Location: TBA Calendar: UF Calendar Contact: ahoward@arts.ufl.edu - Andy Howard Description: JumpstART is a program that empowers students in fine arts and entrepreneurship through collaborative exploration, discovery, divergent thinking and professional mentorship. "Innovation is a very networked activity, now," Bray shared. "To do it takes a different way of thinking." Alumnus Duane Bray returns to campus to share his experiences as a partner at IDEO where he heads the firm's Global Software Experience practice. Bray has trained executives, educators, and students on the IDEO method of innovation, enabling more people to think in new ways and unlock solutions to problems in many fields of interest and industry. This free discussion will explore how artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers are reinventing the processes and products humans use on a daily basis. Sponsored IDEO and the folloring University of Florida units: College of Fine Arts, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the Warrington College of Business, College of Engineering's Engineering Innovation Institute, the Honors Program, and Arts. Special support was received this year from Duane Bray and IDEO.