People practicing disruptive innovation need a supportive environment of people and ideas that they can explore. It can be hard to do this when you’re working 24/7 on your own disruptive world.
Disruptive Diner is an event for networking and idea exchange around a shared vision of the future. Whether it is nanotechnology, rethinking financial markets, or finding partners in a sustainable future, the Disruptive Diner is a place to meet and explore ideas with like-minded peers in an intimate and non-selling environment.
Spring 2013 sessions in St. Louis included:
- February 5th: Cloud Civics – Public data and digital tools are scaling civic service and governance – learn how citizens can drive better government services by creating them themselves.
- March 6: Alternative Transactions – When we exchange money between buyer and seller, it moves through a complex system of intermediaries. Be part of a discussion on disrupting that system for the benefit of buyers, sellers and all of us.
- April 2: Fans Take Charge – Whether its licensed fantasy sports leagues, fan fiction that becomes big business, or grassroots conventions, the boundary between property and audience is blurrier than ever before, and many opportunities are emerging.
- May 7: 3D Printing Becomes Big Business – 3D printing has grown from a hobby to being poised to begin producing objects on-demand from previously unattainable materials using low cost machines. How can we use this virtualization of product innovation to serve the “long tail” of commerce, lower our use of resources, slash logistics costs, and change what it means to be a manufacturer or consumer?
Summer and Fall 2013 sessions will include:
- Big Data for Everyone Else
- The Gist of GIS
- Profitably Sustainable
- Nano Possibilities
- Local Re-Shoring, Local Wealth
- The Internet of Things
If you’d like to know when registration begins, would be interested in presenting or know someone who should be in the audience for any of these talks please contact us here or email Greg at greg@openlydisruptive.org.
Let us know if you’d like to be involved.
Interested for 2 reasons. First, I work for a small sandwich manufacturer in St. Louis. Our goal is to be a larger, very innovative manufacturer of sandwiches. We have limited resources and we also prefer to work with local companies. Second, I’m starting to work on ideas for starting my own business that has something to do with food, nutrition, web based – something very different from what is out there now. I would love to meet people to bounce ideas off of or, perhaps, meet people with the same interests and we can work with each other.
Thanks, Kathy. We’ll keep you posted on our upcoming sessions. With your focus on local partners, you might also be interested in Locavesting on June 13th, part of our series The Big Disruption.
Thanks again for commenting!
Best,
Dan