Paradigm President And CEO To Speak At IMAGINE '09: Ideas At Work

John W. Gibson, Jr. to discuss the value of open innovation at the 2009 American Astronautical Society conference

Houston, TX - Paradigm (www.pdgm.com), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, announced recently that the company's President and CEO, John W. Gibson, Jr., will speak at the American Astronautical Society (AAS) conference, IMAGINE '09: Ideas at Work, to be held December 2 and 3 at the NASA Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. The event will engage CEOs, entrepreneurs, astronauts, and scholars, spanning a range of industries, in an interactive forum aimed at sparking powerful new ideas within the greater space community.

A recognized visionary and thought leader, Gibson will discuss how large entrepreneurial companies are utilizing collaborative, global, web-based communities to generate creative solutions and establish a more sustainable culture of innovation. He will also investigate the pitfalls that growing companies must overcome to remain creative and competitive in rapidly advancing industries.

Gibson has become one of the most vocal and progressive proponents of new models of innovation. Under his leadership, Paradigm became the first software developer in the upstream energy industry to post critical high-priority challenges to the InnoCentive® Open Innovation Marketplace™.

For more information on Paradigm products and services, visit information at (www.pdgm.com), or e-mail info@pdgm.com.

SOURCE: Paradigm Ltd.