Artists can provide enormous value to high-tech enterprises to provoke creativity; break boundaries; solve puzzles; evoke emotion and generate empathy. It is the pathway for startups "connecting" with in an era of "disconnection.

Few organizations have successfully implemented a formula for injecting artists into high tech. We’ll discuss the secret sauce and value add that comes from marrying artists with tech! Our panelists, including CODAME and the Center for Advancing Innovation, engage artists and high tech through their respective initiatives. In partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, the Center for Advancing Innovation is leading the first initiative to systematically unite artists with both IP and high tech startups.