PSFK Conference
For those who made it on Monday 22nd, thanks again for coming by and contributing to the discussion about PSFK’s next major event. The notes below are a a summary take-away I took from the meeting on .
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Event: PSFK Conference San Francisco (or a Good Ideas type event)
The event is designed to create solution and [...]
Since we held our PSFK Conference San Francisco in July 2008 things have changed. Of course, we all have economic challenges but in this environment we also have the need and, some would argue, duty to support the progress of ideas that overcome social and green issues.
This year I want to create an event [...]
Good Ideas Salons are small events held to spread ideas. Normally held around a theme the talks are videoed and added to our website so that people can view and share discussions around the world. PSFK has now held over 10 events and our friends are beginning to run these Salons in their cities.
We’d like [...]
Our roving photographer Dave Pinter caught a lot of the action at our recent Good Ideas Salon as we mixed entrepreneurs and freelance creative professionals in a room together.
The gallery is on Flickr.
Thanks to everyone who attended. And if you’d like to host your own Good Ideas Salon, drop Hedyeh Parsia a line at hedyeh@psfk.com [...]
The videos from PSFK Conference New York are now available (and embeddable) for your inspiration:
When Ideas Create Good
Open To Change
New York New Media
City As Canvas
Reconnect
Building Healthy Brands With Heart
Ghost In The Machine: Digital Multiculture
New Idea Agencies
This Platform Called Everyday Life
If you’ved missed our other conferences, you can always find our videos on our conference event [...]
At our 2009 New York conference, a panel led by Florian Peter (CScout) discussed how creators and the community openly come together to develop new thinking and make ideas happen. John Geraci (Outside.in), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Avner Ronen (boxee) and Domenico Vitale (PI&C) explain how they leverage open communities to develop new products, services and [...]
At PSFK Conference NYC, I had the opportunity to sit down with Edward Felsenthal, Executive Editor of The Daily Beast, to discuss his new online publication and the changes he’s seeing in the rapidly evolving world of publishing. The Daily Beast, launched in October of 2008, is a curated online news site created by Tina [...]
At PSFK Conference NYC, moderator David Pinter (PSFK) along with Sarah Beatty (Green Depot), Simon Collins (Parsons), Ryan Jacoby (IDEO), and Matthew Lusk (Hecho Inc.) discussed the meaning of “sustainability” today, and how economic and social conscience are driving the design of new products and services. Sustainability, explained Simon, is not just about creating eco-friendly [...]
At PSFK Conference NYC, Colin Nagy (PSFK/Attention) led a discussion with Help Remedies‘ founder Richard Fine and Hello Health’s Dr. Jay Parkinson and Dr. Sean Khozin about “Building Healthy Brands With Heart”. The panel touched upon the different ways their ventures were setting out to innovate an industry resistant to change. Richard Fine talked about [...]
At PSFK Conference NYC, Celestine Arnold gave an eye-opening talk on the “Ghost in the Machine: Digital Multiculture.” Celestine discussed the role of race and culture in video games - and the gaming industry’s failure to address (and successfully market towards) it. While minorities make up a disproportionately large percentage of the gaming community, most games cater to an assumed mainstream (white, male) player….
At PSFK Conference NYC, Kevin Slavin gave a captivating presentation on “This Platform Called Everyday Life”, in which he discussed the evolving nature of the objects surrounding us. Kevin, Managing Director and co-founder of Area/Code, explained how pervasive technologies are changing the way we relate to our physical environment and everything in it - from [...]
At PSFK Conference NYC, Danielle Sacks (Fast Company) led a thought-provoking discussion about the rise of the “New Idea Agencies” - companies that are thinking outside of the traditional client-agency model and creating their own products, brands, and intellectual property to launch direct to market. The panel, featuring Robbie Vitrano (Trumpet), Carl Johnson (Anomaly), Bart [...]
PSFK senior writer, moderator and regular photo-hound Dave Pinter has uploaded his top photos from the PSFK Conference NYC. You can see them here.
Also - check the PSFK tag for photos taken by the audience (and Dave) here.
We’re looking forward to having Maria Vranchnos (Peep Insights) share her ideas at PSFK Conference NYC 2009. Maria will be on a panel with moderator Gill Linton (The Joneses), Doug Jaeger (thehappycorp/Art Directors Club), Paul M Taylor (Diageo), and Paul Worthington (Wolff Olins) discussing the “brand new rules” needed to govern the behavior of brands [...]
PSFK is happy to feature RENTAL Gallery at our NYC Conference taking place on Thursday. RENTAL, founded by Joel Mesler in 2005, embodies an alternative vision of the traditional gallery model -based on artist representation - by offering a full-service platform for art galleries from the US and abroad to produce temporary art exhibitions within their NYC space. [...]
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