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ContactThe Evolution Will BE socialized
October 20, 2011New York, NY…and the world
An extraordinary event on Oct 20, 2011 that will bring together technology innovators, change agents, social innovators, artists, corporations... And others that believe the Internet will have a role to play in bringing about a better world for all of us!
Contact is not just another conference!... It marks one event that is part of a larger process of bringing these change agents together...
What Is Contact?
Douglas Rushkoff
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values.
Doug has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University, serves as technology columnist for The Daily Beast, and lectures around the world.
Doug is known for pioneering important terms and concepts, including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency.
Visionary Host
Clay Shirky is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.Scott Heiferman is CEO and a co-founder of Meetup, a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. As of April 2008, five million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others.
Heiferman also co-founded Fotolog and i-traffic. Prior to founding i-traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title "Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. In 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review awarded Scott "Innovator of the Year" for his work with Meetup. He graduated from The University of Iowa in 1994 and has posted a photo on his personal Fotolog for every day since 2001.
A Band of Featured ParticipantsIncluding…
Dave Winer Dave Winer in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
David Weinberger David Weinberger is a technologist, commentator, and the co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, which is recognized as the Bible by most Internet marketers. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of MoveOn.org, and the organization's current Board President. Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, Moveon.org founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization. During the 2004 US Presidential Election, Pariser co-created the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest and raised over $30 million from small donors to run ads and back Democratic and progressive candidatesRachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. She holds her degree from Barnard College in the field of Women’s Studies, where online activism and organization for women’s issues sparked her interest in the transformational power of new mediA
A Band of Featured ParticipantsIncluding…
Micah L. Sifry is a co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a daily website and annual conference on how technology is changing politics.He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world.He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent being Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman.He is also an adjunct professor at the Political Science Department of the City University of New York/Graduate Center, where he teaches a course called “Writing Politics.”Venessa Miemis is a futurist and digital ethnographer, researching the impacts of social technologies on society and culture and designing systems to facilitate innovation and the evolution of consciousness.She earned a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in NYC.She is the founder and editor of Emergent by Design, and a principal organizer with Doug Rushkoff of the CONTACT conference.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete" - Buckminster Fuller
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. - Margaret Mead
An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products
they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to
lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing
online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections….
David Pescovitz, Institute for the Future
We Live In a Connected World...
What opportunities does this present to make the world a better place? This is the question that we must all ask...
The Network is an Organism
Human Ganglia
The Network is an Organism
Internet server connections
The Network is an Organism
Facebook friend connections
•Technology connects people as never before Spurring a new culture of creation; its tenets:
◦ Openness: Using network power for transparency ◦ Ubiquity: Capabilities, resources wherever they are
needed◦ Peer To Peer: No centers, flexible structures ◦ Organic: Learns, changes through doing◦ Bottoms Up: Scale is an effect, not a cause ◦ Rules Based: Chaos, yes; anarchy, no
The network fuses individuals into an organism
Power To (and From) The People
A New Form of Creation
Viewing Today’s Social Networks As The “Old Guard”
The Networked World Presents Tremendous Opportunity and
Challenge!
WHAT CAN WE DO TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS
NETWORK, CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER, DEVELOP NEW
TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES AND CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE
BETTER?
Social Networking P2P technologies Open Collaboration Open Infrastructures Alternative Currencies Government 2.0 Crowdsourcing Arts, new media and technology
Key Themes
The New Paradigm
Government: Wikileaks Technology: Opensourcemesh.org Consumer Goods: Openmaterials.org Entertainment: Ex.fm Art: Furtherfield.org Education: Swivel.com Finance: Commongoodbank.com Sustainability: Gridwise.pnl.gov
With Impact Across Borders and Markets
The New Paradigm: some examples
Technology Innovators
Artists
Cultural Revolutiona
ries
Visionaries
Social Innovators
CONTACT:A Nexus for
Change
Join the conversation... Shape the dialogue... Shape our collective future!
High visibility amongst network of change agents
Visibility into the cutting edge... Access to innovators, innovative
projects, revolutionary technologies The opportunity to engage and to co-
create...
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU
How would you like to be involved?
Peer Pioneering: You build it; they will come Ideagoras: Crowd sourced products, ops Prosumers: I am he and you are me and we
are all together P4P: Platforms for Participation, P2P on
steroids Global Factory: Virtualized manufacturing Wiki Workplaces: Ad hoc communities define
the professional environment Crowdfunding: tapping the masses for funds
Spawning New Business Models
Organizations, governments must understand the emerging ‘maker’ movement right now
Like the movements behind open source, cloud, IM, RSS, WWW…..only stronger
The crucible where future internet transformation is being forged today
Wait until the rebels hit the capital, and it will be too late to join up
The time to engage the future is before it rolls over you
Turn And Face The Strange
THE STRUCTURE OF THE EVENT
Burning Man meets Davos meets CES A day of creation and reckoning Gathers net organism leaders, ideas,
technologies An unpredictable outcome; crowdsourced onsite Not just hot air; resources + action F2F and P2P at the same time Power meets passion to make change real The first event to bring new culture and old
together A Paris Exposition for the 21st Century
Contact: Meet Your Future
On-stage provocations to fire ideas Anyone can propose a workshop topic Sessions created on-the-fly Audience members become leaders and vice
versa Crowd decides which ideas are best Best ideas get a second hearing Event flows from stage to crowd and back
Who Knows What Will Happen?
Selected Featured Participants stimulate audience ideas
Anyone can propose an instant workshop Audience members create, lead workshops Dozens of workshops in morning Reactions come back to main stage Best ideas flow out to afternoon meetings Three rounds of free-form meetings in all Result: Crowd sense of ideas worth support
The Audience Listens…and Leads
Heart of the afternoon’s content Spread all over the venue Ongoing workshop discussions F2F meets w/ experts, funders, companies Active mentoring opportunities Performances, both big and small Lots of chairs for impromtu get-togethers
The Bazaar: An Akihabara of Ideas
At end of day Bazaar becomes Beer Garden Last opportunity for ideas to bloom Like-minded can seek each other out Entertainment drawn from audience, net A community festival to fire the imagination
The Beer Garden
Partners. Propose programs for Contact Underwriters: Provide resources, capital,
talent for audience picked projects Sponsors: Become co-creators of the day Audience members: Come and bring your
team, your developers, your thought leaders
Organizations Play A Vital Role
Banner “Ads”: Big banners over main stage; let audience know you “get it”
Bazaar Voice: Your ideas have a place in the Bazaar
Bazaar Shout: A prominent place in the Bazaar Bazaar Boom: A singular presence in the Bazaar Contact Cabaret: Put on a show, demo,
phantasmagoria You Tell Us: Propose the partnership you envision
Let Your Voice Be Heard
To enter the conversation:About the program: About
sponsorship:
Doug Rushkoff Suresh FernandoProducer and Host [email protected]
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