<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>This note is choppy and my thoughts not well developed. I am running late this morning.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Rapp</b> <<a href="mailto:john.rapp@peithene.com">john.rapp@peithene.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">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.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">This sounds very exciting - good luck.</font></span></div>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I need some brief case studies about using OST in a Commercial Conference situation. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks, </span></font></p>
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