From Playthings.com:
“NEW YORK—The Toy Industry Association (TIA) is hosting The Toy Inventor’s Primer during the association’s Multi-Discipline Conference next month in San Francisco.
Specifically created for inventors looking to connect with the mainstream toy industry, the seminar will teach the basics on what companies are looking for in new product concepts, the review process, development and marketing and more.
The seminar will take place on Monday July 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel. For more information and to register visit www.toy-tia.org, click the multi-discipline conference web banner.
The session is to be moderated by Judy Ellis, founder and chairperson of the Toy Design Department at Fashion Institute of Technology. Speakers include David Berko, partner of East-West Innovation and Jamie Filipeli, Director of Investor Relations, Mattel, Inc.”
That sounds like a really cool seminar for anyone interested in toy invention. I’m going to try and make it…