The three-day Big Ideas Fest is an immersion into collaboration and design with the focus on inspiring and modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education.

Invent. Design. Discover. Share. This is the future of education today.

When and Where
December 6-9th, 2009
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Half Moon Bay, California
(The program begins Dec. 6th at 4:00pm, and ends Dec. 9th at 2:00pm)

Come immerse yourself in three extraordinary days of inspiring presentations.

Read about the "Action Collabs", in which we will work together to actually design and prototype real-world innovations in education. Action Collabs are small high-energy workshops that engage participants to focus on inventive ways to break down educational challenges and provide tools and exercises to brainstorm and develop viable solutions at school, state, and national levels.

Network with other dedicated education enthusiasts next to the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean.

And as a social media-inspired event, the Big Ideas Fest will itself be a platform for creating and capturing stories, performances, video, micro-blogging, podcasts, and so on. So come wired for action.

Confirmed speakers (click on image for speaker bio):

The inaugural Big Ideas Fest is the starting point for a movement that supports innovation in education at a time when the need to accelerate high-quality learning is truly essential for our country and our future. The goal of this unique three-day meeting of experts and creative doers and thinkers is to spotlight, challenge and change the ways in which education can be made relevant to learning in the post-industrial world. The goal is to increase relevance of education while placing learning at the front and center of all that we do (additional background about the event).

The worldwide economy has jolted all of us to attention, while our public and private institutions are faced with budget-cuts, hiring freezes, and uncertainty. As we know, education has always been our country's source of new ideas and wealth creation. That's why it's more important than ever that we address unmet needs in education.

Come be a part of the process of supercharging education during these tough times!