SPN 22nd Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado

“It’s only when we move beyond what we know we can do and take a risk…that we can make our dreams happen.”
– Whitney Johnson, author of Dare, Dream, Do and 22nd Annual Meeting plenary speaker

On September 23–26, over 900 leaders, innovators, investors, and, yes, dreamers gathered in Denver, Colorado, for the SPN 22nd Annual Meeting. These attendees are dispersed across the country most of the time, and each year, the SPN Annual Meeting gives them an opportunity to reconnect and collaborate.

Much like family members are united by deep roots, memories, and hopes for the future, Annual Meeting attendees are bonded by their history, their vision, and their relationships with each other. The event is their opportunity to share ideas, celebrate victories, empathize with challenges, see old friends, and make new ones.

To encourage and equip this year’s attendees, SPN chose “Dare to Disrupt” as its 2014 Annual Meeting theme. Through plenary sessions, discipline-specific tracks, networking opportunities, and inspiring speakers, attendees learned practical ways to take risks and apply basic principles of disruptive innovation toward advancing freedom in the states.  And, of course, they managed to have a little fun, too.
Here are a few of the most memorable moments from the 22nd Annual Meeting.

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