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July 2008 ~ Carole Bilson, Pitney Bowes

BilsonCarole Bilson is the Vice President of Global Design and Usability and Technology Support Operations at Pitney Bowes in Shelton, Connecticut. Her team of 50 people includes graphic designers, industrial designers, and human factors engineers who do everything from sketching and building prototypes to assessing needs, testing new products and letting people interact with products.

Ms. Bilson has been invited to deliver the opening keynote address at this year's National Conference of the Usability Professionals Association in Baltimore in June. We are very pleased that she will address our chapter in July. Carole will be speaking on How Innovation Works.

Companies need to be innovative in order to thrive. How do you foster a culture of innovation? How do you sustain innovative thinking? Can the return on innovation be measured? Learn more about innovation and how to empower employees at all levels to be innovative.

Prior to Pitney Bowes, Carole Bilson worked at Kodak where she helped deliver the award-winning Picturemaker, a photo kiosk that is often found in drugstores.

Carole holds a degree in industrial design from the University of Michigan, has two patents, and is credited as being the first black woman in the nation to hold an executive position to lead a design and usability department within a major corporation.

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