The first ever Innovation Summit Pasadena will be held on Thursday, October 10th. Innovation Summit Pasadena is designed to offer insight and deepen participants’ understanding of innovation as the pathway to extraordinary outcomes. The event has a great lineup of speakers from a variety of fields, including science, technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship. (Innovate Pasadena’s own Andy Wilson is on the speaker list.)

Keynote speakers include: Bill Gross, CEO of Idealab; George Whitesides, President of Virgin Galactic; Patricia Moore, Author, Gerontologist, and Industrial Designer; Mike Jones, former CEO of MySpace and founder of Science Technology Studio; Keith Ferrazzi, Author & Founder of Ferrazzi Greenlight; John Mattison, CMIO of Kaiser Permanente; and Dr. Andy Walshe, High Performance Director of Red Bull.

In addition to the speaker sessions the summit will include a FAST PITCH Completion where six to eight startup companies will be given three to five minutes to pitch a product.

Event organizers Pasadena Magazine and the Five Star Institute have provided us with a special promo code that will allow IP community members to register for $100. (The regular ticket price is $199) Enter PMISP as the discount code when registering.

For more information go to InnovationSummitPasadena.com.