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Sarasota hosts annual PINC conference
People, ideas, nature and creativity — they're the four themes that guide the annual PINC conference at Sarasota Opera House.
Conferencegoers heard from women's rights activists, chefs, teachers and even an everyday astronaut, all sharing their stories and reenforcing their shared experiences.
Sarasota PINC Conference is ‘like a bubble bath for your mind’
Sixteen eclectic speakers at the fourth annual PINC Experience wow a capacity crowd Thursday.
Fourth PINC Sarasota set for Dec. 7
Sarasota’s fourth PINC (People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity) event is scheduled to bring another eclectic group of at least 13 speakers to give TED-style talks Dec. 7 at the Sarasota Opera House.
Tickets for Creative All-Day Conference Go on Sale Friday
Tickets for this year’s PINC (People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity) conference go on sale at noon on Friday, Sept. 1. The annual event presents a mix of thought-provoking and informative talks, stories and visual presentations. This year’s iteration includes internationally known graphic designers, artists, architects, food entrepreneurs and more.
Unique Speakers Provide Spark at PINC Conference
For the third straight year, an eclectic, quirky, unpredictable international lineup of speakers took turns offering pep talks on the human condition, ominous reality checks and glimpses of the future in 20-minute stanzas. For those who ponied up $425 a ticket, the nine-hour experience included three meals and, for the third straight year, according to host Anand Pallegar, the event sold out all 540 seats.
The PINC 2016 Lineup
The People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity conference is scheduled for Dec. 8, with 16 international speakers of “singular accomplishment in widely varied fields” at the Sarasota Opera House.
Design Disruptors
The local creative community attended the premier of “Design Disruptors” documentary at Louies Modern.
A Sarasota Version of TED Talks Inspires Ideas
In 1999, the van Lindonks launched PINC — People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity — as an annual, daylong conference in Zeist, Holland, mimicking the TED format with a series of presentations by speakers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. In late 2014, PINC made its American debut with a sold-out event at the Florida Studio Theatre in downtown Sarasota. At the third annual conference in December, PINC’s speaker lineup will include an “explanation designer,” “artographer” and professor of animal science.
Editor: Why Cloudy Thinking is Innovative
No successful startup story begins these days without the Fiat first being moved into the driveway. If you’re going to be the next Apple or Google, you must unleash this innovative Zeitgeist on an oil-stained concrete floor.
PINC Program in Sarasota Serves Up Plenty of Brain Food
Alternately exhilarating, challenging and provocative, the marathon People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity (PINC) program, sponsored by Ringling College of Art and Design, compressed the skills and perspectives of 16 presentations into 20-minute blocks of entertainment.
Creativity In The 'PINC' Coming To Sarasota
Sarasota this week is hosting an out-of-the-ordinary symposium that has its roots in the Netherlands. This is the second year the city has hosted the American version of the PINC Conference, a symposium that's brought together creative types in the Netherlands the past 16 years. Think of it as a European version of TED Talks, with a twist.
People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity Conference Returns to Sarasota
Sponsored by Ringling College of Art and Design, the People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity (PINC) conference is already running out of room for its 450-seat capacity audience.
Change Your Frame of Reference
Presented by Ringling College of Art and Design, PINC.Sarasota (People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity) returns to Sarasota on Thursday, December 10th, 2015 for one remarkable day of discovery. PINC challenges, delights, educates and opens our minds to the infinite possibilities within us all.
PINC.Sarasota Launched a Successful, Sold-out Event Last Week
Like a marathon film festival, PINC, with its almost nonstop one amazing speaker after another, left me feeling I couldn’t hold onto enough of the details.
Fresh Perspectives at PINC Talks in Sarasota
A crowd of 230 people welcomed speaker after speaker to the Florida Studio Theater in downtown Sarasota on Thursday.
PINC.Sarasota: A Global Conference Comes to the Gulf Coast
A conference promoting People, Ideas, Nature, and Creativity (PINC) is making its American debut in Sarasota on November 6th.
For over fifteen years, PINC has been a stand-out event in the Netherlands, drawing crowds from all over the world. This year, it was Sarasota that drew PINC for its state-side introduction.
Similar in format to “TED Talks,” sixteen international speakers will share their stories and passion for innovation, inspiration, and creativity.
Sarasota Stands to Gain International Luster
PINC Sarasota, which will be held early next month at Florida Studio Theatre, is being touted as a celebration of “People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity” that will bring international storytellers to Sarasota for the first time.
Sarasota Looks for International Luster from Day of Lectures
When people leave Florida Studio Theater on Nov. 6, Anand Pallegar wants them to feel energized and to be brimming with new ideas. That is the whole premise behind the inaugural PINC.Sarasota event, which in less than two weeks will take over the theater in downtown Sarasota for a whole day.
PINC. Sarasota bringing in international inspiration
What do a British arctic explorer, an ESPN and CNN journalist, an engineer and filmmaker from Bhutan, a digital asset director at Nickelodeon, a founder of a Swiss idea factory and 12 other international innovators have in common?
If you have no clue, then you haven't heard of PINC.Sarasota.
Development Deals are Bringing Sarasota into the Limelight
Anand Pallegar considers the new $315 million mall in Sarasota an endorsement of the city — and his decision to launch his business there.