About the NESTA Uploading...Innovation Event

Uploading...Innovation takes place at NESTA on the afternoon and evening of 27 February 2007. starting at 1.30 with a light lunch and and running through to 6.30 with drinks to follow.

NESTA [1] is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - the largest single endowment in the UK devoted to innovation and has a publicly stated position ambition to becoming the single biggest catalyst for business, social and public policy innovation in the UK.

To help generate new inter disciplnary approaches to innovation NESTA have recently established NESTA Connect. [2]

NESTA Connect has a clear brief to explore how innovation can be stimulated through networks and collaborative working between different disciplines, organisations and places.

The Uploading...Innovation conference has been convened to help NESTA to learn from those people who have been at the forefront of the development of new participatory ways of working, those who have harnessed the network effects of emerging technologies of collaboration to create new business models, new products and services, to bring about culture change within organisations and disruptive innovation to their sectors.

Event Participants

We would like to invite 100 of the leading collaboratives in the UK into a conversation about how we shape our innovation policy and our programmes to ensure that they optimise the potential of the social, viral and community hallmarks of the Web.

With our partners at Policy Unplugged we have identified 100 people from a range of backgrounds including:

social software developers,
bloggers,
Web 2.0 start ups,
people working within private, public and not for profit organisations,
communication professionals,
writers and journalists

Whom we would like to bring together both on line and face-to-face on the afternoon and early evening of 27 February 2007 to start a conversation about participatory culture and its impact on how we should think about innovation in the UK.

Register

To register for this event click here. [2]

Event Format

The format for this event will be loosely structured, open and conversational. Our goal is to make it self organising and informal, but also to inform the development of NESTA Connects objective of providing the environment for innovation to flourish through supporting new connections and collaborations. Hopefully this will enable us and you to get the most out of the event.

Event Location

NESTA
1 Plough Place
London, EC4A 1DE
United Kingdom

Questions?