, creates forums, and structures engagements whereby people can convene to explore the critical questions facing the enterprise. He helps people assign economic value to the ideas and to the collaboration that result. As an author, Doug explores ways in which people can apply the practice of collaborative innovation in his series Innovation Architecture: A New Blueprint for Engaging People through Collaborative Innovation. His bi-weekly column appears in the publication Innovation Management. Doug serves on the board of advisors for Frost & Sullivan’s Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL). Doug’s latest book, a business narrative on how one company navigates the Digital Age by applying collaborative innovation, was published in the fall of 2014. Doug works as senior practice leader and Vice President, Innovation Architecture, at social innovation company Spigit, part of Mindjet, Inc. He focuses on helping clients realize their potential for leadership by pursuing and perfecting their practice of collaborative innovation.