Home | Ideas Matter

Straight Talk

Learn first-hand from leading experts why ideas matter, which ones matter most, and how they impact our lives.

Hear what inventors, entrepreneurs, creators, executives, educators and celebrities are saying.

QuickTakes: What leaders are saying
about why ideas matter

A Path to the Future

Arlyne Simon is a Solutions Architect for Intel’s Life Sciences Group who invented a blood test transplant rejection in cancer patients.

She has designed syringes, supercomputers, and ultrasound machines. Her children’s book series, “Abby Invents,” is widely read and loved.

Competitive Advantage

Dan Brown is a successful entrepreneur, award-winning inventor, educator and innovation advocate.

He is named inventor on more than 100 U.S. and international patents and winner of 10 international design awards. He teaches at the Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors.

Thinking Required

Jonathan Taplin is a celebrated author, movie producer and former Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC.

He developed the first video streaming-on-demand platform and produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, “Mean Streets,” starring a young Robert DeNiro.

Building Bridges

Ideas are the foundation that civilization and economies are built on.

The ability to share ideas, inventions and creative expression openly, without fear they will be stolen or misunderstood, is part of an American tradition written into the U.S. Constitution.

Ideas are for building upon.

QuickTakes: What leaders are saying about why ideas matter

Arlyne Simon is a Solutions Architect for Intel’s Life Sciences Group who invented a blood test transplant rejection in cancer patients. She has designed syringes, supercomputers, and ultrasound machines. Her children’s book series, “Abby Invents,” is widely read and loved.

Jonathan Taplin is a celebrated author, movie producer and former Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC. He developed the first video streaming-on-demand platform and produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, “Mean Streets,” starring a young Robert DeNiro.

Building Bridges

Ideas Matter

QuickTakes: What leaders are saying
about why ideas matter

Arlyne Simon is a Solutions Architect for Intel’s Life Sciences Group who invented a blood test transplant rejection in cancer patients.

She has designed syringes, supercomputers, and ultrasound machines. Her children’s book series, “Abby Invents,” is widely read and loved.

Jonathan Taplin is a celebrated author, movie producer and former Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC.

He developed the first video streaming-on-demand platform and produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, “Mean Streets,” starring a young Robert DeNiro.