Conference Case Studies

[Chris Corrigan]

It's a small world...

There was talk about using OST at the 2003 Congress which was held in
Australia, and naturally I told them to contact me if they needed the names
of facilitators there, but I never heard back from them.

Feel free to share my paper with Angela...her organization paid me for it
after all!

Cheers,

Chris

On 10/14/05, Conrad Thimm <ConraThimm at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris:
> IFOAM is very interesting for me, an IFOAM Activist since 1977 and current
> board member of the IFOAM Organic Trade Forum. As such I facilitated an
> Organic World Café on the eve of last BioFach, the World's Organic Trade
> Show in Nuremberg, Germany, but no report has been finished. Now we are just
> starting to think about an event for the eve of next BioFach in Feb, 2006.
> Just 3 days ago I met the new IFOAM Executive Director Angela B. Caudle
> and told her about OST and COSO and she is very interested. Until your
> notice I had no idea, that anything like an OST had ever been done in IFOAM
> circles...
>
> best regards Conrad (www.ConradThimm.de <http://www.ConradThimm.de>)
>
> Datum: 13.10.2005 23:26:14 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit
> Beantworten: chris at chriscorrigan.com
> An: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>
> Hi there:
>
> I have a couple of stories I could tell, but I have actually written one
> up as a case study.
>
> It's a reflection on the use of OST within the International Federation of
> Organic Agriculture Movements congress held in 2002.
>
> You're welcome to use it. It's a .pdf at downloadable here:
> http://www.chriscorrigan.com/papers/ifoamreport.pdf
>
> If you have trouble downloading it, let me know and I'll email it along.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 10/12/05, *Tree Fitzpatrick* <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suggest you take a look at the invitation for the Seattle area Practice
> of Peace as you think about an OS conference. I think we used a model that
> will eventually be used at professional/expertise conferences. I know it
> might seem like the PoP is not a business/expertise kind of event but I am
> just inviting you to think about new models for OS conferences. Just think.
>
> We invited about a dozen experts. Experts, I should say, in terms of our
> event, which was using open space in conflict areas around the world. We
> published brief bios about all of our 'experts', who we called 'invited
> guests'. Harrison Owen was one invited guests. If someone reading our
> invitation was interested in hearing more about what Harrison Owen thinks,
> they would know that HO would be one of the people circulating at our
> conference, that maybe HO would convene sessions and that there very well
> might be opportunities for butterfly conversations with Harrison. I use HO's
> name to be illustrative.
>
> Imagine you are a software executive and you have long admired Bob Guru's
> thinking for years. Yes, you might sign up to attend a conference where Bob
> Guru will be making a powerpoint presentation. But wouldn't you also be
> attracted to a three day OS where you knew Bob Guru would be hanging around
> and doing what the law of mobility was inviting him to do? He might convene
> a session the software exec could attend. . . or maybe Bob Guru would attend
> a session that software exec also attended. Or Bob Guru and software exec
> might find themselves in a small flutter of butterflies having a
> conversation that shifts software exec's thinking about his next software
> launch.
>
> Putting a bunch of amazing experts/invited guests in the same meeting
> facility as a bunch of professionals that are seeking to grow their
> professional lives should be the ideal way to hold professional/expert
> conferences.
>
> Isn't everyone tired of signing up for breakouts and sitting in a row of
> chairs and listening to a talking head drone on about a topic that the
> talking head created a year ago. . . but-the-one-year-old-topic is no longer
> what is really up for the talking head so his talk has no passion.
>
> I know I'm speaking a bit to the choir about OS on this list but I think
> the invited experts and a full-total-complete OS conference is where all the
> leading visionary conferences organizers should be headed.
>
> This note is choppy and my thoughts not well developed. I am running late
> this morning.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/12/05, *John Rapp* <john.rapp at peithene.com > wrote:
>
>
> Gail West wrote a nice summary of OST we did, on short notice, for a
> 10-country (Asia Pacific) region of the world's largest law firm, in Fall
> 2002. Gail can point you to.
>
> This sounds very exciting - good luck.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> *From:* OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> Pixley
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:55 AM
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Subject:* Conference Case Studies
>
>
>
> I need some brief case studies about using OST in a Commercial Conference
> situation.
>
>
>
> I will be talking with a conference organize next week and I want to give
> some examples where OST has been used rather than the typical talking
> head/preset speakers type of presentation format.
>
>
>
> I know HO story about the start of OST and will certainly utilize it.
> However, if you have other examples, it would be appreciated. Or, talking
> about how/why OST should be used in this type of situation.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Mark Pixley
>
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