The Creative Brain

This year our Brain and Learning series will explore the creative mind, the conditions that foster creativity, the factors that inhibit us and help spark innovation.

All speakers in the Creative Brain series are world-class researchers and innovators in the field of creativity. Through these lectures you will receive tools to develop and promote creative thinking at home, at work or in the classroom. Join us to discover what the Creative Brain is, how to develop and foster it.

Global Call for Creative Ideas: We invite you to use your brain creatively and act for the well-being of the planet by participating in the Global Call for Creative Ideas. Those who apply will have the opportunity to take part virtually in the study on the creative mind conducted by the Cognitive Neuroscience Creativity Lab at Penn State University.

Dr. Arnulfo Valdivia M.

From creativity, to innovation, to disruption

Dr. Valdivia makes a clear distinction about the disruption process. “Creativity is necessary in this process and it comes first. This is where ideas come in. And creativity is needed for innovation, which puts these ideas into action, but this is not disruption.

Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati

Eco-innovation as a path to sustainable development

United Nations Environment Program

Dr. Roger E. Beaty

What is the creative mind?

Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at Penn State University

Lina Pugsley

What are the necessary conditions for creativity?

Her mission is to inspire creativity and dispel the common myths surrounding it. But why is she so motivated to do so? Resource Creator: Keeping Creativity Alive

Leonard Sommer

Lessons from Classroom Thinktank

“Developing every person’s unique creative potential must become one of our most important educational goals – in schools and even at home.”

Dr. Juan Lavista

How to generate new ideas?

Chief Scientific Officer: Microsoft AI For Good Research Lab