In order to be successful long-term, every company needs to develop a culture of innovation. Make creative destruction part of your DNA. Fabienne Münch is the Director of the Ideation Office at Herman Miller, a design driven company that has the culture and DNA down in spades.

After a thousand years of going around and around in circles, Dawn White pursued a new direction to harvest wind energy. It’s one of the best examples of orthogonal thinking and leap frog innovation. Dawn’s team didn’t try to improve the existing technology. They blew it up and started with a blank sheet.

You’ll be hearing more from Accio Energy.
Accio Energy is making distributed wind energy systems scalable, reliable, and affordable with Aerovoltaic energy systems that directly convert wind energy to electricity without any moving parts.  On the web at http://accioenergy.com

“Time is our currency” A great story teller with an important message, Dr. Gary Gabel was our first speaker at TEDxDetroit.

A short intro for session one at TEDxDetroit on powering the world’s economy and telling Detroit’s next great story.