News Releases

5/17/2007 - PRESENTATION: Richard Langevin, CEO, presented "An Overview of TRIZ" to the Worcester Chapter of American Society of Quality at the Marriott Hotel in Marlboro. The 60+ participants overflowed the room but actively participated in the 1 hour presentation.

5/16/2007 - PRESENTATION: Richard Langevin, CEO, presented "Embracing Contradictions" to the New Haven Chapter of American Society of Quality at Brazi's restaurant. Most of the 20+ participants were new to TRIZ and enjoyed a fresh approach to problem solving.

5/7/2007 - TRAINING: Valery "Kraev" Krasnoslobodtsev is continuing his development of a TRIZ Team for a manufacturing in Istanbul, Turkey. This final week of training will result in certification of 24 Practitioners. Our practical approach to training and application has developed skilled TRIZ users and numerous new patents for the company. Immediate ROI by the company makes it easy for them to support our training efforts and to continue with the training and development of their engineers.

4/23/2007 - CONFERENCE: Richard Langevin, CEO and Executive Director of the Altshuller Institute, will be managing the 9th Annual International TRIZ Conference - TRIZCON2007 in Louisville, KY. This 3 day Conference is the center piece of the Institute's year long efforts to promote TRIZ globally. Over 150 people attended this year's Conference from 16 different countries. In 1999, when the first conference was held in Detroit, MI., it was the only TRIZ Conference held outside of Russia. Last year, there were six TRIZ conferences held around the world. The Altshuller Institute is providing a valuable service and fulfilling its mandate to promote TRIZ to the world.

10/12/2006 - PRESENTATION: On the 10th of October, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, was a tutorial speaker on ARIZ and its applications at the ETRIA Conference in Belgium. He also presented a paper about Modeling of Physical Contradictions.

9/30/2006 - TRAINING: From the 25th to the 29th of September, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, trained employees of a Turkish comapny. In the 40 hour course, Dr. Krasnoslobodtsev trained about 25 students in Introductory TRIZ theory.

9/3/2006 - PRESENTATION: On the 1st of September, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, presented a paper at the Second TRIZ Symposium in Japan. This half hour presentation was about modeling of physical contradictions.

9/3/2006 - TRAINING: On the 28th of August, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, taught a TRIZ seminar at the Tokyo World Trade Center for about 80 specialists from different Japanese companies. This was a seminar held just prior to the Second TRIZ Symposium in Japan.

5/4/2006 - PRESENTATION: On the 1st of May, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, presented a paper at the eighth annual TRIZCON in Milwaukee, WI. The paper was on the subject of Applied TRIZ in High-Tech Industry.

4/22/2006 - TRAINING: On the 20th and 21st of April, our chief TRIZ technology officer, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev, held a training seminar in Oporto, Portugal for employees of various companies from cities around Portugal. In the 16 hour course organized by QTEL, Lda., Dr. Krasnoslobodtsev trained about 30 students in Introductory TRIZ theory.