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Conference Planning Team

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dr. dan deneui
​Co-Executive Director of Creativity Conference
Dr. DeNeui is the Director of the Social Science Division and Professor of Psychology at Southern Oregon University. During his 17 years at Southern Oregon, he has served in a variety of campus leadership roles. Previously Dan held academic positions at Elon University and Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota. He has also served as an organizational consultant for a wide variety of organizations ranging from small, regional non-profits to large Fortune 500 companies.
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dr. Mark runco 
​Co-Executive Director of Creativity Conference
Mark is one of the leading personalities in creativity. He has devised numerous tests that measures potential and performance in creativity. Dr. Runco received his PhD in cognitive psychology from Claremont Graduate School. Dr. Runco is also known for being the founder of the Creativity Research Journal and in 2014 he founded the journal of Business Creativity and the Creative Economy. 
Click here to view Dr. Runco's website.
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Dee Fretwell
Logistics coordinator

Review Committee

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dr. dan deneui
​Co-Executive Director of Creativity Conference
Dr. DeNeui is the Director of the Social Science Division and Professor of Psychology at Southern Oregon University. During his 17 years at Southern Oregon, he has served in a variety of campus leadership roles. Previously Dan held academic positions at Elon University and Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota. He has also served as an organizational consultant for a wide variety of organizations ranging from small, regional non-profits to large Fortune 500 companies.
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dr. Mark runco 
​Co-Executive Director of Creativity Conference
Mark is one of the leading personalities in creativity. He has devised numerous tests that measures potential and performance in creativity. Dr. Runco received his PhD in cognitive psychology from Claremont Graduate School. Dr. Runco is also known for being the founder of the Creativity Research Journal and in 2014 he founded the journal of Business Creativity and the Creative Economy. 
Click here to view Dr. Runco's website.
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Dr. Carlos cardoso
College of Design, Iowa State University
Carlos Cardoso is an Associate Professor at the College of Design, Iowa State University. His research interests are in the area of creative thinking, design cognition and systems thinking. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to studying how to support and inspire designers to think more creatively about global (wicked) problems, and not just artifacts or services.
 
Carlos teaches and coordinates design courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as professional training on creative thinking in both Europe and the US. He has been a frequent reviewer for several scientific journals, presented his research in different conferences, and published his work in engineering and design journals.

What is the Creativity Conference?

The Creativity Conference will take place May 15-18, 2025 on the campus of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. The conference can also be accessed remotely through our conference app, Whova. The conference will provide a wealth of information for those who study the science of creativity, seek to leverage research on creative thinking, or simply consider themselves to be creative! 
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  • Call for Proposals
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  • Previous Conferences