Edinburgh++ | tales from festivalslab

Rohan Gunatillake

@rohan_21awake

who gave me the mic?

identity & the social graph

glasgow-folk | techtourism | sxswuk | arts | innovation-cities | festivals |

cwc2011-fans | bgeeks11 | changemakers | suchness |

glasvegas | socent | dharmish | speirslocks | mentalhealthish | buddhists | culturaltweeters |

social-innovators | the-meta-hive

hello. what do you do?

arts innovation digital meditationfestivals business models buddhismstrategy design production writing

Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab21awake.com & Buddhist GeeksMission Models Money

@rohan_21awakerohan.gunatillake@gmail.com

not what I’m talking about today

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Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab | festivalslab

Act 1 Festivals as entrepreneur

Act 1 Festivals as entrepreneur Act 2 The 4 things on my mind

WARNING| this talk may include information

Act 1 | Festival as entrepreneur

Edinburgh as the world’s festival city

Twelve festivals working together

Innovation is messy by design

Assets (naming & making more of them)

Rules (and breaking them)

Open innovation, service design & the arts

It’s not just about the projects

Projects

Projects

Processes

Projects

Processes

Networks

Projects

Processes

Networks

People

Projects

Processes

Networks

People

Learning

supporting ourselves & others | open data

audience++| short-term social networks

Edinburgh as test space

yes we’ve heard of NT Live | digital content

www.festivalslab.com | @festivalslab

Act 2 | The four things on my mind

#1- Let’s not just copy… let’s *really* copy

#2 – Serendipity needs to be engineered

#3 - You may not have the right skills (yet)

#4 – Innovation is not a one-night stand

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I’m easily found

rohan.gunatillake@gmail.com

twitter.com/rohan_21awake

festivalslab.com

Thank you

Photo credits: @aleksiaaltonen, @monicasdad, Festivals Edinburgh, 37signals, Jessica Hagy, @gadl, @uberculture, @limaoscarjuliet, @pictfactory, @tallkev, @bobdoran, @osde8info; Business Model Generation, Google, Matt Jones, @crsan and of course flickr and Creative Commons. I love your work. And apologies to anyone else I might have forgotten to name. It wasn’t intentional.