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House of Blues
September 20, 2010 - 5:30 PM
Hosted by one of the most innovative music and entertainment venues in Chicago, the House of Blues, this event will feature live music, guest speakers, and the opportunity to mingle with some of the best and brightest minds in the Chicago area. Chicago Innovation Award nominees, sponsors, media partners, judges, past winners and special friends will be on hand to take part in the festivities
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Kellogg School of Management
Executive Education Course
September 28, 2010 - 8:00 AM
Hosted by one of the top business schools in the world, this event will feature expert Kellogg faculty that teach the practical skills of innovation, including Mohan Sawhney, Tom Kuczmarski and James Conley. A special panel of past Chicago Innovation Award winners has also been assembled for the event including Chris Gladwin, CEO and Founder of Cleversafe, Dan Brown, Founder of LoggerHead Tools, Kathy Tholin, CEO of the Center for Neighborhood Technology and more to be announced.
Join us for this stimulating day of insights and innovation from some of today's brightest minds as we continue to celebrate the creative spirit of the Chicago region.
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Goodman Theatre
November 1, 2010 - 5:00 PM
The time has come, once again, to celebrate the creative spirit of innovation throughout the Chicago area. We are pleased to invite you and a guest to the annual Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony on Monday, Nov. 1st at the Goodman Theatre.
This year, the Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony will honor our region's most innovative new products and services. The winning organizations may be large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit, high-tech, low-tech or no-tech, but they are all tied together by their commitment to innovation.
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Maggiano’s – Old Orchard
December 15, 2010 - 5:00 PM
SIM In The Suburbs: The Excitement of Innovation and Chicago's Leaders. A paneled discussion with four of this year’s Chicago Innovation Award winners, true innovators that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response, achieve financial success, and improve people’s lives.
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The Standard Club
January 13, 2011 - 11:00 AM
Innovation thought leader Tom Kuczmarski hosts the Business Marketing Association’s first Marketing Innovators Luncheon Seminar. The co-founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards and three of the awards program’s 2010 winners—all b-to-b companies—will engage in a panel discussion and show how developing solutions to customer needs enabled them to deliver value to their clients and drive growth, even in a major recession.
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Boka Restaurant
March 14, 2011 - 5:30 PM
"Unleashing the Leader Within You," hosted by Gilt City on Monday. During this special talk, you'll be challenged to think differently about leadership as Tom describes his new qualities that are changing the way we lead and succeed.
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Landmark Grill + Lounge
Insider's Look at the Year Ahead
June 7, 2011 - 5:30 PM
To celebrate the start of the 10th annual Chicago Innovation Awards, we cordially invite you and a guest to attend the Chicago Innovation Awards Kick-Off Cocktail Reception. Hosted by our friends at Boka Restaurant Group, this VIP gathering will be an insider’s look at all the exciting new events and activities that the Chicago Innovation Awards have planned this year to celebrate the creative spirit of the Chicago region. We have reached capacity for this event. If you would like to be added to the wait-list, please email bryan@chicagoinnovationawards.com
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Google’s downtown Chicago office
July 26, 2011 - 5:30 PM
To celebrate the rich history of the Chicago Innovation Awards, we will hold the Past Winners Showcase on Tuesday, July 26th. Hosted by one of the most innovative companies of the past decade, Google, this event will honor organizations that have been recipients of the Chicago Innovation Awards since its inception in 2002. A special panel of some of the most successful Chicago Innovation Award winners has been assembled for this intimate gathering to speak about innovation and share stories of success with today’s innovators. Read more about the members of the panel here, which includes:
Paula Fasseas
Founder
PAWS |
Pete Kadens
President and Co-Founder
SoCore Energy |
Jai Shekhawat
CEO and Founder
Fieldglass |
John Vasijl
Former Chief Technology Officer
Chicago Transit Authority |
Dennis Frare
Consultant
Disney Institute (special guest) |
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Due to limited space, this event has reached capacity. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email bryan@chicagoinnovationawards.com. We will also be streaming this event live on our website for those we are not able to get in.
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The Museum of Broadcast Communications
August 4, 2011 - 8:30 AM
Introducing a new event to the Chicago Innovation Awards calendar: Media Day. Last year, we learned that gaining awareness in the marketplace is the #1 challenge faced by Chicago’s innovators. This year, we’ll be hosting a panel discussion and media workshop with leading media and advertising experts to help Chicago innovators navigate and capitalize on the ever-changing media landscape. Click here to read more about the panelists.
If you do not plan on attending the entire day-long program, please let us know in the registration form's "Special Instructions" field if you will only be attending the morning session (8:30am - 1:15pm) or afternoon session (1:30pm - 4:30pm) so we can guarantee your reservation.
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9:00am-10:15am – Editorial Content.
Panelists include:
Dan Miller
Co-founder,
Chicago Innovation Awards;
Moderator of Media Day |
Michael Arndt
Managing Editor,
Crain's |
Sandra Guy
Business Reporter/Columnist,
Chicago Sun-Times |
Eric Benderoff
Tech PR, Burson-Marsteller; and
Former technology reporter,
Chicago Tribune |
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10:30am-11:45am - Marketing/Advertising.
Panelists include:
Matthew Saleski
Vice President of Marketing/Business Development,
Chicago Sun-Times |
Greg Green
Director of Agency Strategy,
Google |
Cher Ames
Director of Marketing and Promotions,
WBBM Newsradio 780 |
Joe White
Chicago Sales Manager,
Titan |
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Noon-1:15pm - Social Media Strategies.
| Lunch with keynoter David Armano, Executive Vice President, Global Innovation & Integration at Edelman, who will discuss the power of social media and how to use it effectively. |
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1:30pm-4:30pm – Crafting a Message
| Tom Thomson, a leading expert from the Disney Institute will discuss Disney's world-famous approach to inspiring customers through creativity and story-telling, and how you can do the same. |
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House of Blues
September 19, 2011 - 5:30 PM
We are excited to announce that we received a record-breaking number of nominations for this year's Chicago Innovation Awards! With more than 400 organizations submitting nominations for their new products and services, it is a true testament that innovation is thriving in America's heartland. To celebrate these organizations, we will be hosting the Nominee Reception on September 19th, at the House of Blues. This event will also feature special remarks from two of Chicago's movers-and-shakers:
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| John Barron
Publisher, Chicago Sun-Times;
Senior Vice President of News and Editorial,
Sun-Times Media |
John Tolva
Chief Technology Officer,
City of Chicago |
In addition, we'll have Boomshaka, Northwestern's premier drum, dance, and rhythm ensemble with us as special guest performers to show us the creative spirit found in some of Chicago's most talented students.
Your ticket price ($50 value) for the Nominee Reception is complimentary and generously covered by our sponsors. However, we welcome you to make a donation ($50 or any other amount) if you would like to support the Chicago Innovation Awards Scholarship Fund, using the PayPal button on the right.
Due to limited space, this event has reached capacity. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email bryan@chicagoinnovationawards.com.
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Kellogg School of Management
September 27, 2011 - 8:00 AM
The Practical Innovator is an invitation-only day-long executive education program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Valued at $2,500, this one-day scholarship is provided, free-of-charge, to one representative from each of the Top 75 nominees. The nominees selected to participate in The Practical Innovator will also be invited to take part in the "People's Choice Award" voting later this month. Details of that will follow in the coming weeks.
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Hosted by Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, one of the world's foremost centers for executive education, The Practical Innovator will feature senior members of the Kellogg faculty that teach the practical skills of innovation, including: |
Mohan Sawhney
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Tom Kuczmarski
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James Conley
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A special panel discussion of past Chicago Innovation Award winners has also been assembled for the event including:
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Doug Busch
Vice President and General Manager, Global Fiber Optic Products Group
Molex
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Rebecca Smith
Vice President, Marketing,
Master Lock
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Eric Lunt
Co-Founder; FeedBurner;
CTO, BrightTag
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Rhon Daguro
CEO and Co-founder,
Touch Taste Technologies
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Dan Brown
Founder,
LoggerHead Tools |
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Other special guest speakers will include: |
Angelo Bufalino
Vedder Price
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Lisa Spahn
Disney Institute
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The Harris Theater
November 8, 2011 - 5:00 PM
For the 10th consecutive year, the Chicago Innovation Awards will celebrate our region's most innovative new products and services. We invite you and a guest to join us. The winning organizations we reveal may be large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit, high tech, low tech or no tech, but they are all tied together by their commitment to innovation. The invite code is celebration
The 10th annual Chicago Innovation Awards has reached capacity! If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please contact bryan@chicagoinnovationawards.com
Keynote speakers:
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| William “Beau” Wrigley, Jr.
This year's Distinguished Innovator Award will be presented to William "Beau" Wrigley, the fourth-generation leader of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Beau began his career with the company in 1985 and became Chairman, President and CEO in 1999. During his leadership, the company became a recognized global leader in confections, grew from $2 billion to $6 billion in annual sales and expanded its reach to consumers in 180 countries. After Wrigley was acquired by privately held Mars, Incorporated in 2008, Beau held the role of Executive Chairman of the Wrigley Company and played a key role in the successful integration of the companies through 2009.
Currently, Beau serves on the Senior Advisory Council of BDT Capital Partners, a Chicago-based merchant bank that provides long-term capital and advisory services to family owned companies and entrepreneurs. He is a Trustee of Conservation International and Co-Chair of their Ocean Health Council, a member of the National Geographic Society’s Council of Advisors, and serves on the boards of The Economic Club of Chicago and the North Shore University Healthcare System. He also is a member of the Business Council and the Chicago Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Beau is a 1985 graduate of Duke University with a B.A. in Economics and attended the Wharton School of Business Advanced Management Program in 1994. Additionally, he was in the 1997 inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program. |
Miles White
This year's Visionary Award will be presented to Miles White, Chairman and CEO of Abbott, the global pharmaceutical and medical products company that has won more awards than any other organization in the Chicago Innovation Awards ten year history. Mr. White also serves as a director of McDonald's Corporation, Caterpillar Inc. and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He serves as Chairman of the Dean's Advisory Board at Kellogg School of Management and The Culver Educational Foundation. He is former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Economic Club of Chicago, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. |
 Second City, this year's Spirit of Innovation Award recipient, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary as the world's premier comedy club and school of improvisation, and will be on hand to provide entertainment throughout the evening. |
 This milestone 10th anniversary ceremony will coincide with the release of a new book, Innovating... Chicago-Style: How Local Innovators are Building the National Economy. The book features the Chicago region's greatest innovators of the past decade telling their inspiring stories of success. With a foreword written by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and praise from over 35 of Chicago's business and civic leaders, Innovating...Chicago-Style stands as a permanent record of the work that has transformed Chicago into a national hub of innovation over the past ten years. You can purchase the book now through the event registration process and pick up your copy at the event. |
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The Executives’ Club Tech Summit: Innovation’s Impact on the Bottom Line
June 1, 2011 – 2:15 PM |
| On June 1st, The Executives’ Club of Chicago will host the Technology Leadership Summit, in commemoration of their Centennial Season. As part of this special day-long summit, The Executives’ Club has asked the Chicago Innovation Awards to host the grand finale event, Innovation’s Impact on the Bottom Line. For this event, Tom Kuczmarski, Co-Founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards will moderate a panel consisting of past Chicago Innovation Award winners and sponsors. The panel will discuss how to leverage technology in order to enhance business models to produce products, services, jobs and profitability.
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