Through a little serendipity, acidlabs has ended up as a partner for the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 19 February 2008. In the words of the Future Exploration Network, who are hosting the conference, it is:
An intensive half-day summit giving detailed executive perspectives on how Web 2.0 technologies can create value inside organisations. Speakers include Harvard Business School’s Andrew McAfee, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, Euan Semple, who implemented these approaches at the BBC, and Australia’s top experts and practitioners in the field. Case studies will feature how leading Australian organisations have benefited, and identify key success factors for implementation.
Key themes of the executive forum will include governance and policies to enable Enterprise 2.0, how to get business value from blogs and wikis, corporate policies on Facebook and social networks, giving power to end-users through online applications and mash-ups, how to improve access the best resources of the enterprise, and the change processes required to create the organisation of the future.
I’m very excited about this opportunity and am really looking forward to being there. There will be some great speakers! If you are coming, let me know so we can meet up.
In the meantime, I have a free ticket to give away to the person that sends me the best reason why I should give them the ticket. I will be deciding at lunchtime tomorrow, so you have about 24 hours.
My decision will be totally arbitrary, but I’ll give points for brevity (a Twitter direct message as an entry will get bonus points), strong reasoning (other than it being an opportunity for you to make money) and early entries. You can enter just one time, and can enter via Twitter direct message, or here as a comment. And you must be available and in Sydney on the 19th, otherwise you’re wasting your time.
Enter away!
Well, Stephen, a ticket for me would mean you’d have to endure my snarky writing about it for the next week, much like I’ve been doing on internet censorship and other political things. Humanity can only benefit.
Looks like we talk about a lot of the same things and share remarkably similar politics and interests! Outstanding to meet you. I’ll post the results here tomorrow.
Indeed, Stephen! I’ve been following your writing ever since it was pointed out to me by the illustrious illustrator Zern Liew who told me you were particularly cool.
Stil, Zern rocks. He is responsible for my artwork here and at Thoughtglue (art will *finally* go up tonight).
well…I sit next to you all day long..so how about we call it payback
now gimme the ticket!
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