Join more than 3,500 independent school leaders and colleagues at the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle. Together we'll tap into the innovative spirit of the Pacific Northwest to dream up bold new ideas to lead our school communities into the future. Long a hotbed of creativity, Seattle will inspire you to invent new programs and ideas and revitalize current ones to bring back to your schools. Together we'll imagine new ways to cultivate leadership within our schools -- for administrators, faculty, and our students, who are the global leaders of tomorrow. Bill Gates, our opening general session speaker and independent school alum, will inspire and challenge you as he models for us how cutting-edge innovation and philanthropy go hand in hand.

Release your innovator within and meet us where it all began -- e-commerce, the caramel macchiato, the first bone marrow transplant, grunge rock, jet travel, the personal computer, the wave, the list goes on... With endless possibilities, what will our independent school communities add to this groundbreaking list of innovations? The sky's the limit. Or is it?