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STEM of an IDEA

“STEM is an acronym you can see and hear all around the world as the intellectual ad campaign for “Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.” Indeed STEM is an important factor in achieving innovations today, but it’s only half of the puzzle — there needs to be a humanizing force to any invention for it to become relevant and important. What’s missing is the raison d’etre of a STEM outcome. That could only come from an IDEA-based approach — “Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art.” In this new century, whole-innovation will emerge naturally from the marriage of STEM together with IDEA.”

While we would love to see Ryerson put on some more events in the heart of TED that exposes people to different points of view on the ideas they study everyday, as broad as our themes are for this year’s Connect IT Conference, there’s still a lot more explore.

This year we want to give people an introduction to looking at the future of business and innovation in a large part through the lens of Design and Technology. Even then though, there are still 6 different themes to explore.