Aug 24 2010
brennahUncategorized
The Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity
A Multi-Perspective Panel Discussion
Register here.
“Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And, when these masses of people collaborate, they can advance the arts, culture, science, education, government and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways.”
–Dan Tapscott
We all feel the impact of increased bandwidth and connectivity. Content creation and distribution flows freely like never before. With supercomputers tucked into our purses or pockets, most of us are constantly tethered to the larger world around us. Our panelists will explore the powerful value, as well as the hidden costs of ubiquitous bandwidth.
Our panelists will consider:
- Does connectivity make us more creative? Does it make us more likely to work cooperatively to outperform the individual or reach a higher collective truth?
- Does connectivity make our lives more meaningful? What impact does living in a world where we’re ‘Always On’ have on our personal relationships?
- Does connectivity allow us to transcend barriers? What might connected cultures look like in the future? Does increased connectivity increase the democratization of technology?
- What are the necessary conditions to ensure success with ubiquitous bandwidth and connectivity? What potential pitfalls do we face in a world seemingly addicted to connectivity?
- What does increased bandwidth mean for innovators, who tend to be outliers in society? What is the impact of increased connectedness on outliers?
A few of our disgtinguished panelists:
Alexander J. Field
Professor Field is the Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and Executive Director of the Economic History Association.
His research focuses on two main areas. The first is U.S. macroeconomic history with a focus on technology and productivity. His book, A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth, will be published by Yale University Press this fall. The second, aimed at better integrating the human sciences, is reflected in his 2001 book Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, which won the 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences. Professor Field has published more than 50 scholarly articles.
Brinda Dalal
Brinda Dalal is the president of Dhoopa Ventures, and prior to that worked with PARC, Xerox and many of Xerox’s clients. She co-founded PARC’s clean technology initiative in 2003. She obtained a PhD from University of Cambridge in social anthropology, part of which included living with nomadic pastoralists in the Himalayas. Two questions drive Brinda’s work:
How do we systematically understand change as it occurs in human society?
How might we build innovations that radically shape the future?
Ray Abrishami
Ray Abrishami is the Co-Founder and Principal of InLinx Communication. He is the founding member of the WiMAX Forum which promotes the standards based broadband access technology. Earlier, he was the Senior Director of Engineering at Fujitsu and he brings the perspective from Technology and Enterprise to the discussion.
Pete DeLisi
Pete DeLisi is Founder and President of Organizational Synergies, a strategy consulting firm. Pete is respected for his ability to translate leading-edge thinking into practical organizational principles. His keen insights have been published in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Business Horizons and Journal of Management Inquiry.
Pete’s in-depth knowledge of strategy, organizational behavior, marketing and information technology, along with his broad and diversified educational background, have prepared him to bring a fresh and multidimensional perspective to the strategic challenges of the 21st century.
Ann-Louise Kardas
Anne-Louise represents Sprint’s Product and Technology organizations in Silicon Valley to identify, vet and negotiate potential partnership opportunities. She works closely with the VC community, startups and developer groups in the Bay Area. Anne-Louise’s educational background and personal interests revolve around political science, international relations and the impact of technology on developing countries and she brings a service provider’s perspective to the discussion.
Program:
6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking.
6:45 – Community dinner.
7:15 –SVII Business
7: 30—Feature Presentation – The Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity
9: 30—Closing
Pre-register here.
Aug 23 2010
brennahUncategorized
August Event Recap
August 4th’s Society Event cracked open our shells and set us to work applying improv skills to the world of innovation. Chris Miller, Ann Swanberg, and Jim Herriot led the group through improv exercises that demonstrated what it feels like to listen well, bring out the best in other people, and be open to crazy thoughts.
While improv may conjure up thoughts of “funny” or “silly”, Chris and his team brought the skills of improv down to the truly practical level. Improv skills were applied to questions like: How do you foster a meeting enviroment that doesn’t crush creativity? How do you get people to really connect and respond to each other in positive ways? How do you get people to open your emails?
True innovators will often hear the word “no.” Improv at its most basic level helps people stay connected to “yes.” If you missed the August event, you can find out more about Chris Miller and the LifePlays team atwww.LifePlays.com.
September 1st Society Event
Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity
A Multi-Perspective Panel Discussion
“Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And, when these masses of people collaborate, they can advance the arts, culture, science, education, government and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways.”
- Dan Tapscott
A few of our distinguished panelists:
Alexander J. Field
Professor Field is the Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and Executive Director of the Economic History Association.
His research focuses on two main areas. The first is U.S. macroeconomic history with a focus on technology and productivity. His book, A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth, will be published by Yale University Press this fall. The second, aimed at better integrating the human sciences, is reflected in his 2001 book Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, which won the 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences. Professor Field has published more than 50 scholarly articles.
Brinda Dalal
Brinda Dalal is an anthropologist who worked with PARC, Xerox and many of Xerox’s clients. She co-founded PARC’s clean technology initiative in 2003.She got her PhD from University of Cambridge in social anthropology. She founded Dhoopa Ventures and is driven by two questions: How do we systematically understand change as it occurs in human society? How might we build innovations that radically shape the future?
Ray Abrishami
Ray Abrishami is the Co-Founder and Principal of InLinx Communication. He is the founding member of the WiMAX Forum which promotes the standards based broadband access technology. Earlier, he was the Senior Director of Engineering at Fujitsu and he brings the perspective from Technology and Enterprise to the discussion.
Some discussion points:
* What interesting problems, ideas and solutions have emerged from the promise of unlimited bandwidth and such connectivity?
* In the midst of Foursquare and Groupon, what does it mean to be always online? ‘Real-time’ may be nice for search engines, but what about personal lives? For example, how do we address the Location paradox: On one hand, it does not matter where you are, as long as you are connected. On the other hand, it is more critical than ever for targeting information, announcements, marketing and even public service.
* In the Yottabyte era, companies (like Google, Amazon, Facebook) collect huge amounts of data. Data can be a double-edged sword: it can provide enormous benefits to consumers in terms of intelligence, experience, and engagement and can also prove to be problematic when privacy and data breaches happen.
* How are businesses dealing with this? What new business models are emerging? Today 2% of enterprise is on cloud, 16% virtualized. By 2015, 20% will be on cloud, 45% virtualized.
* Who owns the bandwidth and the connectivity? How do we provide equitable distribution and access in a responsible manner? What are the ethical, legal and moral issues that arise?
October 6th Society Event
Improvisation & Innovation:
A Powerful Duet in Art, Science & Business with Jeremy Sutton
Artist, author, educator and digital painting pioneer Jeremy Sutton demonstrates through spontaneous, improvised live art-in-action how he harnesses the creative power of improvisation to generate innovation on his digital canvas. During this exciting presentation you will see Jeremy, using state of-the-art digital paint technology, create a live digital portrait of musician, technologist and entrepreneur Howard Lieberman as Howard plays improvised music. Throughout the process Jeremy will share his decision-making strategies and provide insights into how the same principles can be applied in other arts, in science and in business.
Jeremy Sutton—world-renowned artist, author, educator, digital painting pioneer and Corel Painter Master—has drawn and painted for over forty years, and worked with digital painting media for the last eighteen. Please visit www.JeremySutton.com to see more of his artwork and www.PaintboxJ.com for his online training materials.
Jul 29 2010
brennahAnnouncements
Register here.
Improv: Off the stage and into your life.
SVII’s August 4th Society dinner will feature Chris Miller, co-founder of LifePlays—a company “created to bring the transformative skills of connective, embodied Improv to communities and innovative workplaces.”
LifePlays’ corporate improv workshops have fostered creativity, innovation, team development, and leadership at many companies, including Google, Microsoft, Genetech, and Whole Foods Markets.
From Chris:
Creativity and Innovation
Innovation often involves a leap, trust, risk. A leap of making new connections. Trust that support and encouragement are there. And the risk, that it might not work. To function in this way, you need to grow a culture that supports it.
In this ideal culture your aim is to bring out the best in everyone else; you listen to in order to support; you know that critical thinking is crucial and valuable, but there’s a time to suspend it and purely explore ideas; everyone sees the larger goal, not just personal gain. This is a generative, innovative culture. This is the culture and skill-set of improv.
Improv is a skill-set way beyond ‘being funny,’ or just ‘making it up.’ Come see how the skills that allow improvisers to create seamlessly on stage can be applied to creating seamlessly in other domains.
This will be a highly participatory session.
Education Initiative: Moving Forward
Because of the high level of interest, we will dedicate a portion (7-7:30) of our August 4th event to share some of the insights we’ve gathered so far about the current state of education and the impact that we can make as innovators.
Program:
6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking.
6:30 – Dinner is served.
7:00 – Education Initiative Update
7: 30—Feature Presentation –Improv: Off the stage and into your life.
Jul 26 2010
brennahMonthly Newsletters
July Event Recap
July 7th’s society event featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed.
Education Initiative
Our education initiative is off to a great start! We have use Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.
Building on the insights gathered, we hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email brenna@svii.org to be added to the list.
August 4th Society Event
Improv: Off the stage and into your life.
SVII’s August 4th Society dinner will feature Chris Miller, co-founder of LifePlays—a company “created to bring the transformative skills of connective, embodied Improv to communities and innovative workplaces.”
LifePlays’ corporate improv workshops have fostered creativity, innovation, team development, and leadership at many companies, including Google, Microsoft, Genetech, and Whole Foods Markets.
Chris writes:
“Improv is a skill-set way beyond ‘being funny,’ or just ‘making it up.’ Come see how the skills that allow improvisers to create seamlessly on stage can be applied to creating seamlessly in other domains.”
This will be a highly participatory session.
Education Initiative: Moving Forward
Because of the high level of interest, we will dedicate a portion (7-7:30) of our August 4th event to share some of the insights we’ve gathered so far about the current state of education and the impact that we can make as innovators.
September 1st Society Event
Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth and Connectivity
A Multi-Perspective Panel Discussion
“Billions of connected individuals can now actively participate in innovation, wealth creation, and social development in ways we once only dreamed of. And, when these masses of people collaborate, they can advance the arts, culture, science, education, government and the economy in surprising but ultimately profitable ways.”
- Dan Tapscott
Some discussion points:
- What interesting problems, ideas and solutions have emerged from the promise of unlimited bandwidth and such connectivity?
- In the midst of Foursquare and Groupon, what does it mean to be always online? ‘Real-time’ may be nice for search engines, but what about personal lives? For example, how do we address the Location paradox: On one hand, it does not matter where you are, as long as you are connected. On the other hand, it is more critical than ever for targeting information, announcements, marketing and even public service.
- In the Yottabyte era, companies (like Google, Amazon, Facebook) collect huge amounts of data. Data can be a double-edged sword: it can provide enormous benefits to consumers in terms of intelligence, experience, and engagement and can also prove to be problematic when privacy and data breaches happen.
- How are businesses dealing with this? What new business models are emerging? Today 2% of enterprise is on cloud, 16% virtualized. By 2015, 20% will be on cloud, 45% virtualized.
- Who owns the bandwidth and the connectivity? How do we provide equitable distribution and access in a responsible manner? What are the ethical, legal and moral issues that arise?
We have a three-member panel that we’re very excited about, but if you know someone who would add a unique perspective to this panel, please email us at friends@svii.org.
October 6th Society Event
Improvisation & Innovation:
A Powerful Duet in Art, Science & Business with Jeremy Sutton
Artist, author, educator and digital painting pioneer Jeremy Sutton demonstrates through spontaneous, improvised live art-in-action how he harnesses the creative power of improvisation to generate innovation on his digital canvas. During this exciting presentation you will see Jeremy, using state of-the-art digital paint technology, create a live digital portrait of musician, technologist and entrepreneur Howard Lieberman as Howard plays improvised music. Throughout the process Jeremy will share his decision-making strategies and provide insights into how the same principles can be applied in other arts, in science and in business.
Jeremy Sutton—world-renowned artist, author, educator, digital painting pioneer and Corel Painter Master—has drawn and painted for over forty years, and worked with digital painting media for the last eighteen. Please visit www.JeremySutton.com to see more of his artwork and www.PaintboxJ.com for his online training materials.
Jul 09 2010
Ashley ApelAnnouncements
New Education Initiative!
We are so excited to announce the beginning of a new Innovation Initiative!
Thanks to the GREAT success of our speaker event Wednesday night and the obvious interest of SVII friends and members, we have decided to start an education initiative focused on solving some of the issues surrounding our education system.
To hit the ground running and determine what we want to accomplish, the first meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 14th, from 10:45-12:00 at the SVII office.
We are located at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 in Menlo Park, directly across the street from the Caltrain station. Free underground parking is available.
Call-in information:
712-432-1630
code: 739595#
Questions can be directed to SVII’s newest assistant, Brenna Hall, at brenna@svii.org.
Hope to see you there!
Jul 07 2010
Ashley ApelAnnouncements
UPDATE!
A message from Howard Lieberman:
Tomorrow night’s program has taken on a life of its own, and in a departure from the traditional presentation/dialog, our panel members have driven the decision to begin a working group on education to accomplish something concrete in the form of an innovation initiative. They want results, in addition to conversation. This has resulted in two additions to our program.
1) We have an additional panel member: Cameron Curry. Cameron is the Executive Director of a group of three Independent Study Charter Schools. These schools use an approach to home schooling that tries to balance traditional schooling with the flexibility of independent study at home, including strong parental involvement. This group of schools also happens to do a lot with technology. Even though Cameron is based in San Diego, he is flying up here to join our panel.
2) Ken Ketch, who presented Group Mind Express, a wonderful cloud based collaboration tool earlier this year, has generously offered to help us capture, prioritize, and organize some of the insights this dialog will yield for the purpose of turing the rich conversation into an initiative. Please bring your laptop for this interactive portion of the evening.
3) Five panel members and a Group Mind capture session require a bit more time so we have expanded the program to two full hours from 7-9. This means we will begin serving dinner at 6:30 so the program can begin at 7PM.
The approximate new program structure for tomorrow is:
6:00 – Doors open for registration and networking. Please pre-register here!
6:30 – Dinner is served.
7:00 CALIBRATION – Program begins with calibrating panel presentations to set the stage for the following conversation about technology innovation and education.
7:45 CONVERSATION – Begin an interactive group dialog or conversation, of which Jitendra will try to capture significant portions with a digital flip chart built into Group Mind Express.
8:30 CAPTURE – Group Mind session to capture insights from the group, which we will evolve into an innovation initiative.
Please register here.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!
Jun 25 2010
Ashley ApelAnnouncements
Technologist’s Perspective:
Breaking the software glass ceiling for educators. Where is the “innovative” software infrastructure for education?
With a Panel Discussion
Register here.
Come to SVII’s July 7th Innovation Society dinner! Continue reading to learn more.
Presentation:
Our speaker panel, focused upon specific software implementations, not abstractions, will bring to light barriers that have kept this from happening at the faster pace technology is adopted in commercial sectors.
K-12 and higher education applications are both lacking, except in specialized areas of research that have “practical” applications (e.g., Genomics).
Is it just a matter of money? What are the success stories (e.g., Tuft’s Perseus)? What are the blockers and why can’t we unblock them?
Please bring your laptops for an interactive discussion.
Please email questions for the panel to Howard at hlieberman@svii.org.
Moderator:
Howard Lieberman
Panelists:
Ruben Kleiman of Netflix
A software developer, philosopher, artist, linguistics scholar, and math wizard, Ruben joined Apple in 1987 where he was part of Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, developing multimedia systems, creating the first interprocess-communication module, and co-designing and prototyping the Applescript language. He has also worked at SGI, Commerce Games, Climbin’ Design, and most recently Netflix where he works with metadata to develop movie matching and movie categorization rule systems.
Murugan Pal of CK-12 Foundation
Murugan is the Co-Founder and President of CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market worldwide. Prior to CK-12, Murugan was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Foundation Capital. He has also founded SpikeSource and worked at the software companies Asera, Inc. and Oracle, and was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporations Object Database.
Mark Miller of The Miller Institute for Learning with Technology
Mark is the Founder, President, and Executive Director of The Miller Institute, an organization aimed at helping children use technology more effectively for learning. Prior to founding the Institute, Mark served as Lab Director for Learning and Tools at Apple Computer where he was head of educational technology investigations. Mark has also worked at Texas Instruments, Inc., Central Research Labs and taught courses at the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University.
Blog: http://blog.thatshouldntmatter.com/
Jim Spohrer of IBM
Director of IBM University Programs (IBM UP) since 2009, Jim founded IBM’s first Service Research group in 2003 at the Almaden Research Center with a focus on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) for Service Sector innovations. He led this group to attain ten times return on investment with four IBM outstanding and eleven accomplishment awards over seven years. Working with service research pioneers from many academic disciplines, Jim advocates for Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Design (SSMED) as an integrative extended-STEM framework for global competency development, economic growth, and advancement of science.
Jun 25 2010
Ashley ApelMonthly Newsletters
June Event Recap
June 2nd’s Innovation Society dinner was full of new faces, interesting conversations, and a great panel! Thanks to Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Jordy Mont-Reynaud, and Lukas Biewald, the evening’s event was chock-full of intriguing information and lots of laughter. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Event Topics
We are very pleased to announce our speaker event topics through the end of the year. Details for many are still being ironed out, but mark your calendars for the following months!
July 7th
Technologist’s Perspective: Breaking the software glass ceiling for educators. Where is the “innovative” software infrastructure for education?
With a panel discussion
Speakers: Ruben Kleiman of Netflix, Murugan Pal of CK-12 Foundation, and Mark Miller of The Miller Institute for Learning with Technology
Moderator: Howard Lieberman
Our speaker panel, focused upon specific software implementations, not abstractions, will bring to light barriers that have kept this from happening at the faster pace technology is adopted in commercial sectors.
K-12 and higher education applications are both lacking, except in specialized areas of research that have “practical” applications (e.g., Genomics).
Is it just a matter of money? What are the success stories (e.g., Tuft’s Perseus)? What are the blockers and why can’t we unblock them?
August 4th
Improv: Off the stage and into your life. A core life skill that has no manual.
With speaker Chris Miller
Improv is a skill-set way beyond “being funny”, or just “making it up”. Come see how the skills that allow improvisers to create seamlessly on stage can be applied to creating seamlessly in other domains.
This will be highly participatory. Improvisation (also called adaptation) is one of life’s core competencies. As no plan ever survives engagement with reality all of us still have to find ways to execute upon our intentions. Clarity of intention coupled with real time flexibility carries the day.
September 1st
Impact of Ubiquitous Bandwidth on Innovation
With a panel discussion
October 6th
With painter Jeremy Sutton and musician Howard Lieberman
Topic TBD
November 3rd
With speaker Jim Fruchterman of Benetech
Topic TBD
December 1st
With speaker Bruce Pittman of NASA
Topic TBD
Community Billboard!
Introducing the Community Billboard! Created as a place to post inquiries, musings, thought-provoking ideas, or just a simple shout-out to the greater Innovation Society community, we hope it will help connect people and stimulate conversation.
If you would like to post something in next month’s newsletter, please email us at friends@svii.org, subject title Community Billboard.
May 21 2010
Ashley ApelAnnouncements
Trim the Fat: Applying Lean Startup Concepts to Entrepreneurship, Life, and the Creative Process
With a Panel Discussion
Register here.
Come to SVII’s June 2nd Innovation Society dinner! Read on to learn more! Also, stay tuned for our May newsletter describing event topics and speakers through the fall season.
“Every entrepreneur must learn how to run a lean startup. It’s how you do more with less money.”
-Babak Nivi
The Lean Startup movement is taking Silicon Valley by storm. Its concepts like “minimum viable product” and “customer development” have helped startups like IMVU turn their vision into a profitable reality. But do they have a broader relevance? How could they apply to personal growth? Does such a rigorous methodology have its place in the creative process?
Join us for an engaging conversation on June 2nd!
Panelists:
Dr. Bernard Mont-Reynaud
After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, Bernard Mont-Reynaud did research at INRIA, then left for Stanford University where he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer
Science. He taught CS at UC Berkeley, until called to join research in music analysis at CCRMA. The analysis, visualization and perception of music and audio have been major themes of his work over the years, along with image processing, real-time systems and advanced UI design. Places he has worked include Lucasfilm, TDW, Xerox PARC, Studer Editech and FXPAL. He is also the former Chief Software Architect at Sony’s “Super Audio Project” R&D facility in San Francisco.
Jordy Mont-Reynaud
After becoming the youngest ever chess master in the United States at the age of 10, Jordy attended Stanford University where he received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems. After graduating he worked as a Software Engineer/Product Manager for Digital Chocolate. Jordy is currently the Mobile Developer for the social networking site Bebo, located in San Francisco.
Lukas Biewald
Lukas founded CrowdFlower, a “labor on demand” startup, in 2007. Prior to that he was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company that was acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science. He is an expert-level Go player.
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