FutureCurious Times 2017 Times | Page 31

the event / the workshop / the game changer : this is my most favourite event to organise and lead FutureThon Many hands may make “light work”, but many minds make the “impossible” work! A FutureThon is where people come together to transform today’s thinking into tomorrow’s reality. I n this extraordinary, one-off, absolutely unique event we will gather together your best and brightest, your staff, stakeholders, suppliers, collaborators, partners, customers, and clients and blend them with a room full of our own free thinkers, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, nerds, geeks, engineers, designers, students and potential users and give them all one clear directive: start from scratch (or an existing idea) and come back with a working idea, or prototype. appropriate scenarios and conversation starters, work with you to choose the best tribe of participants, build an event structure and agenda, assemble the tribe and crew, introduce the day, teach the participants how to collaborate and what to do, guide and support them throughout the event and then facilitate the pitch at the end – and between you and me along the way we’ll throw in a few surprises, rewards, twists and curveballs – just to keep the creative juices on edge and flowing. Generally, these events last from 2 - 8 hours (but they have been known to go 24 -48 hours as well), are filled with food, caffeine, prizes, and you guessed it, more caffeine and after time runs out the tribes demo what they’ve discovered and compete for prizes. Who’s this for? Behind the scenes we will work with you collaboratively to set the scene, develop New Product Developers, Innovators and Wisdom Seekers who want to see the world through the eyes of others, to discover the possibilities that may yet exist, to find new products, services and ways of doing things and who are open to the serendipity of a tribe st յ