Our Annual Forum
The vision of an annual “west coast” Forum dates back to the summer of 2000.  We had ideas to share and saw the role of a conference to help us expand a localized southern California thinking network into something much larger – an international thinking network.  In envisioning the Forum, we borrowed ideas from conferences we had attended and integrated them into the design of our event.  For example, we took the concept of a forum from the annual “Deming” conference in Cincinnati, the Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum, also known as OQPF.  Similarly, we borrowed the idea of a weekend event from the annual W. Edwards Deming Institute (WEDI) conference.  We also borrowed the idea of a low-cost event from the WEDI conference, and settled in on $250 as the registration fee for our first Forum in 2002.  To this weekend conference activity, we added two days (Thursday and Friday) of pre-conference seminars and workshops and defined the entire 4-day event, pre-conference plus conference, as our annual Forum.  The conference activities begin at 4pm on a Friday and end at noon on the following Sunday.

The design requirement for a low-cost entrance fee was achieved through the efforts of our founding members to work together, amongst themselves and with an alliance of “partners,” most of who were in a position to offer us pro-bono support.  For example, through a partnership with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (then a business unit of Boeing and now a business unit of United Technologies), we offer the two days of pre-conference seminars and workshops, onsite at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s offices in Canoga Park, California, at no fee to attendees.   Beginning in 2006, we began offering post-conference seminars and workshops as well.  We also owe a debt of gratitude to our speakers, both for our pre-conference and post-conference seminars and workshops and weekend conference, for participating without fee.  We are grateful to our speakers for agreeing to appear pro-bono, and are likewise proud to connect them with the members of our thinking network.

Forum Planning Team
Beginning with two dozen Forum planners in 2001, our team has since expanded each year to include over 40 volunteers on our 2007 Planning Team.  Most are located in the United States, from north to south and coast to coast, and we are joined by several teammates in the United Kingdom.  We are organized into specific roles, such as teams for program design, finance, marketing and communications, and logistics.  Other teams handle finance, our website, scholarships, sales, and registration.

Contact us at contact@in2in.org to find out how to join our Forum planning team.

Our Forums - Past, Present, and Future

Forum 2010
April 22-27, 2010
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)

Forum 2009
April 23-28, 2009
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)

Forum 2008 Home Page
Transforming My Space In2 OurSpace - Developing Our Uncommon Knowledge  
April 17-22, 2008
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Check out the Forum 2008 photo gallery and download the Forum brochure

Forum 2007 Home Page
Passion Flowing In2 Purposeful Action - Unleashing the Power of Us  
April 12-17, 2007
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Check out the Forum 2007 photo gallery and download the Forum brochure
Forum Feedback

Forum 2006 Home Page
Daring to Explore - Creating Possibilities Together
March 30 - April 4, 2006
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angele
Download the 2007 Forum brochure
Forum Feedback

Forum 2005 Home Page
Daring to Lead - Influencing Better Thinking for a Better Future
April 7-10, 2005
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Check out the Forum 2005 photo gallery and download the Forum brochure

Forum 2004
Making a Difference From Where We Are  - Better Thinking for a Better Future
April 1-4, 2004
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Download the 2004 Forum brochure

Forum 2003 Home Page
What's New?  What's Next? - Better Thinking for a Better Future
April 3-6, 2003
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Download the 2003 Forum brochure

Forum 2002 Home Page
Creating New ROIs - Transforming the Economics of the 21st Century 
April 18-21, 2002
Canoga Park, California, USA (Greater Los Angeles)
Download the 2002 Forum brochure