#Visioneer is on Sneak Preview
h/t Jonathan McGuiness posting on Facebook this news
Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016
Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016
The Emperor has no Clothes - REALLY?
It's been a couple of weeks since Nikola, a GSP11 alumni (as I almost did become; one week's notice to raise $ 25K was insane and so I did cover Amplifyfestival 2011 in Sydney that summer), shared his talk with the title The Emperor Has No Clothes: Socrates Deconstructs Singularity University.
In short, and that has come to my personal understanding is that:
1. Singularity University (SU) is not about the Singularity
2. Singularity University is running a traditional business model, not focused on exponential
3. Knowledge is not publicly shared as in announced in the first announcement at TED 2008
Even though I have to admit that I go along with many of Nikola's points he has made in his speech and the following Q & A I'd counter answer as the situation is quite more dynamically complex than it seems at first sight.
I will draw on the three points I have stated above.
ad 1.
When Ray Kurzweil, chancellor and co-founder of SU, at his TED talk 2008 "A University for the coming Singularity" he stated the following:
"Its students and faculty will study these technologies, with an emphasis on their interactions, and help to guide the process for the benefit of humanity and its environment"
... per se the "Singularity" is not the focus.
Additionally, SU is not a "traditional" university, though it makes sense to use the known term that is well understood by the public, as the curriculum is constantly in development (much faster than a university department normally changes the syllabus, even from year to year).
SU is rather about technologies and how they can be applied (yet missing out the social innovation part at large in the curriculum to what I see, and know) to solve the world's greatest challenges. As the TED talk came up, and I was in the phase to create a smaller version of SU AKA LockSchuppen here in Silicon Saxony's capital Dresden, we did manage to collaboratively translate the talk into German using the back than official TED translation tool dotSUB, in order to make it available for local business folks, and SMEs, as well as politicians and educators.
ad 2.
Concerning the business model, this was publicly outlined by Salim Ismail at the Foresight Conference 2010 (see the last presentation which includes slides and video on the schedule). This alone per se is quite unique as you seldom see this openness on how the business model is supposed to work in other companies.
As I found out myself ("the hard way"), building a business model on openness and exponential technologies (especially communication tools) the "normal" business world does not understand the implications of exponential technologies in its total impact (also on their business models, and economic future). Therefore, it makes sense to keep the "money for service" paradigm within SU for some time. As over time, the demand was growing this resulted even in raising the tuition for the Executive Program. Probably on one side to lower the overarching demand that could not fulfilled in the wished quality - I remember a workshop on lean manufacturing in 2005 that had allowed in twice as many participants (for the same price) than the year before, only to become overcrowded, crappy, and not recommendable anymore; the People Express Airline story how lowering prices can become fatal). On the other hand this "entrance barrier" forces potential participants to think more about the topic of exponential technologies, and get their grip on MOOCs, local communities such as XPRIZE Think Tanks and learn about it outside SU.
In both cases favorable.
Not to forget in this context is that Google now sponsors the tuition for the yearly 80 participants of the GSP program, meaning you don't have to raise the $ 25k but still there is the challenge to write the essays for the application, and do the video - which in itself is quite a challenge (I have done it three times, once in 2011 even successful)
Of course, this shouldn't the last step on the "ladder of progress", and SU is progressing in this as well being present at other conferences as in Hamburg at the ZEIT FESTIVAL Smashing Ideas (photos, own review on the event (in German)) in Hamburg in February or even doing the first SingularityU Germany Summit.
ad 3.
When SU started in 2009 with its first GSP cohort and the executive program it was intended to share the video lectures in public. Some of which especially in the early days became public such as "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it Yourself" (by Peter Diamandis) and "Bob Metcalfe discusses the Enernet" by Bob Metcalfe (both talks have become real inspirations for my own work)
Some great videos which were already out on the web even had to be taken down due to copyright issues, or lectures probably who didn't want their talks to be freely available to everybody.
Over the years, however, this has also become "better". As many of the attendees of the GSP-programs (#GSP09, #GSP10, #GSP11, #GSP12, #GSP13, #GSP14, #GSP15) are on social media, especially Twitter and the hashtag #SingularityU.
Rather than sharing the information with the organization itself, providing the context for participants to share ideas, information, knowledge, and connections themselves openly on social media so others (even outside the programs, and not paying thousand of dollars to attend) can become engaged, inspired, and pulled into taking action themselves.
During the GSP14 program, Angela Incampo (my co-initiator of HTxA - HighTech x Agency) and I decided to partner with Eventifier to bring the shared knowledge from Silicon Valley to a broader audience. Here our interview on the Eventifier blog and the one Angela did with three passionate and crazy attendees of GSP14 on the HTxA-blog.
... and finally, a great way to learn more about the protagonists of SU, and exponential entrepreneurs this series by Alison E. Berman is worthwhile.
Finally, the future is not there yet. A lot is ahead of us all. Becoming aware of our own mental models and how innovation, business models, and making a living in an exponential world is the first step the #MoonshotThinkers we are all probably are once we become aware of our capabilities!!
In short, and that has come to my personal understanding is that:
1. Singularity University (SU) is not about the Singularity
2. Singularity University is running a traditional business model, not focused on exponential
3. Knowledge is not publicly shared as in announced in the first announcement at TED 2008
Even though I have to admit that I go along with many of Nikola's points he has made in his speech and the following Q & A I'd counter answer as the situation is quite more dynamically complex than it seems at first sight.
I will draw on the three points I have stated above.
ad 1.
When Ray Kurzweil, chancellor and co-founder of SU, at his TED talk 2008 "A University for the coming Singularity" he stated the following:
... per se the "Singularity" is not the focus.
Additionally, SU is not a "traditional" university, though it makes sense to use the known term that is well understood by the public, as the curriculum is constantly in development (much faster than a university department normally changes the syllabus, even from year to year).
SU is rather about technologies and how they can be applied (yet missing out the social innovation part at large in the curriculum to what I see, and know) to solve the world's greatest challenges. As the TED talk came up, and I was in the phase to create a smaller version of SU AKA LockSchuppen here in Silicon Saxony's capital Dresden, we did manage to collaboratively translate the talk into German using the back than official TED translation tool dotSUB, in order to make it available for local business folks, and SMEs, as well as politicians and educators.
ad 2.
Concerning the business model, this was publicly outlined by Salim Ismail at the Foresight Conference 2010 (see the last presentation which includes slides and video on the schedule). This alone per se is quite unique as you seldom see this openness on how the business model is supposed to work in other companies.
As I found out myself ("the hard way"), building a business model on openness and exponential technologies (especially communication tools) the "normal" business world does not understand the implications of exponential technologies in its total impact (also on their business models, and economic future). Therefore, it makes sense to keep the "money for service" paradigm within SU for some time. As over time, the demand was growing this resulted even in raising the tuition for the Executive Program. Probably on one side to lower the overarching demand that could not fulfilled in the wished quality - I remember a workshop on lean manufacturing in 2005 that had allowed in twice as many participants (for the same price) than the year before, only to become overcrowded, crappy, and not recommendable anymore; the People Express Airline story how lowering prices can become fatal). On the other hand this "entrance barrier" forces potential participants to think more about the topic of exponential technologies, and get their grip on MOOCs, local communities such as XPRIZE Think Tanks and learn about it outside SU.
In both cases favorable.
Not to forget in this context is that Google now sponsors the tuition for the yearly 80 participants of the GSP program, meaning you don't have to raise the $ 25k but still there is the challenge to write the essays for the application, and do the video - which in itself is quite a challenge (I have done it three times, once in 2011 even successful)
Of course, this shouldn't the last step on the "ladder of progress", and SU is progressing in this as well being present at other conferences as in Hamburg at the ZEIT FESTIVAL Smashing Ideas (photos, own review on the event (in German)) in Hamburg in February or even doing the first SingularityU Germany Summit.
ad 3.
When SU started in 2009 with its first GSP cohort and the executive program it was intended to share the video lectures in public. Some of which especially in the early days became public such as "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it Yourself" (by Peter Diamandis) and "Bob Metcalfe discusses the Enernet" by Bob Metcalfe (both talks have become real inspirations for my own work)
Some great videos which were already out on the web even had to be taken down due to copyright issues, or lectures probably who didn't want their talks to be freely available to everybody.
Over the years, however, this has also become "better". As many of the attendees of the GSP-programs (#GSP09, #GSP10, #GSP11, #GSP12, #GSP13, #GSP14, #GSP15) are on social media, especially Twitter and the hashtag #SingularityU.
Rather than sharing the information with the organization itself, providing the context for participants to share ideas, information, knowledge, and connections themselves openly on social media so others (even outside the programs, and not paying thousand of dollars to attend) can become engaged, inspired, and pulled into taking action themselves.
During the GSP14 program, Angela Incampo (my co-initiator of HTxA - HighTech x Agency) and I decided to partner with Eventifier to bring the shared knowledge from Silicon Valley to a broader audience. Here our interview on the Eventifier blog and the one Angela did with three passionate and crazy attendees of GSP14 on the HTxA-blog.
... and finally, a great way to learn more about the protagonists of SU, and exponential entrepreneurs this series by Alison E. Berman is worthwhile.
Finally, the future is not there yet. A lot is ahead of us all. Becoming aware of our own mental models and how innovation, business models, and making a living in an exponential world is the first step the #MoonshotThinkers we are all probably are once we become aware of our capabilities!!
My #PresencingStatus on the issue:
1. Good - glad Nikola had the courage to bring the issues to the table
2. Tricky - quite challenging to keep the emotions calm and see, and become aware of the facts
3. Learned - technology is by far not enough to make the world a better place: social comes along
4. Action - PRESS RETURN to make these thoughts available for the conversation & dialogue
Yours, Ralf
Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015
Accelerate in Outlandish Ways
It's possible to not only think in outlandish ways but
DO IT
SU Labs announces
its
Welcome to the first accelerator program built specifically for startup (both for- and non-profit) tackling humanity' grand challenges leveraging exponential technology.
To give an idea watch Peter Diamandis' talk at SU from an Executive Program in 2009, better than watching a movie or webcast (in my opinion) opening new perspectives each time anew
Dienstag, 3. März 2015
#GSjamEventifier - Service Design Emerging from Nothingness
On last Saturday the application timeline for #GSP15 ended, and I shared my experience about it (see the last post). Honestly lots of the energy I have had put into the application process since the beginning of it still resides in me and "looks" to be used effectively.
As a passionately believer in what technology can be capable to bring positive to society and the individual, this time not being to attend (in person) the Global Service Jam 2015 activities here in Dresden I decided to put up a trial on Eventifier to let the tool capture the ongoings during the event. "Unwise" (or perhaps unconsciously "wise") I included both hashtag #GSjam (global) and #GSjamDD (Dresden-based) into the form. This led immediately to the fact that about 2,000 (1,998 to be exact) tweets were imported by the Eventifier server, and no new ones able to stream in.
Unlike I did for the Social Media Week 2015, #smw15, where I did ask the team of Eventifier what had happened that the import of tweets stopped at a certain amount. I was not only advised about the restrictions of the trial but also offered that the server would be allowed to import all the information streaming in on the Web using #smw15. See for yourself here.
This time I did not want to ask again for this favor (actually Eventifier is one of the sponsors of the Dresdner Lichtjahr here in Dresden, #LichtjahrDD (the hashtag used on social media) and the Eventifier page (where all info around the International Year of Light 2015, #IYL2015 and #LichtjahrDD are pulled in alike in order to make the global event more public around the public) on it.
In order open up all the information about the Global Service Jam 2015 on the social web to get included in the Eventifier "event" it is necessary to upgrade to BASIS for an amount of $49 (!) to enable it to stay public for one month.
So I thought, "Why not use the notion of creating a new service while the Global Service Jam is on - a digital one?"
As I had already some experience with #GSP14 I decided to use Eventbrite to make it happen via a mini-scale crowdfunding. A 1st prototype on Sunday did not raise much awareness nor supporters. With the trial still able to be explored in part for the next couple of days I decided yesterday morning to run a 2nd prototype with slightly different ticket types and changed text. In the morning I got support from a dear friend from Nigeria, Love Okochi, with whom I had been on team during the 'Technology Entrepreneurship 1' MOOC run by Prof. Chuck Eesley back in 2013. With his help we changed some of text and I put it online again.
This time everything was kind of different, as the "event" started at noon yesterday. On a public Facebook community focusing on service design where I had posted the info with best intend earlier that day I got "strong" head wind. First I was kind of confused, could feel my heart race a bit higher than the normal pace. Over the course of the day, after I had made the point clear that this wasn't meant to make a profit rather to enable all people interested in the field of service design and this past Global Service Jam 2015, especially the ones who couldn't attend in person, or didn't know about it yet to get at least a glimpse of what it was about.
The prototype is coming to an end tonight at midnight (UTC +1) and if you got curious of what this is all about have a look at this Eventbrite-page and check on how you'd become part of the journey.
PS.: I am grateful to my friends Göran Nitsche (Germany), Christian Meyer (Germany), Bruno Winck (France), Ulrike von Rücker (Egypt), Love Okochi (Nigeria), Angela Incampo (Italy) who have supported me along the journey and have given me the mental strength to stay focused
Modifications and events since original posting of 2nd prototype (decreasing order timely):
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| Screenshot via Eventifier |
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| Screenshot via Eventifier #smw15 |
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| Screenshot via Eventifier #LichtjahrDD |
In order open up all the information about the Global Service Jam 2015 on the social web to get included in the Eventifier "event" it is necessary to upgrade to BASIS for an amount of $49 (!) to enable it to stay public for one month.
So I thought, "Why not use the notion of creating a new service while the Global Service Jam is on - a digital one?"
As I had already some experience with #GSP14 I decided to use Eventbrite to make it happen via a mini-scale crowdfunding. A 1st prototype on Sunday did not raise much awareness nor supporters. With the trial still able to be explored in part for the next couple of days I decided yesterday morning to run a 2nd prototype with slightly different ticket types and changed text. In the morning I got support from a dear friend from Nigeria, Love Okochi, with whom I had been on team during the 'Technology Entrepreneurship 1' MOOC run by Prof. Chuck Eesley back in 2013. With his help we changed some of text and I put it online again.
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| Screenshot via Eventifier (mod.) |
The prototype is coming to an end tonight at midnight (UTC +1) and if you got curious of what this is all about have a look at this Eventbrite-page and check on how you'd become part of the journey.
PS.: I am grateful to my friends Göran Nitsche (Germany), Christian Meyer (Germany), Bruno Winck (France), Ulrike von Rücker (Egypt), Love Okochi (Nigeria), Angela Incampo (Italy) who have supported me along the journey and have given me the mental strength to stay focused
Modifications and events since original posting of 2nd prototype (decreasing order timely):
- Article on Pulse - recent article on the journey and learning around it on Pulse
- No 3rd prototype - all done thankfully to @GSJLeeds on Eventifier
- Platinum Sponsor - fixed amount ($52 incl. fees) for one month BASIC plan, one sponsor ticket
Montag, 2. März 2015
#GSP15 - Sometimes Slowing Down is the Wiser Alternative to Accelerate Later
It is been around this time in 2011 when I had applied for the first time to Singularity University's most prominent technology-orientated entrepreneurship program: Graduate Studies Programme
What really drove me into applying for this 10-week program with a 25,000 $ price tag (leaving the travel expenses on top of it) was that I had watched a short three minute movie trailer two years earlier. The movie connected to it, "Transcendent Man" which had made it in the Tribeca Filmfestival (The World Feature Documentary Competition) 2009, tells the story of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. Directors Barry and Felicia Ptolemy in their own words about the movie in this interview at IndieWire from 2009 on how the making of it came into being and what pulled them to do it.
Soon after this learning about the founding of Singularity University and Ray Kurzweil's TED talk about it made me grow more curious about it. TED has just partnered with dotSUB a video translation tool startup so that subtitles in other than the original language to the TED talks were possible to do. As we had started the prototyping of largely digital technology driven startup accelerator in Dresden, LockSchuppen (the name stems from the envisioned space within an unused railway shed (Lokschuppen) and the notion to "unlock" creativity of entrepreneurs, citizens and institutions as well as organizations) we translated in a crowdsourced way this into German. The compensation was rather innovative: every participant in the translation process gained for each translated line a certain amount of "virtual shares" of the future LockSchuppen company (which by that time only was an idea and working concept).
In 2011 after applying for #GSP11 at the last possible time slot I was happy to receive a place, but with the challenge to raise 25,000 $ within 7 days. Back then this was impossible and shortly after I had got the message I was invited as blogger-in-residence to a week-long tech conference in Sydney, Australia.
The events this summer however pulled even more interest to attend the Graduate Studies Programme, especially as Dresden and the region are a major economic and research cluster for new technologies based on semiconductors and new materials. "Wouldn't it make sense not only to attend the program for 10-weeks and being a living in the system acting ambassador for all the stakeholders back in Saxony?"
From 2012 to 2014 I applied another three times, and shortly after the message had come out for the 2015 application the news hit the road:
You might expect that would be a free ride for all? Not so. You had to find to respected people in your network who would write a reference letter about your achievements and potential value to the program, doing a two-minute video on why you are the right person to go, and other writings about your past achievements.
I was well underway, everything looked good - then "#ULab: Transforming Business, Society and Self" at the MOOC landscape in early January for an intensive 6-weeks course.
This changed everything. For 2015 there will be definitely no #GSP15 for me, all who want to know more about what it is like read into the interview Angela and and myself gave to Eventifier on why we made a crowdfunding campaign (a smallish one) to enable the world to learn more about Singularity University, Peter Diamandis' and Ray Kurzweil's ambitious vision and the experiences of the people attending the 10-weeks at NASA AMES Research Center.
What really drove me into applying for this 10-week program with a 25,000 $ price tag (leaving the travel expenses on top of it) was that I had watched a short three minute movie trailer two years earlier. The movie connected to it, "Transcendent Man" which had made it in the Tribeca Filmfestival (The World Feature Documentary Competition) 2009, tells the story of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. Directors Barry and Felicia Ptolemy in their own words about the movie in this interview at IndieWire from 2009 on how the making of it came into being and what pulled them to do it.
Soon after this learning about the founding of Singularity University and Ray Kurzweil's TED talk about it made me grow more curious about it. TED has just partnered with dotSUB a video translation tool startup so that subtitles in other than the original language to the TED talks were possible to do. As we had started the prototyping of largely digital technology driven startup accelerator in Dresden, LockSchuppen (the name stems from the envisioned space within an unused railway shed (Lokschuppen) and the notion to "unlock" creativity of entrepreneurs, citizens and institutions as well as organizations) we translated in a crowdsourced way this into German. The compensation was rather innovative: every participant in the translation process gained for each translated line a certain amount of "virtual shares" of the future LockSchuppen company (which by that time only was an idea and working concept).
In 2011 after applying for #GSP11 at the last possible time slot I was happy to receive a place, but with the challenge to raise 25,000 $ within 7 days. Back then this was impossible and shortly after I had got the message I was invited as blogger-in-residence to a week-long tech conference in Sydney, Australia.
The events this summer however pulled even more interest to attend the Graduate Studies Programme, especially as Dresden and the region are a major economic and research cluster for new technologies based on semiconductors and new materials. "Wouldn't it make sense not only to attend the program for 10-weeks and being a living in the system acting ambassador for all the stakeholders back in Saxony?"
From 2012 to 2014 I applied another three times, and shortly after the message had come out for the 2015 application the news hit the road:
You might expect that would be a free ride for all? Not so. You had to find to respected people in your network who would write a reference letter about your achievements and potential value to the program, doing a two-minute video on why you are the right person to go, and other writings about your past achievements.
I was well underway, everything looked good - then "#ULab: Transforming Business, Society and Self" at the MOOC landscape in early January for an intensive 6-weeks course.
This changed everything. For 2015 there will be definitely no #GSP15 for me, all who want to know more about what it is like read into the interview Angela and and myself gave to Eventifier on why we made a crowdfunding campaign (a smallish one) to enable the world to learn more about Singularity University, Peter Diamandis' and Ray Kurzweil's ambitious vision and the experiences of the people attending the 10-weeks at NASA AMES Research Center.
Mittwoch, 24. September 2014
XPRIZE Global Learning Prize - A Bold Next Step
Just this Monday Peter Diamandis, founder and CEO of XPRIZE has announced the XPRIZE Global Learning Prize in New York City. The bold challenge for teams to enter this most ambitious, and broad XPRIZE competition is to develop a mobile solution that makes it possible for kids (and other age groups as well) to get literate in reading, writing and mathematics within 18 months through self-learning.
A more than ambitious plan to fulfill. Peter's past success list of starting (impossible seeming bold projects) include:
SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
ISUNET International Space University (based in Strasbourg, France)
SU Singularity University (based at NASA Ames Research Center, California)
"Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think" co-written with Steven Kotler
..... and now it is #LearningPrize
To make the #LearningPrize a success beyond imagination please consider supporting their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, which has per 2014-09-24 raised already 26% of the $500k funding goal.
Donnerstag, 7. August 2014
A Mission to Bring World Changing Ideas from Singularity University to the World
We are grateful to our supporters from Eventifier (Eventifier got acquired in 2015 and so the website is not in existence any longer), and especially Jazeel (co-founder of Eventifier) and Ty, who not only made an interview possible with us on why, and how the idea with the #GSP14 Twitter conversation capturing emerged. Additionally touching the field in which way this might have a further positive impact on bringing new technologies and approaches to tackle present challenges of humanity to use, and the role technology hubs will play in the future.
.... here you'll find the interview (Eventifier has been acquired in 2015, and so the link is not valid any longer)
A Mission to Bring World Changing Ideas from Singularity University to the World
Taking on humanity’s grand challenges in education, energy, environment, food, health, poverty, security, space, and water is larger than life mission. Launched in 2008, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Singularity University (@singularityu) has an audacious mission of fostering local innovation through technology on a global scale. Singularity University’s start-up accelerator has empowered entrepreneurs from more than 85 countries to apply exponentially growing technologies, generating more than 100 startups, and numerous patents.
Equally challenging is the goal of helping individuals, businesses, institutions, investors, NGOs, and governments understand these cutting-edge technologies, and how to utilize them to positively impact billions of people. This is the goal of Dresden, Germany, based technology advocates Ralf Lippold and Angela Incampo.
We happily stumbled across Mr Lippold’s and Ms Incampo’s fascinating efforts when they launched a crowdfunding campaign to use Eventifier to bring the innovative ideas discussed at Singularity University’s recent graduate studies event #GSP14 to the world. They were kind enough to grant us an interview so that we could learn more about the story behind their campaign.
Please Tell Us About Yourselves
Ralf Lippold: I have studied economics and my work background is in logistics, and applying digital technology to production processes as done at BMW Plant Leipzig. I am passionate about social media and how it can be used effectively, and value-adding in a business context. Generally, I am appealed by technology and consider myself to be a global, connected citizen. I am running a blog specifically about the developments around Singularity University called Blue Future 2012. There is so much potential if ignited by the right cause. This is what drives me.
Angela Incampo: I am a Customer Advisor Professional from Italy. Ralf is my partner, on a professional and private level. I enjoy tweeting, but Ralf is better with tweeting. I’m more of a blogger.
What is Your Goal for The Singularity University Campaign?
Ralf Lippold: First of all, I have to say that I was not able to attend the event. The intent of this project is to document the social media conversation from the 2014 Graduate Studies Program#GSP14 at Singularity University on Twitter using Eventifier for interested audiences, the participants and supporters of #GSP14, and me of course. I’m deeply convinced that the information and knowledge flowing during the 10 weeks at #GSP14 is of interest to many people.
Why Should Anyone Follow What is Going On At This Singularity University Event (#GSP14)?
Angela Incampo: We strongly believe that it is a shame when information is closely held or disappears. We want more people to be able to participate in the (online) conversation coming out of Singularity University as not everyone can be accepted to attend. Through social media, people can know what is going on and are able to participate in the conversation themselves.
Ralf Lippold: Some of the founders of Singularity University, and its faculty members are tweeting during the sessions. Participants of #GSP14 are tweeting about what they are listening to, share additional information and connect with people from the specific field. There’s an opportunity for you to learn about the people and innovative topics discussed. Also, this makes it easy for anyone to connect with the people there. Some of the attendees are start-ups, and they have an interest in getting exposure to relevant stakeholders. Also, it is -from our point of view- important for politicians and people to connect with these ideas and be exposed to them. Technology is a hot topic in our fast-paced world, and this event will be a conversation enabler.
Why Did You Decide to Crowdfund?
Ralf Lippold: I have done some experimenting with crowdfunding and have seen people be very successful here. This time it is an experiment whether digital communication has the ability to spread, and connect a “technology conference” with the interested public. The payback you’ll get with the contribution is that the event coverage of the upcoming 10 weeks will be presented to you (and others of course) and I will be writing articles on my blog BlueFuture2012. We are also open to other ideas on what we could give you back as a contributor.
Angela Incampo: Another idea that you can do with crowdfunding for the future is to help influencers who add value and are heavy tweeters attend events like Singularity University. Of course, that individual has to have a real need and personal passion about the topic and the drive to dig into the topic. By attending, they can accelerate the whole thing - especially if they are well recognized and willing to share from their own social media accounts.
How Do You See Eventifier’s Documentation of the Social Media From Singularity University Helping?
Ralf Lippold: Angela and I started taking more of a social media approach to online coverage for conferences. This brought me to use Eventifier last year for an event. We also used it to cover an event for the United Nations University. Eventifier helps with a multi-session conference for attendees and interested parties to keep up with the knowledge sharing with the use of social media. When you have more than one session to attend at a time, or when you have no money or are not able to make it, you can always go back to revisit the content. This has helped me get connections in real-time and get conversations going beyond the conference rooms.
Another example, when we followed the 26th International Cartographic Conference in Dresden last summer. With Eventifier, we are still in the conversation because we can reach out to people based on content captured in the social stream even though the conference is long over. It is a much more convenient way to connect with individual people, especially with time zone differences.
Angela Incampo: You may read something today that sparks an idea you may use in 6 months. Eventifier makes it possible to capture and store these ideas and go back in time when the time has come. Eventifier also allows you to see individual contributions to the conversation. This allows you to get more than just using the hashtag on Twitter.
People have a visual memory. With the visuals, you can easily go back to the person or to a video to bring it further. It is good to use hashtags on Twitter, but amongst 1,000 tweets one individual tweet can be buried or forgotten easily; it is harder to connect to meaningful information that way. With Eventifier it is easier to get back to the core of the information.
Thank you, Ralf and Angela, for telling us about your mission to bring the ideas from great events like Singularity University to the world.
Readers: Let us know what event you have coming up and why the world should know about it. If your organization wants to build awareness around ideas discussed at an upcoming event or conference, we’d love to hear from you!
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