Good Ideas Salon London Update: Agenda Finalized

Great news – we’ve finalized who the speakers will be on the 30th. Over 30 of them will come and share their good ideas on various themes including youth, design, mobile, art, story telling and the media. Tickets are here: www.goodideassalon.com

Here’s the agenda as it stands now:

9.40 TALK: WHY GOOD IDEAS MATTER
Mark Earls, author of Herd, will discuss the importance of gathering inspiration across categories, market sectors, and groups – and how to turn these insights into mass change.

10.10 PANEL: GOOD IDEAS FROM LONDON
What positive inspiration is growing out of London’s creative renaissance? With one out of every eight Londoners working in a creative industry, the city is proving itself to still be one of the greatest places for creatives to live and work in the world. Led by moderator Matt Hardisty (AnalogFolk), a panel including Matt Brown (Londonist), Justin Quirk (FHM), Taryn Ross (Urban Junkies), and Paul Andrew Williams (Young British Film Director of the Year 2007) will explore what makes London tick, its multicultural environs – and what good ideas are coming out of the city that are exciting them today.

10.50 TALK: [title - TBC]
Eva Rucki, founding partner of Troika Design will present a talk on Good Ideas.

11.40 PANEL: GOOD IDEAS IN DESIGN
How do we use design to bring inspired ideas to life? Led by Amanda Gore (PSFK), a panel of leading minds from the creative community including Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin), Cameron Leslie (fabric/matter), Kate Moross, and Nicolas Roope (Hulger/Poke) will discuss how design can – and must – weave a story between an audience and a product, service and brand.

12.20 TALK: GOOD IDEAS OVER TIME

How do good ideas in technology fare over time? Richard Banks (Microsoft) will discuss the afterlives of our technological objects (both physical and digital) and the ideas that emerge when we start thinking about possessions in the long term – as heirlooms that will live on after we’re gone.
12.50 Lunch

1.40 TALK: GOOD IDEAS FOR COMMUNITIES
Designing for responsive communities: Artist Christian Nold will discuss how new, performative and embodied approaches to engaging our surroundings and those around us can create powerful change.

2.10 PANEL: GOOD IDEAS IN MOBILE
Growing mobile everpresence is unveiling new, exciting ways for us to explore, work, and play. Led by moderator Piers Fawkes (PSFK), mobile experts Mike Butcher (Journalist/Mbites), Dan Hon (Six to Start), Matt Jones (Dopplr), and Jonathan MacDonald (Ogilvy) will examine the diverse opportunities developing at the intersection of mobile, location and the web.

2.50 PANEL: GOOD IDEAS & YOUTH
Whether we know it or not, connecting to youth today requires fresh inventiveness and a different way of thinking. In a conversation led by Jeff Squires (PSFK), Paul Graham (Anomaly UK), Terry Guy (Monorex/Secret Wars), and Jenny Owen (Ruby Pseudo) will discuss what defines British youth culture today and creative, effective ways companies and organizations can create authentic, respectful relationships with an increasingly savvy and skeptical generation.

3.50 TALK: GOOD IDEAS IN STORYTELLING
An introduction to brand new storytelling: Colin Nightingale, Creative Director of Punchdrunk and Founder of Gideon Reeling, describes how he creates platforms for individuals to participate in their own entertainment, allowing them to be part of the story – as spectators, performers, and directors.

4.20 PANEL: GOOD IDEAS THROUGH COLLABORATION
Collaboration within and across industries has never been easier. Colin Nagy (PSFK) will lead a discussion with Kevin Anderson (The Guardian), Pat Connor (BBC), Jeremy Ettinghausen (Penguin), and Sophie Howarth (School of Life), about the opportunities and advantages of working together for creative individuals, businesses, and brands.

5.00 TALK: GOOD IDEAS IN MEDIA
Simon Waldman (The Guardian) will discuss the good ideas shaping – and saving – a rapidly evolving industry. He’ll discuss the different ways the leading UK newspaper has established itself in the digital realm through opening their content and their sites to their communities of readers and users.

Tickets here: www.goodideassalon.com