This June, Bloomberg will host the 2016 Bloomberg Technology Conference, shining a spotlight on inventors and invention around the world. While “innovation” has become an overused buzzword, invention is the hard work of creating something wholly new—and Silicon Valley doesn’t have a lock on it. The Bloomberg Technology Conference will feature companies and CEOs from around the world that are striving to be inventive and innovative, the institutions that spawn and support inventors, and the disruptive inventors themselves. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how to develop cultures of invention that will produce truly game-changing products, services and processes.

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Looking for 2015 highlights?

View last year’s agenda, speakers and more.