Watch Live Webcast Tuesday, June 23: State of Innovation Summit

WASHINGTON, DC - The State of Innovation Summit: Moving Beyond Lab and Boardroom will be webcast live Tuesday, June 23, 8:30 - 4:30 Eastern from the Newseum in downtown Washington, DC. Click here for a copy of the agenda.

Go to one of the following sites to watch live:

Council on Competitiveness www.compete.org
Seed Magazine www.seedmagazine.com/

This interactive, national conference will feature the nation's leading CEOs, university presidents, inventors, and researchers.

Participants and attendees are invited to join the interactive conversation via the Twitter hashtag #sois.

What:
The State of Innovation Summit is an interactive, national conference that will identify how to leverage the convergence of science and business for enhanced U.S. competitiveness. Hosted by the Council on Competitiveness and Seed, the nation's leading CEOs, university presidents, inventors and researchers will address the role of cross-disciplinary collaboration, public policy, and scientific discovery in advancing innovation in U.S. business.

Who:
Participants include:

• Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art
• Adam Bly, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group
• George Campbell Jr., President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
• Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
• Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Chief Research and Development Officer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Charles O. Holliday Jr., Chairman of DuPont and the Council on Competitiveness
• Ray O. Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Neri Oxman, Presidential Research Fellow, Design Computation, MIT
• David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research; and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
• Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
• Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness

Go to the Summit website to see a complete list of participants and their biographies.

Where:
Newseum Knight Conference Center
555 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC

When:
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Go to the Summit website to see the agenda for the day.

ABOUT THE COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS--CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders working to ensure U.S. prosperity.

ABOUT SEED MEDIA GROUP--Seed Media Group is inspired by the potential of science to improve the state of the world, and makes media and technology to help realize that potential.