Saturday, November 07, 2009
International Meetings in November
I'll be reporting personally from the 4th Iberoamerican Innovation Congress in Santimago, Chile, next week. Congress 1 was in Puebla, 2 in Monterrey, and 3 in Guadalajara, so it will be a big adventure to move the meeting into South America. I'm looking forward to meeting many people I have only known through e-mail, and many new innovation thinkers.
The European TRIZ Association's TRIZ Futures Conference is exploring new frontiers this week: geographically, in Timisoara, Romania, and structurally, using a single session for the entire conference. The conference is at Politehnica University--see http://www.upt.ro/ for some of the history and current information on this engineering and cultural site.
The theme of the conference is "Innovative product design" and there is a strong mix of academic, consulting, and industrial practioners reporting on their research in many areas of TRIZ. The program, with abstracts, is at
http://www.eng.upt.ro/trizfuture2009/files/Conference%20program%20with%20abstracts.pdf
Reading the abstracts shows that ETRIA has succeeded in one of its goals--by moving the conference to different universities, cities, and countries, they expose many faculty and students to the TRIZ philosophy and concepts. A significant number of this year's papers are by people who first learned about TRIZ this way.
We look forward to having first-hand reports from some of the participants in the TRIZ Journal Commentary column in the next few weeks, and pictures will be posted on the ETRIA portal, http://www.etria.net.
The European TRIZ Association's TRIZ Futures Conference is exploring new frontiers this week: geographically, in Timisoara, Romania, and structurally, using a single session for the entire conference. The conference is at Politehnica University--see http://www.upt.ro/ for some of the history and current information on this engineering and cultural site.
The theme of the conference is "Innovative product design" and there is a strong mix of academic, consulting, and industrial practioners reporting on their research in many areas of TRIZ. The program, with abstracts, is at
http://www.eng.upt.ro/trizfuture2009/files/Conference%20program%20with%20abstracts.pdf
Reading the abstracts shows that ETRIA has succeeded in one of its goals--by moving the conference to different universities, cities, and countries, they expose many faculty and students to the TRIZ philosophy and concepts. A significant number of this year's papers are by people who first learned about TRIZ this way.
We look forward to having first-hand reports from some of the participants in the TRIZ Journal Commentary column in the next few weeks, and pictures will be posted on the ETRIA portal, http://www.etria.net.
