Yeah, so you're a tech genius. Now it's time to take that invention out of the basement and do something with it

Bit of late notice here, but for those of you in the Boston area, the IEEE-USA Innovation Institute is holding its Innovation Forum at the Westin Waltham Boston in Waltham, Mass., this week from June 10-12. The event really gets going tomorrow, so still time to head over there and check it out. The agenda listed on the web site is a bit on the vague side, but the general idea is to yap about how to convert ideas and inventions into things people can actually use. Speakers include:

• Peggy Hutcheson, a leader in organization development, human capital management, and leadership with more than 20 years experience working with scientists, engineers and technical professionals.

• Howard Lieberman, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute who invented new technologies at the Bose Corporation, Apple Computer and each of the five companies he founded.

• Alain Rostain, co-founder and principal of Innovation Styles, Inc., a strategic innovation consulting firm.

• Mauro Togneri, a former president and senior executive of U.S. companies with R&D, sales and manufacturing operations around the world.

• Steve Walker, an entrepreneur and former Defense Department engineer who helped develop the ARPAnet packet switching system that evolved into the Internet.