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8 Idea-Packed Sessions

REIMAGINING LEARNING

NewProfit is an initiative designed to support schools and communities
in the creation of learning environments that unleash individual promise and
creativity in all children. NewProfit has raised over $1 billion to date to scale
collaborative solutions. Hear from five thought leaders who are transforming
how America educates its children.

BREAKTHROUGHS

Amazing innovations in
science and technology

• Daniel Kish, an expert

in human echolocation and
President of World Access for
the Blind

• Hugh Herr, coined the

“Leader of the Bionic Age” by
TIME magazine; directs the
Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab

• Alan Russell, Founder, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• IBM Watson – the application of Artificial Intelligence
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Three visionaries share their amazing achievements in
unconventional disciplines.

• Juan Enriquez, author of Evolving Ourselves:

How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are
Changing Life on Earth

• Alvy Ray Smith, Co-founder, PIXAR Animation

Studios; created digital animation storytelling
technology

• Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotanist and author of Tales of a Shaman’s

Apprentice; discovered 15 undocumented tribes in the Amazon region

ADVENTURER

Meet the world’s most traveled polar explorer!
• Doug Stoup has led 23 expeditions to the North and South Poles, more
than any other adventurer.

For tickets or information about the 2016 Imagine Solutions Conference, visit
www.imaginesolutionsconference.com or call 214.205.2274.

Life in Naples | January 2016