How have strategic value creation networks become vital to technology development and economic growth?

Co-creation relies on the relationship infrastructure of people, organizations and policies. Though complex and intangible, these assets can be observed through network analysis of small, medium and large enterprises.

Visual insights toward a shared vision can be created by mapping the relationships through which talent, information and financial resources flow.

These relationship patterns reveal competitive forces, gatekeepers and collaboration opportunities – within and across sectors – in internal and external innovation ecosystems around the world.

Join Dr. Martha G. Russell, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford University, for an interactive SVII dinner to explore new and unpublished visualizations of the global mobile industry. >>Dr. Russell’s Full Bio

Location Click for Map

Bay Cafe Restaurant (at the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA

Schedule

6:00 – Doors Open (Networking)
6:45 – Dinner Starts
7:00 – SVII Business
7:15 – Program Starts
9:00 – Wrap-Up (Networking till close at 9:30)

For more information and updates, please visit the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute web site.

Thank you for sharing news about this event with a friend or colleague!

Recaps of past Silicon Valley Innovation Institute events are archived here, with video clips and photos. Come check them out!

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012-2013 Program!

As we work on planning content for our upcoming monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

Follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for upcoming events and program information. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute.

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Please note: Although we’ve been posting advance announcements about Silicon Valley Innovation Institute programs for the past few years, we originally started doing so because at that time, SVII did not publish its own blog, and the organization was just beginning to use social networks to further its community discussions. Now, however, SVII has its own blog and a strong social presence, so we may change our approach to publishing the organization’s program announcements here on this blog.

We are also currently testing an exciting new innovation process for our own company, Creative Sage™, so you may see some of this reflected in content changes on our web site and blogs in the coming year. Stay tuned…we’ll announce any significant editorial or policy changes well in advance.

We greatly appreciate the support of our readers in the Creative Sage™ Community. Your questions, comments and suggestions are always welcome!

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Is the internet destroying the current leadership models? How is innovation affecting politics? And what effect do politics have on innovation?

Do anti-innovation bills like SOPA make your blood boil? The disconnect between the innovation community and policy makers is a serious issue. Most would agree that our livelihoods depend on a healthy, dynamic and innovative economy. What opportunities are there for the innovation community to inform the political process?

Join host Seth Resler, Internet radio host and founder of The Polylogue, and a diverse panel of innovators and activists for an interactive dialog about the current state of innovation in American politics.

From the Republican Presidential Primary to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, we’ll explore game changing insights being applied to elections, government, political protest and investigate their impact on innovation in the US.

Panelists:

Dr. Nicole Velasco – Currently an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Research Methods at Lee University, Velasco is a Stanford trained Political Economist who specializes in public finance; Velasco’s research focuses on democratization and its relationship with interest group politics and power dynamics in legislative bodies.

Dr. Thomas J. Buckholtz – Volunteered in national, regional, and local roles of a successful Presidential campaign. Served in the subsequent administration of President George H.W. Bush, and later made a suggestion that led to perhaps the first US nationwide grassroots movement catalyzed by a political party’s National Committee. He brings perspective from innovations in business, government, technology, marketplace business practices, natural-resources conservation, and societal development.

Josh Abend – Trained as an architect, turned industrial designer and corporate innovation pioneer. A colleague of the original CEF, Creative Education Foundation. He has been a VP of product design for 5 divisions of a Fortune 500 company and also headed SRI’s Innovation Management Center. His current focus is on establishing professional requirements for the CIA “Corporate Innovation Architect” or Officer via his INNOVATION MASTERS® LLC program.

Peter Allen – Has worked as a Political organizer and communications strategist from the trenches of the 2008 Democratic Primary to heated battles for the City Council and County Board of Supervisors. He has spent the past few years developing a rich understanding of online social media tools and how they can be used to empower and mobilize people on behalf of a candidate, a cause, or a brand.

[Image above by Wes]

Location:

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Bay Cafe Restaurant (at the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA

Schedule:
6:00 – Doors Open (Networking)

6:45 – Dinner Starts
7:00 – SVII Business
7:15 – Program Starts
9:00 – Wrap-Up (Networking until close at 9:30)

For more updates, please visit the new SVII web site.

Register with Eventbrite

Thank you for sharing news about this event with a friend or colleague!

Recaps of past Silicon Valley Innovation Institute events are archived here, with video clips and photos. Come check them out!

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012-2013 Program!

As we work on planning content for our upcoming monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for links to archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute.

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Part of our company’s 30th Anniversary Year Series. (You can start by reading Part 1 here.)

In the video clip above, Paul Sloane, Editor of the recently published book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts — with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough — describes the book in this video clip on YouTube, and tells you why you or your organization would find value in it.

I’m honored to be a contributing author to this book, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (a Twitter Innovation chat and web site). I co-wrote the chapter, “Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing,” with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book is available on Google Books. Here are some reviews of the book.

I was very happy to note that A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts had made the Best Seller List in the category of “Change Management” in Business Books at Amazon.UK on January 30th, 2012. On that day, I noted that the book had placed in the top 20, but it can go up and down on a daily (or even hourly) basis, so you may find it at a different number, or even in a different business category, when this blog post is published—ah, such is the life cycle of a business book.

On behalf of all the other authors, and the editor, Paul Sloane, I am very grateful to all of you who have purchased or reviewed the book. You may also be interested in two other business books to which I had previously contributed, which are mentioned in previous posts on this blog. In the notable Age of Conversation trilogy, edited by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton, I was one of the contributing authors to Age of Conversation 2: Why Don’t They Get It? (published in 2008); and Age of Conversation 3: It’s Time to Get Busy! (published in 2010). You can read excerpt from my chapters for Age of Conversation 2, entitled: “Creativity Comes from Conversation—What’s Innovation Got to Do with It?” here, and an excerpt of my chapter from Age of Conversation 3, entitled: “Shake Up and Stir” here. You’ll note that in both of these books, I wrote about social media and the conversational Web in terms of innovation and hiring people who are the best qualified to work in open, innovative, collaborative and conversational environments.

I may write more about creating a culture for open innovation and crowd sourcing on this blog soon, as I did in my chapter of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts (2011), along with my chapter co-authors, Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski. That is, in fact, the direction in which more of my consulting, coaching and training work is moving—helping organizations make difficult, but essential transitions, so that they can innovate, collaborate, and become more conversant using social media both within, and to reach beyond, their own walls and boundaries.

What would you like to know about Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing? What would you like to read about here, related to those topics?

Your questions and comments are always welcome (below)! You may also want to check out the linked PR, Social Media and Marketing Mentor blog, as I’ll be writing more about these timely topics there, too. Your collaboration as a reader or commenter is much appreciated!

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The City of Palo Alto, California is currently considering options for how to manage its organic waste stream. An anaerobic digester is being proposed to replace the current incinerator.

The methane producing bacteria living inside anaerobic digesters do break down a lot organic material, but not cellulose (the compound that makes up the cell walls of plants) Yet cellulose is the ideal feedstock for making biochar via pyrolysis. The integration of biochar production with AD facilities holds the promise of producing a rich, dark, carbon sequestering soil amendment, full of nutrients from the digestate and structurally enhanced by the highly porous biochar.

John Miedema is an internationally recognized expert on biochar systems. As founder of the Pacific Northwest Biochar Initiative (PNW Biochar), John has been taking a leadership role in biochar advocacy and research. He is the Director of Biomass Energy for Thompson Timber and Starker Forests in Corvallis, Oregon where he operates an integrated pyrolysis and gasification facility that produces biochar.

Howard Sprouse is an expert in the remediation industry. He has served as a
consultant to Battelle’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, assisting with their efforts at developing mycoremediation technology, (the use of fungi to clean a variety of organic contaminants.)

He is the founder of The Remediators Incorporated, an environmental service company specializing mycoremediation and other biological remediation systems.

John and Howard are a founding members of the Oregon Biochar Corp, whose focus is integrating biochar production into biogas plants and composting systems.

Join us for this dinner program and explore how high-tech compost has become!

Register here with mogotix or here via Eventbrite

Location

Bay Cafe Ballroom (by the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA

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Schedule:
6:00 – Doors Open (Networking)
6:45 – Dinner Starts
7:00 – SVII Business
7:15 – Program Starts
9:00 – Wrap-Up (Networking till close at 9:30)

For more updates, please visit the new SVII web site.

Thank you for sharing news about this event with a friend or colleague!

Recaps of past Silicon Valley Innovation Institute events are archived here, with video clips and photos. Come check them out!

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for links to archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute.

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While U.S. legislators are busy arguing about whether or not the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has the Constitutional right to regulate air pollution, a massive ecological design experiment is underway across the Pacific. For China, the world’s most highly populated country and heavily industrialized economy, the stakes are high to develop and implement an integrated sustainability framework for their cities.

Dr. James Caldwell, guest speaker for this event, has spent the past year consulting to the sustainability planners of the city of Nansha, China, on exactly this topic. At this SVII dinner, he’ll share the story of working with the urban planners of Nansha to develop a Green Specification System for the city.

Dr. Caldwell will compare Nansha with several other eco-city developments in China where he has worked with planners and reveal the insights gained from co-organizing and co-hosting a Chinese Mayoral Delegation that came to the Bay Area to compare Eco-City development efforts here with their own in China.

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you are visiting, come join us at this SVII dinner event and expand your innovation world view!

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This event is a collaboration between Sustainovation and Silicon Valley Innovation Institute (SVII).

Program Date and Time:

Wednesday, January 4, 2012, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. (PST)

Schedule:

6:00 PM (PST) – Doors Open (Networking)
6:45 PM – Dinner is Served
7:15 PM – Program Begins
9:00 PM – Wrap-up

Location:

Bay Cafe, Palo Alto Golf Course
1875 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California 94303

For directions, please visit the SVII web site.

Thank you for sharing this event with a friend!

Recaps of past Silicon Valley Innovation Institute events are archived here, with video clips and photos. Come check them out!

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates, archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

In the future, please also visit the SVII web site for event information and updates.

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Come on out for the our end of the year party! We’ve invited CAST Labs to join us. CAST stands for Connecting Art, Science, and Technology. CAST Labs’ mission is to stimulate cross-pollination between artists, scientists and entrepreneurs, to spark creativity and innovation. CAST parties combine lively entertainment with stimulating debates, resulting in a festive evening of cheer, mingling and enriching conversations.

Join Us for Our First CAST Party!

Date: December 7, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM in Palo Alto. To buy tickets and get directions to the party, please visit the SVII web site.

For your entertainment, the program will feature live jazz, opera arias, a tango dance performance, and a dinner-debate. The theme of the evening is: art, creativity and innovation, a collaborative exploration. A multi-talented cast of accomplished left-and-right-brainers will help guide our conversation. Panelists include:

• Sylvie Leotin – CAST Labs founder and moderator, ballerina, computer scientist, blogger and entrepreneur.
• Michael Killen – Artist, filmmaker, and serial entrepreneur, driving awareness and change for sustainability through art and TV programs.
• Howard Lieberman – SVII founder, DARPA senior science & technology advisor, serial entrepreneur, composer and jazz musician.
• Indre Viskontas – Singer and neuroscientist, specializing in contemporary opera and the intersection between memory and creativity.

We look forward to your participation!

This event is a collaboration with CAST Labs and SVII (Silicon Valley Innovation Institute). Illustration by @RueMic.

Thank you for sharing this event with a friend.

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates, archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

Please note: We apologize for not posting this announcement sooner, due to a technical problem with our web site this week. In the future, please also visit the SVII web site for event information and updates.

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Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s 2011-2012 Series of innovation programs on various topics. If you’re located elsewhere, you can follow live tweeting from @SVIISociety on Twitter (usually with the hashtags #SVII or #SVIISociety ). Video clips or photos of most programs are now archived on the SVII web site. (By the way, our apologies for a late announcement post here—the SVII program was changed and updated in the past few days.).

We’ve all heard of “thinking outside the box”—but after all the contemplation in the world, you must still move past the threshold to actually create something that can be shared. It is time to jump out of the box, and just go do it.

Hector Marquez II, the director and producer of Dark Truths, will share his experience of jumping out of the box and creating the world’s first feature length 3D film designed specifically for mobile devices. Dark Truths is as much an urban crime thriller as it is a whole new way of creating and distributing movies using grassroots techniques and pioneering 3D camera technology. See CBS coverage.

Join us this Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. PT (or see schedule options below).

Location:

The Bay Cafe (at the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, California

Schedule :

6:00 p.m. PT — Doors Open (Networking)
6:45 — Dinner
7:15 — Program Begins
9:00 — Wrap-up

Pre-Registration:

$35 – Dinner + Program (6:00 p.m. PDT doors open, 6:45 p.m. dinner starts)
$20 – Program Only (7:15 p.m. PDT admission)

You can register here or pay at the door. You save on the cost by pre-registering.

Come participate in an interactive program with the guest speaker—and bring your own questions to ask or discuss with other participants. There are always great networking opportunities with key innovation leaders and consultants from Silicon Valley and the entire Bay Area.

Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings — PhonePhysics:

There are finally several ways to get high quality audio signals in and out of iOS devices (for instance, via Apogee, Alesis and Sonoma Wireworks peripherals.) Performers can now integrate these multipurpose devices into their performances without apology for sound quality.

The cost of music apps running on an iOS device is at least an order of magnitude less than the equivalent hardware purchases (10x bang for your buck!).

For those of us in Silicon Valley, there’s the unique opportunity to be part of the iterative feedback loop between musicians and developers as the core of musicians’ innovation ecosystem.

Mobile Musicians SIG (Special Interest Group)

Stay tuned for the date, usually the 3rd or 4th Tuesday of each month—visit the SVII web site for updates.

FREE pizza will be provided!

Location (unless otherwise indicated):

Serena Software
1900 Seaport Blvd, 2nd Floor
Redwood City, California

For updated information and registration, please visit the SVII blog.

The smartphone is a shining example of the rapid technological advancement that continues to expand the possibilities of how we interact and experience life. Yet at the same time, our social systems are not keeping pace. Our education system operates largely in the same way as it did 20 years ago, before anyone was walking around with 1 Ghz mobile laboratories in their pockets.

PhonePhysics is an initiative to unleash human potential by leveraging mobile technology to provide joyful innovation experiences early on, which stimulate creativity and reward the natural tendency toward innovation. The goal is to develop a software discovery environment that uses real time music to teach science and how to program cell phones.

Join an inspired group of edutainment pioneers as we work toward our goal to unleash human potential early on and build innovation resilience.

If you’re not located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but want to keep up with what’s happening at the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, the SVII programs are now being archived online at: http://svii.net/category/events/event-recaps — the new web site offers features that were not available before to both members and non-members, and you can subscribe to the SVII monthly e-letter and participate in forums there, as well as on social networks (see below for links).

The new series, Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings, is an innovative, evolving format intended to maximize the participation of those who attend by giving them the opportunity to “brief” each other about program related insights and information.

Ongoing Education Initiative:

The SVII Education Initiative began at the July 7th, 2010 Silicon Valley Innovation Institute event, which featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed at the July 2010 meeting, and afterward.

The SVII Education Initiative is off to a great start, and you can still join the effort and contribute your ideas! Members have used Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.

Building on the insights gathered, SVII members hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email friends@svii.org to be added to the list.

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates, archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

Back to the blog front page…

Return to the Creative Sage Home Page

Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s 2011-2012 Series of innovation programs on various topics. If you’re located elsewhere, you can follow live tweeting from @SVIISociety on Twitter (usually with the hashtag #SVII ). Video clips or photos of most programs are now archived on the new SVII blog site.

At the October 5, 2011 SVII dinner meeting, we’ll focus on the creation of a Green Community Center in North Fair Oaks, CA. Activist architect Morton Frank will present a social venture to manufacture green certified, prefabricated housing units, onsite, in the community, and for the community. The aim to demonstrate a scalable model of neighborhood improvement through energy efficiency.

Elements of this multifaceted vision include: creating livable and eco-friendly low income housing, green jobs training, energy efficiency, renewable energy generation, community communications infrastructure, and bridging socioeconomic divides in Silicon Valley.

Three SVII members will act as “lenses” to guide a group dialogue:

David Allen Foster — Multifarious Designer and Parallel Entrepreneur

Gary Shamshonian — Corporate Green Building Champion

Bill Veltrop — Architect of Generative Change

Come join us in person, or via Twitter, as we explore the prospects for an actual brick-and-mortar regional metamorphosis project!

Green Housing + Community Center Dinner
The Bay Cafe (by the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, California

Schedule :
6:00 p.m. PDT — Doors Open (Networking)
6:45 — Dinner is Served
7:15 — Program Begins
9:00 — Wrap-up

Pre-Registration:

$35 – Dinner + Program (6:00 p.m. PDT doors open, 6:45 p.m. dinner starts)
$20 – Program Only (7:15 p.m. PDT admission)

Come participate in an interactive program with the guest speakers—and bring your own questions to ask them or discuss with other participants. There are always great networking opportunities with key innovation leaders and consultants from Silicon Valley and the entire Bay Area. For more information, visit the new, extended SVII blog site.

If you’re unable to attend the meeting, you can also participate by following the live tweeting from @SVIISociety on Twitter, using the hashtag #SVII. Video clips of most programs are now archived on the new SVII blog site.

Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings — PhonePhysics:

There are finally several ways to get high quality audio signals in and out of iOS devices (for instance, via Apogee, Alesis and Sonoma Wireworks peripherals.) Performers can now integrate these multipurpose devices into their performances without apology for sound quality.

The cost of music apps running on an iOS device is at least an order of magnitude less than the equivalent hardware purchases (10x bang for your buck!).

For those of us in Silicon Valley, there’s the unique opportunity to be part of the iterative feedback loop between musicians and developers as the core of musicians’ innovation ecosystem.

Mobile Musicians SIG (Special Interest Group)
Tuesday, 10/25/11, 4:00-7:00 p.m. (PDT) — FREE pizza provided!

Location:
Serena Software
1900 Seaport Blvd, 2nd Floor
Redwood City, California

For updated information and registration, please visit the SVII blog.

The smartphone is a shining example of the rapid technological advancement that continues to expand the possibilities of how we interact and experience life. Yet at the same time, our social systems are not keeping pace. Our education system operates largely in the same way as it did 20 years ago, before anyone was walking around with 1 Ghz mobile laboratories in their pockets.

PhonePhysics is an initiative to unleash human potential by leveraging mobile technology to provide joyful innovation experiences early on, which stimulate creativity and reward the natural tendency toward innovation. The goal is to develop a software discovery environment that uses real time music to teach science and how to program cell phones.

Join an inspired group of edutainment pioneers as we work toward our goal to unleash human potential early on and build innovation resilience.

If you’re not located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but want to keep up with what’s happening at the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, the SVII programs are now being archived online at: http://svii.net/category/events/event-recaps — the new web site offers features that were not available before to both members and non-members, and you can subscribe to the SVII monthly e-letter and participate in forums there, as well as on social networks (see below for links).

The new series, Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings, is an innovative, evolving format intended to maximize the participation of those who attend by giving them the opportunity to “brief” each other about program related insights and information.

Ongoing Education Initiative:

The SVII Education Initiative began at the July 7th, 2010 Silicon Valley Innovation Institute event, which featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed at the July 2010 meeting, and afterward.

The SVII Education Initiative is off to a great start, and you can still join the effort and contribute your ideas! Members have used Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.

Building on the insights gathered, SVII members hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email friends@svii.org to be added to the list.

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates, archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

Back to the blog front page…

Return to the Creative Sage Home Page

Turning Vision into Value

If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s 2011-2012 Series of innovation programs on various topics. If you’re located elsewhere, you can follow live tweeting from @SVIISociety on Twitter (usually with the hashtag #SVII ). Video clips or photos of most programs are now archived on the new SVII blog site.

Join us for The Importance of Storytelling in Business Innovation: SVII Dinner Program on Wednesday evening, September 7, 2011:

Storytelling is a core competency of innovators and innovation advocates—what better way to transmit insight and provide context?

Using storytelling in business innovation and marketing can also help us connect with prospective clients and other constituents emotionally, as well as on a practical level. Many studies have indicated that empathy and emotional connection are more powerful than pure logic in capturing the support of prospects and communicating brand value.

In a recent Twitter #innochat (innovation chat), other benefits of storytelling in business innovation were discussed—you can read the topic framing post and tweet stream from that discussion here.

A convergence of trends is now creating tremendous new opportunities for the art of storytelling.

The Stage — The entire world is several orders of magnitude more connected connected than only 5 years ago. The rapid growth of social networks, mobile devices and cloud computing isn’t slowing down anytime soon. The barriers to doing business internationally, particularly for communications-centric ventures, are drastically lower than ever before.

The Play — Stories take on many forms, i.e., writing, music, film, drama, fashion or game design. These are the plays on this new digital stage.

What are the storytelling opportunities for global ventures and digital studios right now?

How can small businesses, in particular, leverage global networks?

What are the kinds of stories that businesses should master?

These and other questions will be discussed by the program presenters, and among audience participants at the September 7th Silicon Valley Innovation Institute event.

Program Presenters:

Sheridan Tatsuno is a worldly man fluent in four languages. A longtime Silicon Valley market researcher, business strategist, and visionary thinker, he has touched the lives of many with his involvement with things like the “Intel Inside” campaign and AMD’s sub $1000 PC. He is also a screenwriter with several of his writings on Japan that have been subsequently produced into documentaries. Today, he champions the arts with two Silicon Valley initiatives via Facebook:

Silicon Valley Global Network – focuses on global entrepreneurship and collaboration (the IT and business platforms, or “the stage”).

RENAISSANCE: SF – promotes transmedia storytelling in Silicon Valley (the “plays”).

Suzanne Connolly is the co-founder RENAISSANCE SF. She will also be participating in this dinner program. As a writer, editor, filmmaker, advisor to startups, and political advocate for technology and telecommunications, she has a passion for the convergence of storytelling and the democratization of technology.

We are pleased to have Sheridan Tatsuno and Suzanne Connolly share their vision that the current social media IT platform boom (mostly run by engineers and programmers) will soon lead to an explosion in Web/mobile storytelling (led by liberal arts and humanities grads). The left brain will finally connect with the right brain! — the only way the U.S. can compete against left-brained China and India that offer much cheaper labor in the hundreds of millions.

So once again, be sure to wear your regional metamorphosis hats and to bring a story to share with your fellow diners.

The Importance of Storytelling in Business and Innovation
@ the Bay Cafe (by the Palo Alto Golf Course)
1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA

Come participate in an interactive program with the guest speakers—and bring your own questions to ask them or discuss with other participants. There are always great networking opportunities with key innovation leaders and consultants from Silicon Valley and the entire Bay Area.

If you’re unable to attend the meeting, you can also participate by following the live tweeting from @SVIISociety on Twitter, using the hashtag #SVII. Video clips of most programs are now archived on the new SVII blog site.

Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings — PhonePhysics:

This week, SVII will host two interactive briefings: Mobile Musicians SIG, and Phonetasia, a focus on the creation of music on mobile devices.

There are finally several ways to get high quality audio signals in and out of iOS devices (via Apogee, Alesis and Sonoma Wireworks peripherals.) Performers can now integrate these multipurpose devices into their performances without apology for sound quality.

The cost of music apps running on an iOS device is at least an order of magnitude less than the equivalent hardware purchases. (10x bang for your buck!)

For those of us in Silicon Valley, there’s the unique opportunity to be part of the iterative feedback loop between musicians and developers as the core of musicians innovation ecosystem.

Join us next Tuesday to explore the evolution of tomorrow’s musical tools that some of us are building on the most current platforms. Consider to bring your favorite instrument and / or mobile device for experimentation. FREE PIZZA will be available!

Time and Location:

Mobile Musicians SIG
Tuesday, 8/30/11
4:00-7:00 p.m. (PDT)
Serena Software
1900 Seaport Blvd, 2nd Floor
Redwood City, California

For updated information, please visit the SVII blog.

The participants from our August 16th Interactive Briefing will present the fruits of their labor in hacking together a feature set, UI, and storyboard to lay the foundations for a minimum viable demo for Phonetasia. We are making arrangements to serve dinner.

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What is Phonetasia?

A smartphone “app” could foster innovation resilience in children of all ages. We intend to develop a handheld discovery environment that provides the experience of “being a musician” in the same sense that we want our students to experience “being a scientist” or “being a mathematician” rather than merely reciting the “facts” of science or mathematics.

Users will compose and perform tunes by creating and manipulating musical phrases – the true building blocks of musical expression – rather than manipulating individual notes or traditional sequences (such as in, say, GarageBand). We will unleash pent up expressivity through the universal language of music — even for beginners who may not yet have cleared the double hurdles of musical notation and instrumental technique. We hope to strengthen the self-confidence and courage needed to innovate and “break the mold” in spite of our society (and especially our education system) — negativity, criticism and even humiliation for any who dare to think different.

Time and Location:

Thursday, Sept 1st
6:30-8:30 p.m. (PDT)
702 Marshall, Suite 510
Redwood City, California

For updated information, a map and directions, please visit the SVII blog.

The smartphone is a shining example of the rapid technological advancement that continues to expand the possibilities of how we interact and experience life. Yet at the same time, our social systems are not keeping pace. Our education system operates largely in the same way as it did 20 years ago, before anyone was walking around with 1 Ghz mobile laboratories in their pockets.

PhonePhysics is an initiative to unleash human potential by leveraging mobile technology to provide joyful innovation experiences early on, which stimulate creativity and reward the natural tendency toward innovation. The goal is to develop a software discovery environment that uses real time music to teach science and how to program cell phones.

Join an inspired group of edutainment pioneers as we work toward our goal to unleash human potential early on and build innovation resilience.

If you’re not located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but want to keep up with what’s happening at the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, the SVII programs are now being archived online at: http://svii.net/category/events/event-recaps — the new web site offers features that were not available before to both members and non-members, and you can subscribe to the SVII monthly e-letter and participate in forums there, as well as on social networks (see below for links).

The new series, Silicon Valley Interactive Briefings, is an innovative, evolving format intended to maximize the participation of those who attend by giving them the opportunity to “brief” each other about program related insights and information.

Ongoing Education Initiative:

The SVII Education Initiative began at the July 7th, 2010 Silicon Valley Innovation Institute event, which featured an excellent, in-depth panel discussion on technology and innovation barriers in K-12 education. Our expert panelists discussed some of the barriers that prevent modern classrooms from utilizing the vast technological resources currently available, and what we might do to reduce those barriers. Based on the exciting and challenging dialog that resulted, SVII has started work on an Education Initiative that will tackle some of the problems discussed at the July 2010 meeting, and afterward.

The SVII Education Initiative is off to a great start, and you can still join the effort and contribute your ideas! Members have used Ken Ketch’s Group Mind Express tool to create a collaborative space to work on this initiative. If you attended the session and had further insights to add, head over to the SVII Collaboration Center and make your voice heard. We will be adding more tools to that space as the initiative develops, so stay tuned.

Building on the insights gathered, SVII members hope to make a concrete, positive contribution to the world of education in the Silicon Valley. If you’d like to receive all updates about the education initiative, please email friends@svii.org to be added to the list.

Help Us Shape SVII’s 2012 Program!

As we work on planning content for our 2012 monthly meetings, we would love to hear your input! If you have thoughts about speakers, topics, format, or anything else related to meeting content, email us at friends@svii.org.

Connect with the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Community…

You can now follow SVII on Twitter @SVIISociety

Join the new SVII Facebook group and the LinkedIn group.

You can also use Eventbrite to register.

Stay in Touch…

For more information, and to join the e-list, email friends@svii.org. Plan to join the SVII Innovation Society each “first Wednesday” of the month.

Keep checking here for program updates, archives and summaries of past meetings. Even if you’re not based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can receive SVII e-letters and keep up with past program discussions.

SVII is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization.

Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, is a member of SVII.

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