What is an inventor’s most important investment?
Deb Hess, Executive Director
Minnesota Inventors Congress and the Invention & Idea Show™

This Inventing Success™ Workshop help inventors learn that the most important investment they can make is to become educated in the product development process; and to know how to identify reliable resources and spot invention promotion companies. To make sure you spend your time and money wisely, you need to learn the steps successful inventors take to develop marketable products. The Minnesota Inventors Congress (MIC) is a non-profit organization that has been educating inventors
since 1958.

BIO: Deb Hess, Executive Director

Deb Hess uses her marketing and management experience to educate inventors on how to develop marketable products. She has worked with independent inventors for 25 years and has been coordinating the MIC Inventing Success™ Workshops for over 20 years. Hess is a certified trainer, coach and facilitator who foster’s the creative and innovative spirit in entrepreneurs.

Inventors benefit from Hess’ experience as owner of her family’s micro-enterprise, where she has fine-tuned her business skills from development to accounting. In addition, she served two terms as an elected official for Redwood County, where she gained valuable consensus building skills and knowledge of public policy.

As coordinator of the Invention & Idea Show™, the annual invention expo hosted by the MIC, Hess has witnessed the value of providing the opportunity for inventors to test market their latest products, leading to financial backing, manufacturing, job creation and economic development.

Deb Hess speaks to inventors, students, intellectual property attorneys, manufacturers and others across the state of Minnesota. On an international level, she has served as a juror for World Cup of Computer Implemented Inventions in Taipei, Taiwan and as US Representative for the Global Sustainability Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.