The 99% Conference was hands-down the most inspiring conference I have yet attended. These guys are *good*!

The Behance 99% conference wound up on a high note with Pentagram designer Michael Bierut offering five sane and simple principles for maximum productivity, including 'Listen first, then design' and 'The problem contains the solution.'

99% felt like an explosion of initiative, passion and unlimited will to make things happen, on and off the stage. Scott Belsky and Josh Rubin dared the audience of nearly 400 to not only be creative and generate ideas, but more importantly to actually 'execute them before they die.'

Enough with the ideas, already! How do serial entrepreneurs or other remarkably productive folks, actually make things happen in their lives? It's a question with particular relevance to these times. When has the world needed more of both ideas and execution?

Prioritize your projects so you don't sabotage yourself by trying to do everything.

Seth Godin was a breath of fresh air at an already amazing conference. One of the highlights: 'You don't need to be more creative, all of you are too creative.'

99% is a one-stop solution for pipe-dream junkies and those with big breaks just around the corner.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more successful and influential group of "do-ers, not say-ers" assembled in one place.

The 99% Conference will be the kick in the ass that people with great ideas sometimes need.

The current economic crisis presents an amazing opportunity to liberate creative talent from the traditional careers that we cling to in fear of going out on our own. For the first time in decades, the most talented people might actually follow their true interests rather than the masses.

Especially in creative industries, [designers] are probably some of the most disorganized teams and individuals on the planet. The nature of idea generation often runs at odds with managing processes and maintaining productivity.

We're glad to finally see a conference that explores a side of the creative process that always gets overlooked - the execution.