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For anyone who’s looking for some inspiration this summer: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation will stage the first Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) in 2014. Bringing together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy.
Themes
A challenged linear ‘take make and dispose’ economy can be replaced by a more prosperous regenerative and circular economy – is this the ultimate disruption?
• SYSTEMS THINKING
• 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE
• MATERIALS AND ENERGY
• NEW BUSINESS MODELS
• DESIGN AND INNOVATION
• INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
• COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION
• INTERNET OF THINGS
An online festival on disruptive innovation with great speakers like Wired editor David Rowan and Rachel Botsman on the collaborative economy
Free registration here
Disruptive Innovation Festval
About the author
Menno is Director of the Sogeti Research Institute for the Analysis of New Technology (VINT). He mixes personal life experiences with the findings of the 19 years of research done at the VINT Research Institute. Menno has co-authored many books on the impact of new technology on business and society.