Day 1 of the Lift conference was intense and amazing. A fantastic collection of brains, amazing people and some mind-blowing speakers. Unlike North American web 2.0 style conferences, Lift really embraces the big social and economic implications of so-called web 2.0 and social media.
Pre-conference workshops at the University (I attended Stowe Boyd’s 3 hour workshop on building social software applications - HIGHLY recommended) warmed us up on Wednesday. It was a great idea to be gathering in smaller groups first, building those critical social relationships that make a conference like this worth much more than the price of admission.
Here are the topics and speakers I attended:
Do biologists dream of robotic art?, Regine Debatty & France Cadet
Collective Intelligence inside the enterprise, Lee Bryant, Headshift
Social = Me First, Stowe Boyd, Blue Whale Labs
What kind of Humanity do we want?, Paola Ghillani
Industrial Ecology - the future of hyperindustrial economy, Suren Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology
Outdoctrination: society, children, technology and self-organization in Education, Sugata Mitra,
Community on the net: going virtual in proportion to being actual, Sister Judith Zobelein
Communication technologies and new forms of social interaction, Lara Srivastava, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
How to live in a pervasively networked world, Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory
The luminous bath: our new volumetric medium, Ben Cerveny, Playground Foundation, Stamen
Everyware: Further down the rabbit hole, Adam Greenfield, Studies and Observations NYC
All this in ONE DAY! Fast-paced, dynamic and several WOW moments that blew the audience’s minds. I’m dying to review Cerveny’s talk again on video. I’m going to pick up Greenfield’s book.
Big theme: biological metaphors for the social web
Being the gadfly and connector I am, I discovered a dozen amazing people and started making introductions to people in Toronto and beyond.
I am now a Lift addict.
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February 20th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Some practical steps towards collective intelligence in the enterprise…
Looking beyond the immediate challenge of the adoption of social tools in the enterprise,
what can we hope to achieve when there is a healthy ‘flow’ of content, traffic and ideas flowing around internal networks? Companies with hundreds or thousands…