Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic make heroes. Benjamin Disraeli Our unconference is now prepared and ready to roll. But how do we manage such an amorphous, ever-evolving event? We watch and we respond. Seizing opportunity and harnessing unexpected contributions and embracing serendipitous gifts of a diverse and talented audience. With Stream, the…
Curate-facilitate6Setting up the grounds for disruption!Curate-facilitate1The beach awaiting Bonfire Making madness...Curate-facilitate2Informal gazebo discussion areaCurate-facilitate4Bedouin tent main stageCurate-facilitate5Big board Big board waiting to be filled by delegates...Curate-facilitate7Giant beanbag discussion areaCurate-facilitate8Setting up the map
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint Exupery Contrary to perception, it is precise planning, research and attention to detail that creates the right environment for an unconference. Unconferences are the very opposite of Olympic-scale pyrotechnics, megawatt stars and rotating stages, but they still…
We often talk about unconferences; the broad range of people they can bring together and the far reaching discussions, ideas and insights they generate. But what is an unconference? How and why does it work? Unconferences are not at all like other corporate events. They are loose, informal, unstructured and very importantly, they are participant-led….
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