BIF-2 is over and from my humble vantage point, I believe we succeeded in our goal to let great people tell great stories. Throughout the summit, innovators from across sectors and disciplines took center stage to share their own personal experience in creating innovation and driving change. The bad news is that all good things must come to end. The good news is that video transcripts will be available in just a few days. Stay tuned and check back to the Business Innovation Factory next week!

I'd also like to thank our incredibly faithful group of bloggers who participated in the jam and provided such great feedback, insight and unique perspectives about the summit. My head is still reeling from all the great stories I heard and, just as important, the great connections I made. The blogosphere has its place, but face to face interaction just can't be beat. And frankly, sometimes I lose sight of that.

I want to thank Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation who, in between his live-blogging efforts, also created some really good podcasts with several of our storytellers. Be sure to check them out here.

I'm going to take some time now to sit back and digest. I'll leave you with something that Randy Antik said during his story...because all too often, in both our personal and professional lives, we find ourselves playing defense. We defend our position, we defend against competition. According to Antik though, "innovation is on the offensive team." And it's a good place to be.