Inventors who have attended previous TGIF conferences report that the forum is invaluable. We re through the test phase and are now doing a cost feasibility study. A few very special keynote speakers will be present at TGIF 99. Ruth Handler, the Barbie Doll inventor, and her husband Eliott, inventor of Hot Wheels, are cofounders of Mattel and will be on hand to speak to the attendees and sign a few autographs. Keynote speaker is Alex Langer, inventor of the Flying Fishing Lure.
Event includes panel discussions, exhibits, and inventors roundtable.
Keynote speakers - Edward deBono, the world's leading authority on creative and conceptual thinking. Shirley M. Malcolm, head of the Directorate for education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Host of the conference is the Inventure Place, Home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron Ohio. Tell your story to Vince Chemist by the 2nd Saturday of the month so we can get your story in the next Nevada Inventor. Many start up business ventures focus far too long on perfecting their product, seldom do market research, seldom test products for manufacturability, and have no effective, realistic profit analysis.