Event Series: Dropping the first name – May 27, Richard Gatarski

As mentioned in the first post and in the about page, this blog is an ongoing companion to to the offline events related to the themes covered by this blog. A tag cloud to grasp some key terms will be presented, so there it will be reflected in a snapshot.

From talk and words, to action: It is time to introduce the first keynote speaker – Richard Gatarski.

Quote from his About from his Weconverse blog;

“Dr. Richard Gatarski (born in 1958) pursues his mission “to help us discover, understand and develop social and technological movements”. Closest to his heart lies an idea to help designing the best start in life for our children – where “school” is not the solution.

As a speaker Dr. Richard Gatarski is experimenting with new, inspiring, and mutliple threaded forms of presentations – by some referred to as digital storytelling. The results are thought-provoking illustrations of contemporary life. Richard brings togheter seemingly unrelated subjects, such as meaningfulness, schooling, business and computerization, into an emotionally touching sphere of thoughts. He achieves this by providing insightful demonstrations together with critical reflections. The audience meets issues such as social media, kids as consumers, school branding, a post PC world with artificial market actors and customer conversations in Web 2.0 worlds. Richard’s aim is to offer the audience both subtle and mind blowing insights, sometimes in a provocative fashion, that stimulate exciting conversations.”

[read the full bio over at his blog]

His interactive workshop this time will cover e. g. social media, web 2.0, what it means for me, you and us, and challenges for the contemporary marketing communicator in the networked age. The final title for his exciting contribution will be presented in the full program at the separate and dedicated page here on the event blog, when all speakers have been introduced through separate postings the coming days. You can also trace the emerging speaker presentation page in the event flow.