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Sponsors
Applied Brilliance is made possible through the generous support of these leading brands:

Steelcase

Mohawk

Comitti

Wathne


Junior Fellows Sponsors
Participation in Applied Brilliance for a select group of architects and designers under the age of 35 is generously underwritten by these sponsorship partners:

Teknion


Media Partners

Interior Design


In Association With

USGBC

contract


Educational Providers

IDCEC

AIA



Applied Brilliance is the architecture and design industry's most innovative and influential executive-level conference. Applied Brilliance is hopeful, optimistic and the event for design professionals interested in thinking more expansively and creatively as they design how we work, live and play.

WHAT
This annual two-day thought leadership event promotes creativity and innovation through an original interdisciplinary approach that reveals critical shifts in cultural trends. It is designed as a non-commercial, powerful collaboration among attendees and world-class thought leaders in identifying the most important emerging trends and issues that affect us professionally and personally.

HOW
Applied Brilliance inspires and informs by creating a lively dialogue among presenters and attendees who work together in a series of interactive panels and dialogues to explore how the big ideas and big shifts presented at the conference can be applied to architecture and design. It is supported by leading industry brands, who work alongside attendees and speakers exploring innovative approaches to solving problems.

WHEN
Applied Brilliance 2009 will be staged October 13th thorough 15th, during the height of the fall foliage season at the historic Sagamore Hotel overlooking Lake George in beautiful Bolton Landing, located in New York's Adirondack Park, 55 miles north of Albany.

WHY
If you depend on creativity and resilience for success, Applied Brilliance is essential to your future. We live in a world undergoing change at unprecedented speed. Whether it's emergence of new of global economies, the collapse of traditional systems, living in an information world without borders, keeping up with high velocity trends or reinventing how business is done, change is unleashing the need for applied brilliance.


Applied Brilliance is an official provider of
Learning Units from AIA and CEU's from IDCEC.



Board of Advisors

Ros Brandt,
President, BrandtResources

Mark Kingwell,
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto

Reed Kroloff,
Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum; Campus Architect

Julie Lasky,
Editor, Change Observer

Lelei Lelaulu,
Development Entrepreneur

Dr. Jim Taylor,
Futurist; Vice Chairman, The Harrison Group


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