The Mexican TRIZ Association (AMETRIZ) and the Mexican Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technologies Industries Chamber are proposing the Third Iberian and Latin American Conference on Technological Innovation in order to create opportunities for Industrials, Researchers and Academicians for exchanging their experiences.

The “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” (TRIZ) is a practical methodology and an evolving science. Millions of patents have been examined and analyzed looking for inventive principles and to study the patterns of evolution of products and also to introduce new computerized tools, improving the capabilities for innovation and inventive problem solving. TRIZ has been proved to be effective in several cases for solving problems and to develop strategies for future technologies in the industry and science.

Although TRIZ has been up to now mostly applied on technical problems it is expanding in other areas as business, management, medicine, psychology and Education. A broad spectrum of subjects in various fields will be presented and debated with experts, practitioners and newcomers of TRIZ and Technological Innovation.

This conference will be the Third international conference and will be developed within the dates October 8 to 11, 2008; it will be a wonderful event for all kinds of people who are willing to exchange ideas on TRIZ and Technological Innovation, to find answers to their interrogations and new aspects on their subjects. The sessions in this conference will cover different topics from industrial applications to teaching methods and opportunities.

The objective is to add an international forum to promote exchange, disseminate and discuss information on TRIZ and Technological Innovation and also to forecast on its evolution specially its relation to other methodologies as QFD, Six Sigma and other methods for creativity and innovation.

Submissions, including author's name(s) - company – address phone - fax and e-mail should be sent to the Mexican TRIZ Association, Co-ordination Group of the 3rd Iberian Latin American TRIZ Conference: informes@ametriz.com

Important dates:

• An extended abstract in Spanish or English (1500 – 2000 words) should be submitted by June 24, 2008.
• Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by July 4, 2008.
• Full Paper should be submitted by July 25, 2008.
• A second review will be performed on those papers that had been accepted with modifications
• Camera ready papers are due by August 15, 2008.

Conference proceeding with ISBN number will be published on CD and made available to participants at and after the conference. Relevant topic areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Industrial Case Studies
• Industrial Implementation Studies
• Corporate integration experiences
• Educational curriculum
• Academic Research
• Collaboration Academy-Industry
• TRIZ applications in non technical fields
• Integration with other methods (Lateral Thinking, Mind Maps, etc.)
• Methodical approach
• TRIZ enhancements
• TRIZ criticism
• Futurist vision of TRIZ evolution
• Synergy TRIZ with other methodologies
• TRIZ in Education

Interested authors are invited to submit as soon as possible an intention of participation letter with a provisory title of their proposed paper.

Other important information will be available soon in the Web site:
http://www.ametriz.com/ and
http://www.canieti.org/