The Friday Five: Best Session Titles from Yesterday's Innovation Unconference

Great titles and fun reading on a Friday morning. Sorry I missed this great UNconference #masstlc

Did we find a good problem for the flying car to solve???

Scott,
Great seeing you as a panel whirlwind in the halls of MassTLC's Innovation UnConference. Next year, we present "PR Improv" together :).

In the meantime, your readers will love the closing session on "Intention and Innovation" from Bill Warner, trustee of MassTLC. Warner charted the bio cloud - our brains - as the only way to launch an idea that helps people and provide a chance of success (and fun).

Here's link to my audio posted on Utterli: http://bit.ly/UnWarner. You'll hear Bill's time with Avid and WildFire, as well as great ideas and statements of intent from the audience too.

Enjoy (more stuff at www.utterli.com/AdamZand tagged #masstlc, UnConference)

My favorite session of the day was when Globe columnist Scott Kirsner teamed up with Tim Rowe, CEO at Cambridge Innovation Center & Venture Partner at New Atlantic Ventures, to run a well attended discussion on “Turbo Charging the New Culture of Entrepeneurship in MA”.

Visit a blog summary of the discussions: http://tinyurl.com/ydn7ug6

Sorry all,
My previous link is a photo Bill Warner and his flip chart graphing the Intentions/beliefs/innovation/audience premise.

The audio for Bill's session is at: http://bit.ly/MassTLCWarner

Additionally, here's the PR Improv panel I led with Mass High Tech's Doug Banks; Judith Hurwitz; Patrick Rafter; Bobbie Carlton:
Part 1: http://bit.ly/PRImprov
Part 2: http://bit.ly/PRImprov2

You'll hear us working with entrepreneurs on their business idea, honing messages, targeting media reps and actually doing a media and anlayst pitch to Doug & Judith

UNconference takes everything "broken" about conferences and fixes it! Next year add a "So You Built It & They Aren't Coming, Now What?" panel for the realities of Tesla level ideas.

So much happening at the same time. Sorry to miss the "Turbo Charging the New Economy of Entrepreneurship in MA" session. Happy to see that Dana Harris posted a link to a blog summary of the discussion, and that the comments are starting to fill up with other links to content from other sessions (as if we were in more than one place at a time).

The Mass Tech Leadership Council Innovation 2009 unConference was even better than the one last year. I concur that "Turbo Charging the New Culture of Entrepeneurship in MA” was outstanding. It was a nice change to recognize all the good things going on in the New England entrepreneurial community and identify pragmatic ways to improve.

Scott,

You and Tim ran an awesome session at the unConference...definitely the talk of the community. I look forward to seeing what actions may come of the solutions proposed at the event.

You also might be interested in this...I compiled all of the content generated (media, audio, pics, blogs, links) into one place: http://jasonevanish.com/2009/10/04/masstlc-unconference-build-on-momentum/

Best,

Jason

"Firing Founders is VC-101: How to Keep Your Founder Job" session provided valuable insight on why founders “flounder” and what they can do to succeed.

Here’s the Top 10 Lessons on How to Keep Your Founder Job gleamed from the session: http://hiddentargets.com/2009/10/06/top-10-lessons-on-how-to-keep-your-founder-job/

Agreed, great conference. I missed most of the catchy named ones listed, but got a lot out of it. Sorry I missed Bill Warner's starting your idea on no money. Scott, as enumerated above, the panel you co-hosted on "turbo-charging" entrepreneurship was definitely one of the highlights. I think the mood of the crowd quickly switched from "there's not enough going on around here" to a realization (shock and awe?) of how much great stuff was going on, and that we needed better connections between them. Would be interested in hearing some brave masochist attempting to go to every possible event for the course of a month.