Now that we’re busy planning our 2012 invention show, I am excited to announce that we have nine different product searches coming to INPEX^® 2012!

The following companies will conduct searches for new products to add to their existing lines, as well as give feedback to inventors:

The Clorox Company

Schroeder & Tremayne

Tupperware Brands

Stanley Black & Decker

Hampton Direct

Jarden Consumer Solutions

Quickie Manufacturing

Jasco Products

SkyMall

Inventors with appropriate new products, fitting the criteria, will have the opportunity to present their inventions to representatives from these companies at INPEX^®.

Keep checking back to my blog, as I’ll tell you in the coming months the different criteria that each of these companies require. Also, we’re working every day to add more product searches to INPEX^® 2012, so keep your eye out for more information!

If you have a product that you think fits any of these companies’ profiles, don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to meet with company representatives. Call 1-888-54-INPEX to speak with one of our account representatives, and book your booth today!

If you’re a company thinking about attending INPEX® 2011, the Open Innovation Conference is just one more reason to add our trade show to your list!

Aside from being able to see hundreds of new product ideas, this year’s INPEX® is holding its first Open Innovation Conference June 14 and 15 during show floor hours.

This new innovation conference, hosted by InventHelp® and INPEX®, will bring together top notch open innovation leaders and advanced practitioners from multiple industries to address and provide leadership to accelerate your innovation-to-market cycle.

You can hear keynote and guest speakers from companies such as General Mills, GlaxoSmithKline and Google, who will present on topics related to: the everyday challenges of open innovation in your business; learning how to use social media technologies to engage with your customers; using social networking to increase sales and promote your business; growing your open innovation capabilities with cost-conscience initiatives; expanding your open innovation processes and much more!

Your company can benefit from the networking opportunities, gain education and knowledge from leading innovation companies, and have the opportunity to see new products ready for manufacturing, marketing, distribution or licensing.

After the innovation conference, you’ll automatically be registered to attend INPEX® 2011, where you will see new products on display in over 50 different product categories. At America’s Largest Invention Show, you can touch and evaluate inventions and ideas, as well as talk directly to the inventor about the details of his or her idea.

For complete details about registration rates (including how to save if you book your company early) and hotel accommodations, visit our Open Innovation Conference page on the INPEX® website at www.inpex.com/open_innovation_conference or call 1-888-54-INPEX.

Keep checking back for a complete list of updated speakers and seminar titles and schedules. Don’t miss this opportunity to include your company at INPEX® 2011, the only place to experience this type of combined format for business leaders!

INPEX® is proud to welcome “Mrs. Fields” as our keynote speaker at our 2011 show. Debbi Fields will speak on Wednesday morning, June 15, and will cut the ribbon to officially kick off INPEX® 2011!

Debra (Debbi) J. Fields epitomizes the American dream. From humble beginnings, she launched what has become one of the nation’s most visible, successful dessert empires.

Fields earned more than 25 years of entrepreneurial, operational and managerial
experience in a company she built (literally) from scratch. Founder, baker, chief cookie lover and former chairman of Mrs. Fields Cookies, a $450 million company she founded in 1977, Mrs. Fields has since sold her company, which is a market leader among fresh-baked cookie stores.

Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery opened its doors to the public in Palo Alto, California in 1977. Thirty-plus years later, Fields’ role had expanded from managing one shop to supervising operations, brand name management, public relations and product development of her company’s 600+ company-owned and franchise stores in the United States and 10 foreign nations.

With expansion on the horizon in 1989, Mrs. Fields, Inc. was among the first companies to take advantage of dramatic computer technology advancements. Fields led her company into the computer age, streamlining operations and production schedules with a state-of-the-art computer system. Her program is used as a model for business efficiency at Harvard Business School. It remains an example of successful application of technology in business management.

Fields’ business accomplishments and capabilities reach far beyond managing Mrs.
Fields, Inc. Today, she sits on the boards of Outback Steakhouse, The Greater Memphis Arts Council and The Orpheum Theater. In 2003, Fields received the Golden Gavel Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who demonstrates consistent self-improvement, success and leadership. That same year, she was inducted into The Society of Entrepreneurs.

Fields is the author of two cookbooks published by Time-Life. The first, Mrs. Fields’
Cookie Book: 100 Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields, has sold more than 1.8 million copies and was the first cookbook to top The New York Times best-seller list. The second, I Love Chocolate Cookbook, published in 1994, has enjoyed tremendous success as well, posting sales of over half a million copies.

She hosted Great American Desserts, a weekly program that aired nationally on public television, and is also the name of her third and newest book, Debbi Fields’ Great American Desserts, published by Simon and Schuster.

Don’t pass up this opportunity to hear Debbi’s experience, as well as the chance to exhibit your invention at America’s largest invention trade show, June 14-17, 2011. Call 1-888-54-INPEX to speak to one of our account representatives and reserve your booth today!

We know you have all been anxiously awaiting details on our upcoming trade show.

INPEX® is proud to announce that it will hold its 26th Annual Show June 14-17, 2011, at the Monroeville Convention Center, about 20 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.

We’re excited to get plans underway for INPEX® 2011, and we hope that you’ll continue to check back for updates as we add speakers, companies and other exciting events!

Don’t pass up this opportunity to exhibit your invention at America’s largest invention trade show. Call 1-888-54-INPEX to reserve your booth today!

First off, InventHelp and INPEX would like to thank everyone who helped make the 25th anniversary show one to remember. We had a great time and it seems everyone else did as well! We hope you found the seminars, speakers and events useful and interesting. It was great to see the showroom floor filled with enthusiastic inventors who were eager to show off their inventions. This year’s INPEX also had a record number of business attendees (almost 1,100) who were on the lookout for inventions and new product ideas.

Pennsylvania Bussiness Central wrote a nice follow-up article about INPEX 2010 which can be read on their site: Inventors Flock to Monroeville for INPEX.

Thanks again and we can’t wait for next year’s show!