You may be familiar with TED. Aspen Ideas Festival. The Nantucket Project. EG, Skoll and several others, which take place around the country and the world. The Imagine Solutions Conference is a thought leader conference built from the blueprint used by TED, Aspen Ideas and others. (In fact, Imagine Solutions partners with both Aspen Ideas and TED.) However, the question remains, what exactly is..

Each year is unique, but every year is exciting! You feel the energy. You sense the anticipation. You are surrounded by the low roar of conversation as 650 people of many different stripes gather together for one extraordinary day, with a single purpose in mind: to learn. Imagine Solutions is a world-class, nationally recognized thought leader conference, which, for the past decade, has been a for..

Our speakers and subject matter are global—but the opportunities they present and the connections we nurture are local. Like most Thought Leader Conferences, Imagine Solutions has strong local connections. We are managed and operated by local community leaders, and funded by a locally backed public 501(c)(3) foundation established in 2008. Our sense of community service is always front and..

Every year, you can count on hearing from the foremost experts in various aspects of the medical field at the Imagine Solutions Conference. They are visionaries and experts from our country’s leading hospitals, medical schools, academic centers, non-profit organizations and healthcare organizations. The goal of Imagine Solutions is to keep our attendees informed about cutting edge research, new ..

Many of the biggest ideas, top experts and most critical issues of our time are in the realm of “Science and Technology.” What will science teach us, what will technology look like in the coming decades and how will it affect the way we live? Will the future bring a world of more productivity, more energy, and more equality—or the profound threat of nonexistent privacy, ecological collapse, ..

Social Entrepreneurs are problem solvers and change makers. When they see a problem, an injustice, an unfilled need—they don’t ask, “Why doesn’t someone do something about this?” They simply step up and do it. Men and women who possess this vision, leadership and creativity have been featured year after year at the Imagine Solutions Conference. Imagine Solutions has partnered with the..

When you come to the Imagine Solutions website, you see two distinct categories of events listed: our annual one-day Conference, and our individual topic Seminars. Even if you’ve been to the Conference sometime during our 10-year history, you may not recognize the Seminars. There’s a good reason for that: they’re new! We hosted our inaugural Imagine Solutions Seminar in April 2019, welcoming..

The Imagine Solutions Conference was born a decade ago out of a notion that if we could be proactive about bringing together the world’s leading experts on topics ranging from the arts to business to science to social good, and a few hundred audience members with either the means or the inclination or both to act on some of these experts’ ideas, then consider the results! Thought leader confer..

It starts as soon as, or even sometimes before, each year’s Imagine Solutions Conference has ended: speaker selection for the following year. Bringing in approximately 20 nationally and internationally renowned experts is no small feat. How does it work? Read on for insights into Imagine Solutions’ speaker identification methodology. On occasion, we will have been in talks with a potential ..

If you visit the Events page on the Imagine Solutions website, you’ll first see the words, “ideas at the edges.” Far from just a catchy tagline, this is an ethos we embrace. Consider how our speakers confirmed for the February 24, 2020 Imagine Solutions Conference embody that notion. A return speaker for 2020 will be Mike Gunton. Mike is a BBC producer who travels the world telling essent..

A packed audience in the Community School of Naples’ G&L Theatre on November 12 was privy to a detailed presentation from RAND Corporation expert Timothy Heath on the subject of ‘Understanding China’ as part of the ongoing Imagine Solutions Seminar series. Heath has dedicated his career to studying and understanding the underlying motivators, trends, cultural and political priorities, and hi..

Breakthrough is one of those words in the English language that manages to essentially say what it means, implying the breaking through of some obstacle or barrier. Less simple is to achieve meaningful breakthrough when it comes to the world’s most pressing questions. At the Imagine Solutions Conference, a celebration of big ideas and the thought leaders who turn them into action, breakthrough i..

At Imagine Solutions, we like food for thought. That can be figuratively, in the form of listening to those who are the very best at what they do talk about their accomplishments and the tangible ways in which they’ve changed the world. This is the sort of intellectual nourishment we get from attending our thought leader Conference and Seminars. This is the sustenance we rely on, trusting th..

If you asked a room of people, have you heard of cryptocurrency, and do you understand its function and impact, likely most everyone would answer in the affirmative to the first question, and a lesser number would concur with the latter. If you asked the same room, have you heard of blockchain, and do you understand it, the rates of response might be a little fuzzier, though still skewing towards ..

Aside from the inspiration and intellectual expansion, what are the reasons to attend a thought leader conference like Imagine Solutions? We can make all the arguments in the world for why we think it’s a good and worthy expenditure of your time. But what are the key takeaways for you as a business, nonprofit, or community leader? Something we regularly promote as a benefit is the networking..

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N. Scott Adzick, MD, MMM, FACS, FAAP, is Surgeon-in-Chief of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the founder and director of the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. Dr. Adzick is the C. Everett Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery and also serves as CHOP's Director of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, as well as Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics a..

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