Bonfire Team Designs and Facilitates TIGER Summit

A team from Bonfire Communications, led by Director of Campaign Services Vivien Dai, successfully designed and facilitated the 2006 Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Summit, held in Bethesda, Md. October 31-November 1, 2006. The invitation-only event, titled "Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing," gathered over 120 leaders from the nation's nursing practice, education, informatics and professional nursing organizations, government agencies, and other key stakeholders.

Participants focused their efforts around a singular exploratory focus: Creating a vision for the future of nursing that bridges the quality chasm with information technology (IT), enabling nurses to use informatics in practice and education to provide safer, high-quality patient care. In partnership with Bonfire, attendees created both a 10-year vision and three-year local and global action plan for transforming nursing practice and education.

The two-day agenda incorporated keynote presentations, panel discussions, case study exemplars, large and small group dialogue, audience response technology, and experiential learning. Along with planning the event, Bonfire provided open-space facilitation with real-time graphic recording to maximize output from its participants.

Learn more about TIGER and the summit.