World Innovation Forum Wrapup
I recently had the opportunity to attend the World Innovation Forum (May 5-6, 2009) and a couple of pre-conference events on May 4, 2009 - the ?WhatIf! Innovation Forum and the Paul Saffo Workshop. I was invited to blog and tweet from the balcony at the World Innovation Forum as a member of the BloggersHub (sponsored by Pitney Bowes).
The conference lineup included - Paul Saffo, CK Prahalad, Vijay Govindarajan, Clayton Christensen, Fred Krupp, and Dan Ariely
I did a lot of live-tweeting at the event and have now finished up my blogging this week in David Letterman fashion with a series of Top 10 Insights posts. To wrap it up, here are my Top 10 World Innovation Forum Experiences (including private visits I scheduled while in NYC):
- The infamous Cinco De Mayo dinner
- Dan Ariely
- ?WhatIf! Innovation Field Trip (Apple Store and OZOlab)
- Clayton Christensen (2nd Session)
- TheVisualMD visit with CEO Alexander Tsiaras (blog entry coming soon)
- Making Boris Pluskowski laugh at my tweets
- ?WhatIf! Innovation Breakfast
- Brightidea visit with Co-founder Vincent Carbone
- BloggersHub Pizza Lunch
- Paul Saffo Workshop
Here are links to all of my Top 10 Insights posts:
- Paul Saffo
- CK Prahalad
- Vijay Govindarajan
- Clayton Christensen (1st Session)
- Clayton Christensen (2nd Session)
- Fredd Krupp
- Dan Ariely
It was good to finally meet the other innovation bloggers in person and to hear a lot of great speakers. The BloggersHub helped to extend the reach of the event to thousands of people around the globe who followed the tweet stream and blog posts, and several of the online conversations around points made by the speakers had me laughing out loud.
In the end, I came away with a few key insights that will help to shape my business, and a couple of thoughts for new white papers that I hope will advance our collective understanding of what it takes to successfully and continuously innovate.
Have you found this conference coverage useful?
Do you think more conferences should model the BloggersHub concept?
NOTE: If slides from any of the talks are shared with me or posted somewhere, then I will update my posts with embedded versions or links.
Braden Kelley (@innovate on Twitter)
Labels: Braden Kelley, Top 10, World Innovation Forum
posted by Blogging Innovation at 8:04 AM
7 Comments:
Thank you for sharing.
Braden,
As someone who was blogging alongside of you, I can say that your coverage of the event was outstanding (not to mention a very accurate record). And the infamous cinco de mayo dinner was at the top of my list too ;>)
Steve Todd
Thank you Steve for the kind words. It was great to meet you and wander the streets of NYC with you looking for food in the urban jungle.
I still am in awe at your ability to write and post blog entries during the event.
Cheers,
Braden
Your making me laugh was part of an evil plot to get me kicked out of the bloggers hub - you neglected to add that little tidbit of information.... :p Was a pleasure to meet you, and share in the odd chuckle or two whilst there :)
Best
Boris
http://www.completeinnovator.com
Alas Boris, I'll have to hone my 140 chars business comedy skills before we meet again.
You and Natasha are worthy foes for a humble flying squirrel and a large Canadian grass-eating mammal. ;-)
I'll be curious to see what you get up to next!
- Braden (@innovate on Twitter)
It was great to meet you in person, Braden. Thanks also for convening the dinner the last night - a nice way to end the conference. Looking forward to seeing you again in the future, and tweeting & blogging with you in the meantime!
Andrea Meyer
@AndreaMeyer
Yes Andrea - It was great to meet you as well and to have the opportunity to speak in person. I'm sure we'll run into each other again.
I look forward to reading more of your tweets and blog entries.
All the best,
Braden (@innovate on Twitter)
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