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Welcome to the Competition to Win Tickets to Ci2012 Master Classes!
Thursday, 26 July 2012
This week we are giving away two tickets to Ci2012 Master Classes. All you need to do is answer the question below.
We will pick two winners on Friday 10 August and winners will receive Master Class tickets valued at $250 each to hear from Author of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy Richard Rumelt (USA), innovation expert Scott Anthony (USA), Creative and innovation psychologist Dr Amanda Imber, Co-founders and Directors of One Thousand and One, Gabrielle Dolan and Yamini Naidu and plenty more. Click here to learn more about the Master Classes starting from $250 & the Deep Conversations from $125.
The Question is “What innovation will we need to survive in the future world?”
Post your comments below to be one of the winners for the amazing Master Classes!
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Will a Super-Connected World Make us Happier?
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Michael Rennie is the Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, Australia & New Zealand. In his presentation at Ci2011, he talks about “Will a Super-Connected World Make us Happier?”
He takes us on a very special journey of how he has endeavoured to not only “do things right”, but also to “do the right things”. He envisions the effects that technology can have on human connection and interaction, and how it can ultimately influence our basic happiness.
He shares his own life experiences and his study on positive psychology. He confers the effect of money, relationships, social media networks, and super-connectivity on happiness. Everything we do is primarily for happiness. But what makes us happy? The reason why social media networks are so successful is because they help to restore the idea of community in a world where we are geographically distant and awfully busy in our fast-paced lives. The sense of belonging to a community essentially increases your level of happiness and well-being. Happy people tend to have good family, friends and relationships. But it is not enough to be happy if you are surrounded by shallow acquaintances. We don’t just need relationships; we need close ones that involve understanding and care. Sometimes we don’t pay attention to the world around us. We just have to pause and look around us, smell a rose or watch children play and smile. It sounds simple but it works. According to Michael Rennie, “A world of super-connectivity without authentic intimacy is actually a world of isolation.”
Spare a moment to try his moving Heart Meditation.
Click here to watch his remarkably inspirational video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hB4Yzz9e9Q[/youtube]
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Book your early bird ticket today for Ci2012:
Tickets for our upcoming event Ci2012 (From 28 Nov-30 Nov) at Sofitel Melbourne, Collins Street, are now on sale at www.ci2012.com.au. Get in quick to register and take advantage of the early bird prices available.
10 scholarship places for emerging leaders are available & you can apply here: https://www.creativeinnovationglobal.com.au/Ci2012/scholarships/
A number of speakers for Ci2012 are interested in additional engagements during their stay in Australia which may include keynote speeches, workshops, breakfast, lunch and dinner sessions with boards, leadership teams and clients etc.
Enquiries and bookings for any speakers may be emailed to tania@creativeuniverse.com.au with proposed date, time, location and purpose of event. There is limited availability so please ACT quickly to secure time with one of these leading thinkers and innovators.
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Are we Dependent on Technology? Are we infact Enslaved by it?
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Dan Dennett is a world leading philosopher & cognitive scientist from USA and at Ci2011, he begins his presentation with a question: “Are we dependent on technology? And are we in fact enslaved by it?”. No surprises here – the theme of the conference IS ‘The challenges & opportunities of a super-connected world’.
But then he says something that scares me.
“Do you have a plan for how to keep doing business if the internet was to go down?”
No.
“Do papers, tv networks, hospitals & police stations?”
Now I’m terrified.
Undoubtedly, our lives do depend on technology.
The opportunities that have come with this technological age are almost immeasurable. But within this, we also have more opportunity than ever now to fill ourselves with guilt – now that we CAN do XYZ, we have no excuse. When XYZ still goes undone, we feel guilty. More than that – what jobs will exist in the future if technology is to continue its exponential growth as (other Ci2011 speaker) Ray Kurzweil suggests? Will doctors become “medical receptionists & doormen”, pushing a few buttons and smiling politely? Where’s the adventure in that?
There is light at the end of the tunnel. The increased transparency of information will fuel true democracy and spell extinction for dictatorships (but also security & privacy).
Whatever the future has waiting for us, strap yourself in for the ride.
As Dennett says: “There is no exit strategy”
Watch the Video here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFXlnOaZXuc[/youtube]
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Making Learning Surprising: the Interface of Education, Technology and the Economics of Business
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Professor Stephen Heppell (UK) is one of the leading experts on the use of ICT in education. His brilliant and humorous presentation at Ci2011 focused on the topic “Making learning surprising: The interface of education, technology and the economics of business”.
We live in a world where we come across many surprises which are a bolt from the blue – the ever-rising advancement of technology takes us so much closer to the boundaries than we could go before. There are always risks associated with every progression in the world. Certainly as technology advances, our risks will increase and our lives in this decade will be, as they already are, full of huge surprises.
For us all to endure as the surprises grow in scale and frequency we need people who are ready for anything, who take pleasure in challenges and know how to work together. These people can survive awful consequences and harness the finest opportunities. It is not adequate to just train our learners with the set of courses that characterized the last century’s factory schools. Our learners need to be surprised, astounded, enchanted and their learning lives need to be crammed with challenges and ambitions. An unvarying syllabus is an immense danger but is avoidable at the same time. Providentially new technology in the classroom is already injecting the surprise, bewilderment, aspiration and enjoyment that is required.
CLICK HERE TO SEE STEPHEN HEPPELL’S INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH at Ci2011
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opn2g7nYAjo[/youtube]
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Looking from the outside in – how to innovate in a crisis
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
2012 continues to be precarious. The global economy swings between signs of recovery and predictions of imminent collapse. Businesses appear paralysed. Though many are cash-rich, they’re risk-averse, strategically incremental and lacking in fresh ideas and innovation.
The challenge of the 21st century is to transform our organisations to adapt flexibly and rapidly to the ever changing and volatile environments we face.
We will have to reduce cost structures while increasing productivity, adopt new ways of working and invent business models that challenge old ways of thinking.
We have to maintain our commitment to innovation and growth even as we make the transition away from core businesses that have served us so well in the past.
The world needs leadership, invention and courage now more than ever. We need audacity not austerity.
It is a high stakes race to position ourselves to respond effectively to the dynamic challenges emerging around us.
Buckling down internally and struggling to approach innovation isn’t going to cut it; we will neglect to innovate or impact the outside world we operate in. Placing increasing expectations on government hasn’t worked either.
Rather than focus on our own organisations and individual sectors, its time to look from the outside in.
Cross-fertilisation of ideas is the name of the game for 2012 and in its third successful year, Creative Innovation 2012 will address big, wicked, problems that improve the economy and society as a whole.
Together we will learn, share and discover bold ideas and great business opportunities that spark a revolution for courage and change. We will come together; business, academia, government and not-for-profit and there’ll be international minds present too.
Ci2012 is the place to learn from world changing innovators, futurists, inspired thinkers and curious souls gathered together in an interactive community. From anthropology to technology, from economics to art and from entrepreneurship to science, Ci2012 brings together leading national and international minds to solve society’s wicked problems and provide its findings to the Australian government for review and comment.
To learn more about speakers, bookings and the program visit www.ci2012.com.au
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Prospective gains and losses from the information explosion
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Dan Dennett begins his presentation with a question: “Are we dependent on technology? And are we in fact enslaved by it?”. No surprises here – the theme of the conference IS ‘The challenges & opportunities of a super-connected world’.
But then he says something that scares me.
“Do you have a plan for how to keep doing business if the internet was to go down?”
No.
“Do papers, tv networks, hospitals & police stations?”
Now I’m terrified.
Undoubtedly, our lives do depend on technology.
The opportunities that have come with this technological age are almost immeasurable. But within this, we also have more opportunity than ever now to fill ourselves with guilt – now that we CAN do XYZ, we have no excuse. When XYZ still goes undone, we feel guilty.
More than that – what jobs will exist in the future if technology is to continue its exponential growth as (other Ci2011 speaker) Ray Kurzweil suggests? Will doctors become “medical receptionists & doormen”, pushing a few buttons and smiling politely? Where’s the adventure in that?
There is light at the end of the tunnel. The increased transparency of information will fuel true democracy and spell extinction for dictatorships (but also security & privacy).
Whatever the future has waiting for us, strap yourself in for the ride.
As Dennett says: “There is no exit strategy”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFXlnOaZXuc[/youtube]
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