Best Ideas of 2012

This year ImageThink visualized big ideas at 159 public and private events across North America. Topics ranged from burgeoning computer con-sciousness and social media behaviors, to the future of American innova-tion and cloud computing.

Our team of artists listened, synthesized the information, and created a vi-sual summary as the talks unfolded in real-time. What you’ll find on these pages are the results of those efforts — a selection of the best ideas Im-ageThink scribed this year.

We hope you’ll enjoy this recap of what we think were the most insightful, smart, and fresh talks given at public conferences of 2012.

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Manuel Lima, senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft Bing, on the Power of Networks at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute in Troy, New York.


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Michael Jones of Google Earth at the Atlantic Innovation Summit, Washington D.C.



Samuel Palmisano, former CEO of IBM, talks with Steve Clemons, Washington editor-at-large of the Atlantic, the Atlantic Innovation Summit, Washington D.C.



Jim McNerney, CEO of Boeing, in conversation with Ed Luce of the Financial Times at the Atlantic Innovation Summit, Washington D.C.



Eric Ries, author of the Lean Startup, at Khosla Ventures CEO Conference 2012, Sausalito, California.



Author and speaker Seth Godin’s talk “the Art and Science of Making Things” at the World Maker Faire, New York City.



Entrepreneur Steve Case and Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO and co-founder of LivingSocial, in conversation about entrepreneurship at the SXSW Interactive festival, Austin, Texas.



Author and journalist Virginia Heffernan speaks on the pleasures of the internet and the digital life at Brightworks Innovation Day in Toronto, Canada.



“Future of Network Giants: Air Traffic to Cloud Computing” — a panel discussion at the Atlantic Big Science Summit in San Jose, California.



Visionary Ray Kurzweil and writer Lev Grossman of TIME Magazine in a conversation titled “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit,”

SXSW Interactive festival, Austin, Texas.



Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case on “Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface” at the SXSW Interactive festival, Austin, Texas.



Mason Peck, chief technologist at NASA, speaking on the future of space technology at World Maker Faire, New York City.



Panel discussion on “Mapping New Frontiers in Space” at the Atlantic Big Science Summit in San Jose, California.



Dr. Daniel Kraft of FutureMed talking about “the Future of Health” at Khosla Ventures CEO Conference 2012, Sausalito, California.



Salim Ismail of Singularity University at MLove ConFestival in Monterey, California.



Amy Jo Martin on “How Women are Using Social Media to Innovate” at espnW Summit in Tucson, Arizona.



Conversation about the transformation of marketing at IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Orlando, Florida.



Author Robert Burton’s talk “On Being Certain Even When You’re Wrong” at Khosla Ventures CEO Conference 2012, Sausalito, California.



Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker in conversation at SXSW Interactive festival, Austin, Texas.



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