I will be in Chicago next week at the Inc 500 Conference covering as many emerging companies as I can. I want to find out what makes them tick and share that with you here.

Three places you will find me:
• The conference is sponsored in part by OPEN from American Express, which will host a session called Great Entrepreneurial Minds.
• Dell CMO, Mark Jarvis, will deliver a session called Marketing in a digital world – Check out SB360
• Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, speaks about the future of small business in America (nice article in Inc this month)

I also plan to get a word with Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick and Jack Stack, godfather of open book management.

If you’re a Duct Tape reader and plan on attending the event (maybe you’re even one of the Inc 500!) I would love to meet you. Drop me a line.