This biennial event was founded 30 years ago, by world leading researchers in Thinking, and first league universities like Harvard, Linkopking, Melbourne and Massachusetts. The ICOT began in Fiji and has taken place in Massachusetts, Honolulu, Puerto Rico , Australia, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Arizona , Sweden,Malaysia and Ireland. The XVII edition will be held in Bilbao and for the first time in history with the vehicle language not English.

Howard Gardner, David Perkins, Lane Clark, Edward de Bono , Alex Osterwalder, Carol McGuiness, Daniel Goleman, Peter Senge, Karin Morrison, John Edwards, Robert Swartz, Guy Claxton and many more international personalities have been revolutionising the world of thinking with concepts like emotional intelligence, multiple intelligences, critical and creative thinking, team work,leadership, etc

Some of them who have been deepening their knowledge in their work , will be speakers in the event ICOT2015 Bilbao.