On February 26-27, the 2nd annual Open Innovation Conference was held at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Darin Eich was there for Open Innovators and blogged about the conference. To roundup, a list of Darin’s posts:

• Attending the Open Innovation Conference
• Live from the Open Innovation Conference
• Great day at the conference
• Insights And Themes From Presentations
• Sources of Innovation: Where do ideas & innovation come from?
• How Really Big Companies Open Innovate
• The Need for Innovation Teams and Internal Consultants within Organizations
• Becoming an Open Innovation Partner with Large Companies

Thanks Darin! I hope to be there too next year.

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I will be attending the Plugg Conference on Wednesday, March 19 in Brussels. Plugg is a one day conference focused on European start-ups in the Web / Mobile 2.0 field. In combination with an impressive list of speakers, there will be a place for 20 start-ups to showcase their ventures and realizations. One of them will walk away with the Plugg Start-Up of the Year Award. I will be interviewing during the conference together with Nick De Mey from MouseOver.be. The interviews will be posted on Plugg.eu.

I’ll be journeying to Las Vegas later this month to attend the Open Innovation Conference from Marcus Evans. I’ll be blogging for OpenInnovators.net while I’m there. This conference should provide the opportunity to gather a wide variety of perspectives on how open innovation can be integrated within various stages of innovation systems. I presented with BrainReactions at the last Marcus Evans innovation conference in October and found it an excellent event to have conversations, hear perspectives, and bring back innovation theory and practice to help organizations. So, I’m excited to attend this one and blog about it on this site. This conference will be held February 25-27 at The Venetian and will feature presentations from innovation professionals from a wide variety of industries. Presenters will come from throughout different organizations, including:

• Procter & Gamble
• Avery Dennison
• GE
• General Mills
• United Parcel Service
• Kraft Foods
• IBM Corporation
• Johnson & Johnson
• Circuit City Stores, Inc
• The Clorox Company
• L’Oreal, Inc
• Nortel Networks Corporation
• PepsiCo, Inc
• Weyerhaeuser