Each year BIF hosts a national gathering of amazing people from all walks of life to share their personal story. Now in its sixth year, the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit is much more a conversation than a conference. Over two days, more than two dozen people will take the stage and replace canned presentations with something personal. There are absolutely no panels or talking heads, no infomercials or powerpoints, just very personal stories from people who combine passion, creativity, smarts and discipline to get things done in new and valuable ways.

Each year BIF hosts a national gathering of amazing people from all walks of life to share their personal story. Now in its sixth year, the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit is much more a conversation than a conference. Over two days, more than two dozen people will take the stage and replace canned presentations with something personal. There are absolutely no panels or talking heads, no infomercials or powerpoints, just very personal stories from people who combine passion, creativity, smarts and discipline to get things done in new and valuable ways.

Grab a wireframe, a color palette, and a cocktail glass to mix it up with local user-experience pros. This is the fourth monthly gathering for this casual meetup of designers and UX nerds.

There'll be a few 10-minute show-and-tell talks as a few of us share projects, ideas, and dilemmas. Come share your ideas (or just listen in), and raise a glass to the burgeoning Providence design community.

Join PBN and our sponsors when we honor the winners of the 2010 Rhode Island Innovation Awards. The awards ceremony and dinner is Wednesday, September 22nd at the Bello Center on the campus of Bryant University. The dinner is catered by Russell Morin. Tickets are $85 and all inclusive.