Featuring workshops approaching issues as diverse as Policy, Economic Development, Access, Health, Sustainability, and Organizing, the massive conference expects nearly 2,000 attendees. Five main co-sponsors, Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, World Hunger Year, Brooklyn’s Bounty and the PSFC, and over 120 partner groups, have jumped on board for the inaugural event.

Dodgeball.com founder Dennis Crowley will be sharing his latest venture at PSFK Conference New York:  foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative, gaming elements to encourage people to explore the cities in which they live. We’re looking forward to hearing about foursquare a special Show and Tell presentation on April 2.
Who are you and what do you do?
Hi, my name is Dennis. I try to build things that make cities easier to use. I’m currently working on a project called foursquare that experiments with turning nightlife into a social game. I spend the rest of [...]

Still considering whether to buy that ticket to PSFK Conference NYC next week? If you work in an advertising or marketing agency here are three topics on the agenda that should be very inspirational for you: BUILDING HEALTHY BRANDS WITH HEART, BRAND NEW RULES & NEW IDEA AGENCIES….

We’re excited to have Richard Fine, founder of Help Remedies, join us at PSFK Conference New York on April 2. Along with Jay Parkinson & Sean Khozin (Hello Health) and moderator Colin Nagy (PSFK/Attention), Richard will be discussing how inspiring innovations can be made – even in an industry resistant to change.
First, who are you and what do you do?
I am one of two founding partners at Help Remedies. Help is a collection of simple solutions to simple health problems. My friend Nathan Frank and I started Help because we think there is something wrong with the way we take [...]

This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation. There, Richard Banks (Microsoft) spoke about what he refers to as “digital heirlooms” and discussed the histories we are creating about ourselves through digital media and how future generations will interact with the artifacts we leave behind.
Richard considered the current products of our technology, such as the thousands of digital photos taken by people each year, and discussed their endurance over time. While previous generations left tangible objects, our current [...]

We’re excited to have Sara Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective as well as MEET at the Apartment speak at PSFK Conference New York on April 2. She will be joining Marc Schiller, co-founder of both Wooster and MEET (and her husband) in a discussion on art and commerce. They will explore the fine line between art and commerce and describe how, with consideration, the two can be respectfully blended to create new ideas.
First, who are you and what do you do?
I consider myself a change agent, always looking for opportunities to do things that have never been done before [...]

This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London, inviting our favorite innovators and thought leaders to present their current projects and share some of their own good ideas. One of the day’s most visually inspiring presentations came from Eva Rucki, one of the founding partners of Troika, a multi-disciplinary art and design practice based out of London.

Eva shared insights into the philosophy and ideas behind Troika’s varied work, covering graphics, communication, art, product design and engineering, with a focus on the iterative process employed in the development of their projects.

On April 2, 2009, PSFK will [...]

We’ve very excited to have Dr Jay Parkinson of Hello Health join us at PSFK Conference New York on April 2. Along with Sean Khozin (Hello Health), Richard Fine (Help Remedies) and moderator Colin Nagy (Attention), Jay will offer his insights on improving communication in the healthcare industry, and between brands and users in general, through the incorporation of technology and social media.
First, who are you and what do you do?
My name is Jay Parkinson and I’m a physician who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was trained at Johns Hopkins in preventive medicine and pediatrics. I realized just what a [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. For our Good Ideas in Design session, long time PSFK contributor Amanda Gore led an eclectic panel, including Cameron Leslie, founder of the Fabric and Matter nightclubs, Coralie Bickford-Smith, designer of amazing book covers for Penguin books, Kate Moross, creative extraordinaire, and Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke and Hulger in a conversation on how design can-and must- weave a story between an audience and a product, service, and brand.
The panel spoke quite extensively about the creative process and there seemed to be a general consensus amongst the panelist that playfulness [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. After Mark Earls spoke on Why Good Ideas Matter, the discussion moved to a panel of Londoners who discussed Good Ideas from London. Given the question: “What positive inspiration is growing out of London’s creative renaissance?”, moderator Matt Hardisty (AnalogFolk), Matt Brown (Londonist), Justin Quirk (FHM), Taryn Ross (Urban Junkies), and Paul Andrew Williams (Steel Mill Pictures) explored empirical evidence used to compare the current creative climate of London to previous years to prove that London is still thriving culturally.
The panel discussed particular reasons why London was creatively unique and [...]

This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. Starting the day off, Mark Earls, author of Herd, began by discussing the importance of gathering inspiration across categories, market sectors, and groups – and ultimately, how to turn those insights into mass change. Effectively, Mark explains why innovation is important.
Mark Earls stressed that innovation is an exercise that needs to be practiced.  The mere process of looking for new ideas allows you to challenge whether or not your existing ones are any good. Even if a new idea is not perfect, it can still shine a new light on [...]

That’s right, you can now watch every single panel and presentation from our entire series of events.  New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Singapore – they’re all here, nicely organized and in embeddable players.
Want to hear how Shepard Fairey launched his career with a simple sticker?  How about what Regine Debatty had to say about what happens when artists mess around with technology?  What about the time we had Bootstrapping expert George Murphy interview the founder of Suicide Girls?
You can watch them all here:
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Heck, why not watch them on your iPhone?  They’re all [...]

At the PSFK Conference Asia 2008, Rob Campbell (Sunshine/M&C Saatchi) explains why he believes the future of brands is about creating fate – not advertising.  Claiming that ad agencies don’t know the difference between an idea and an “ad” idea, Rob describes why true creativity is more cost effective than common philosophies of formal research & development, distribution and brain-washing media spend.
Rob explains why companies who are looking for the ’single insight’ are wasting their time and that companies who understand people and culture – not categories – and who have a way to transform it into something that is [...]

At the PSFK Conference Asia 2008, Charles Ogilvie (Panasonic), Creative Designer and Inventor of RED, the award winning in-flight entertainment system for Virgin America, speaks about service innovation, new revenue models, and the use of airborne technology throughout Asia and the world at large.
From the drab grey seats and drop down projectors of just ten years ago, Charles describes the process he and his team went through when challenged by Richard Branson to figure out “What’s next in aviation?”
Interestingly, Charles explains that in addition to personal entertainment systems, mood lighting, and all the wizzy-wig technological concepts being tossed around, Asian [...]

Behance & Cool Hunting are teaming together to host a conference that “focuses less on idea-generation, and more on how inspiration and organization come together to make ideas happen.” More often than not, the realities of bringing ideas to life cause even the best ones to die a mediocre death. As Director/Curator Aaron Rose admits, “Managing budgets is the hardest part of any creative project.” While we don’t expect The 99% to get into the finer details of project management, we’re glad to finally see a conference that explores a side of the creative process that always gets overlooked — [...]