The Talk: Pondering Creativity Bios: Ross Kimbarovsky is an experienced intellectual property lawyer with more than thirteen years of experience counseling U.S. and international clients in complex disputes involving a wide range of intellectual property issues, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, licensing and e-commerce. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and before the World Intellectual Property Organization. Ross emigrated with his family to the U.S. from Kiev, Ukraine. He holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Illinois. Mike Samson has more than 20 years of experience in the creative field, as a senior manager, consultant and producer in both the publishing and film/television industries. He began his career as a Photo Editor at New York Magazine and his work in Hollywood includes numerous films such as Wall Street, Bull Durham, and Men in Black II, as well as television series, including New York Undercover and Third Watch. Mike has a BA in Mass Media from the University of Illinois and a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

1. Pondering creativity

2. everyone’s got it

4. the bald one.

5. the other one.

7. creativity (kr!-quot;#tivit!)

8. who the hell are
these guys,
anyhow?

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12. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is pronounced
“me-high chick-sent-me-high”

13. Thomas Friedman is
pronounced “täm!s frquot;dm!n”

14. here’s what we know

15. industries are toppling

16. napster killed the Music
Industry

17. wordpress killed the
NY Times

18. iStock killed the photo
agencies

19. crowdSPRING will kill
the ad agencies?

20. are you next?

21. don’t sit around
thinking you are
invincible

22. the business of
creativity will never be
the same

23. whether you believe
this or not

24. we once were lost

27. 337 entries

28. 80 designers

29. 36 countries

31. the lessons learned

32. the end