We’re excited with the addition of industry veteran David Sibbet to the facilitator group.  David is the founder of The Grove Consultants International, a full service organization development consulting firm located in the Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio of San Francisco. His personal consulting is focused on helping organizations and their leadership teams clarify and implement their strategic visions.

He works extensively with projects and organizations that cross sectors, geographies, and culture.  His highly interactive …

We’re very excited to announce the addition of Nigel Holmes to the VizThink ‘08 facilitators.  Nigel does explanation graphics.  He graduated from The Royal College of Art in 1966, and worked as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines in England until 1977, when Walter Bernard hired him to work at Time Magazine in New York.

As Graphics Director of Time, his pictorial explanations of complex subjects gained him many imitators and a few academic enemies. To …

We’re very excited to announce the addition of Eileen Clegg as a facilitator for the conference! We’ve known Eileen for years and have been a huge fan of her great work. Her hands on approach demonstrates one of the key features of the conference…real-world practice of visualization concepts.

Eileen is a visual journalist, book author and founder of the company Visual Insight, creating large-scale, real-time murals for organizations. She works with top leadership invoking visual language …

We’re very excited to announce the addition of Bob Horn to VizThink ‘08.  Bob is the author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century.  The landmark book, out of print until recently, has been republished and will be available for sale at the conference.

In addition, Bob is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. His pathbreaking book Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century is recently back …

As we design the conference, we’re trying to bring in people from a variety of disciplines that apply visual thinking techniques.  The networking and cross-pollination will provide tremendous insights and ideas for your work.  So far, we’ve added experts in information graphics and corporate communications.  Now, we’re very excited to add data visualization and analysis with our next facilitator, Stephen Few!

Stephen Few has worked for 25 years as an information technology innovator, teacher, and consultant. Today, as …

Our first advertisement, which can be found in the September issue of Business 2.0, should be just about ready to hit news stands.  Definitely go buy a copy!  Until then you can get a preview of the PDF right here:

Business 2.0 Ad for VizThink ‘08

We’re very excited about the announcements of facilitators for the conference.  There’s a great line up on the way.  We’ve actually chosen the term “facilitator” intentionally.  We’re not looking for speakers or presenters.  We’re looking for people who have a ton of experience and have a proven ability to help people not only understand the “what” of visualization, but also the “how” through hands on experiences.
No one exemplifies this better than our next facilitator, Dave …

Good news!  Registration for VizThink ‘08 is now open.  All of the details are available on the registration page of our website.  We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

We’ve spent the past six weeks getting all the logistics worked out for the new event.  We’re really excited about the possibilities.  However, we’re even more excited about the quality of content for the event.  Over the next few weeks, we’ll be announcing a steady flow of facilitators.  We’re gathering the best of the best in the industry to conduct hands on sessions and get insights into their latest work.
We’re really excited today to make …

We continue to move along quickly here at VizThink HQ.  There are lots of very exciting announcement coming in the next several weeks.  Be sure to check back frequently.  Registration opens in just one week on August 15th, 2007.  One of the most recent accomplishments is the new logo:

It’s featured in our first ad for the conference in the next issue of Business 2.0 which hits newsstands next week.  Be sure to check it out.