The BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit will be held on October 15-16, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island. With co-hosts Bruce Nussbaum and Bill Taylor at the helm, BIF-4 promises to be the best BIF summit yet.

More conversation than conference, BIF-4 will bring together many of today’s most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to reveal the secrets of innovation success through personal storytelling.

Some of this year's line-up includes:

Marc Ecko
Ecko's passion for impacting youth culture is today represented in everything from publishing to multimedia, and from fashion to philanthropy.

Jason Fried
Fried is the founder and CEO of 37signals. Fried is a passionate leader in the field of simple, clear and elegant web-based user interface design. He spearheaded the concept, design and development of Basecamp, 37signal's web-based project management tool for designers, freelancers and creative services firms.

Tony Hsieh
Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.com. Under his leadership, Zappos has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6 million in 2000 to $840 million in 2007 by focusing relentlessly on customer service.

Clay Shirky
Shirky is a writer, consultant and teacher who has spent years talking about the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

David R. Yaun
Yaun directs the IBM Corporation's worldwide internal and external communications programs related to innovation and technology leadership. He is the lead executive responsible for the company's annual Global Innovation Outlook program; manages the company's ground-breaking global "InnovationJam" program; oversees the Genographic Project, a joint research program with the National Geographic Society; and serves as an executive sponsor for IBM's "ThinkPlace" idea generation program.