Chris -- Sounds like they are already in Open Space, so they might as well do it intentionally. As for other examples -- I suppose you could say that every time Open Space is used for a collection of professionals gathered for a common purpose that would be an example. If so the number is probably in the 1000's.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (summer) website www.openspaceworld.com ----- Original Message ----- From: chris macrae To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:17 AM Subject: new for old conferences connecting all professions worth sustaining Has there ever been an open space type of a conference gathering where people of a profession can meet people of all professions who have come to believe that professionals should be better at connecting knowhow than separating their own business case? If so where was it? How large did it get? Is it still annually convening? Here's a different version of this query that has started doing the rounds. The background in Europe being after 5 years of two organizations -commercial conference producer and European Union large virtual community - enabling an annual free to participate congress of 1000+ people paid for exhibitors and the opportunity to join pay for expert sessions, this year the conference producer says it will cost about 1000 dollars to join the main event and the virtual community says it will host a fringe networking event for about 75 dollars a head, and nobody yet knows if these will be organized in the same place and week, though initial promises had been they would (Amsterdam November) From: Bala Pillai] Sent: 26 July 2005 01:04 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: 'sangkancil'; [email protected] Subject: Evolution of KM Events & The Dinosauring of Under-adaptive Academics/Specialists? Dear all, What's your imminent view on how adaptiveness-rich, or lack thereof, corporate-nexus KM conferences are, as compared to (a) what emerging epistemology expectations are and (b) what these events could be? If you were such an events strategist how would you facilitate your blend of priorities? Here's fodder for thought:- "(Upcoming Amsterdam KM Event) Nobody yet knows what will happen. Will the combined event still attract people numbering in their thousands and if so will the Fringe be the majority? If so will this be the largest non-academic event where people come to network around a discipline and themes chosen by those who come (as opposed to a conference producer or speakers)?" Chris Macrae Chris Macrae [email protected] http://economicstimes.blogspot.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
