Notes for Action Group about the NEXT Next Economy conference
What worked well:
douglas rushkoff – great keynote speaker!
met a lot of cool people
facility worked well
unconference structure
powerful
stabilizing the field for change to happen
Lisa – living in boulder colorado
inspired to create a similar event there
inspired to create a complementary currency for boulder
editing “New money for a new world”
works in somatic psychotherapy. How would a conference like this incorporate embodied practices – a bodily experience of the change
moving from survival to abundance
experience in learning / not knowing
ecosystem of alternate currencies, now a variety of crypto currencies
intimacy / immediacy of the pod system – scales well (add more pods) – very interactive – people policed themselves well (civil balanced conversation)
Change for next time:
this venue would not be able to accommodate double number of people
dave sanford on board to help plan the next one
Lisa – inspired to create a similar event in Boulder, CO
Time – Schedule / Format:
better demarcations for beginning and end of the pod timeslots
generally worked well
Space – Physical Layout:
Pod D in the unmarket was tight when people trying to get by
near perfect for this size of a group
expandable pod size – extra chairs around, and an easier way to expand the circle
People & Content:
DS – personal cloud list, cloud security alliance; etc: tech meetups,
homesteading,
sustainability,
permaculture,
austin eco network,
open government
businesses in solar, greenhouse, greenling;
what's the evolving ecosystem
food trucks
small independent vendors
green corn folks – teaches organic farming, creating nodes in the network
Logistics:
plenty of food, but ran out of coffee
Keynotes:
DS like rushkoff, but find someone else for the next one
Distinguishing a different pattern. Incremental change in the current pattern will not get you there.
His energy level was great.
DS Recommends Andrew McCaffey – second computing revolution
Would be great for speaker to re-join conversation later in the day
Share some of our questions
Timing of the next event:
maybe another event during or around SXSW because they'll be already be in town
concurrent with rise conference, or sxswEco
Other Follow-up:
do a rise session on the conference
amala – possible venue for a monthly meetup
Next Steps:
Ben – EB9, local food economy, local entrepreneurs, making bitcoin easy to use
David – Meetup – hackerspace would also be happy to host
Brandon – how do you make it practical (working with ATX health network) – how to use it for the good of the community