We are delighted to announce The Agile Elephant Unconference on digital transformation, social business, the future of work and the digital workplace – an all day event on 27 November 2014, hosted at Metro Bank’s London HQ, One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA – opposite Holborn Tube Station.
The Agile Elephant team, hosted at a Central London location, are facilitating a self-organised conference designed to bring together specialists, consultants, practitioners and change agents to discuss:
- digital transformation
- social business
- next generation enterprise
- the future of work
- how to do more, and do it better
The Agile Elephant Unconference will be a full day from 9:00 to 17:30 at a Central London location close to the Underground and other transport links. The Unconference follows, and is connected to, the Enterprise 2.0 Summit London on November 25 and 26 at The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace. The Summit is a practical, “how-to” style of event for a corporate audience. The Unconference is aimed at specialists, consultants and change agents advising those companies who want to share ideas, best practice, and debate where the world of work, the digital landscape and emerging technologies are moving next.
The mantra for the day – what works, what doesn’t, what’s next?
Go here to sign up for the Unconference. The ingredients are:
- A curated unconference using Open Space Technology
- As a group – the Morning and Afternoon will each start with 5 x 5 – five 5 minute lightning sessions to get your brain cells moving – the clock is ticking, when the time is up the speaker may have to finish mid-sentence – no exceptions!
- We’ll split the room in to 3 unconference streams with timeslots across the day
- 4 time slots per unconference stream – a choice of 12 topics discussed in depth during the day
- Bringing it all together – as a group we’ll come back together at the end to discuss what we learned, how we capture the content and make some plans for what next?
- Plenty of time for networking in and around the sessions in coffee and lunch breaks – the agenda framework for the day is here
- Elephant volunteers will help facilitate the day and make things run smoothly
We’ll use social media to capture and share our energy and ideas from the day.
If you want to sign up to present one of the ten 5×5 sessions, go to this post and add your session title and explanation in the comments. If we have more than 10 volunteers we’ll convene a panel of judges to pick the best 10. For the 12 unconference sessions, we hope delegates bring along some great ideas and material to share and discuss.
We’d like to give a big thank you to our partner providing the venue, but that will have to wait a few days for a formal announcement. We’d also like to thank our sponsor Sei Mani for the lunch, coffee, tea and soft drinks – their support is helping us make the Unconference free for attendees.
About Metro Bank
Metro Bank are an ideal partner for our Unconference as they are, themselves, a case study in new business models, with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach – they are revolutionising banking by putting customers first. They are Britain’s first new high street bank in over 100 years. Metro Bank aims to provide personal and business customers with unparalleled levels of service and convenience. They’re a unique, customer-focused, retail business reinventing the rules of retail banking by killing all stupid bank rules. You can follow them on Twitter, download this to find out more about their approach, or go to: metrobankonline.co.uk
About Sei Mani
Sei Mani help organisations understand how investments in collaboration technologies can transform business performance. As well guiding companies on the journey from developing a business case and assessing impact on culture and leadership through to the creation of compelling value propositions, their services include: Visual design, information architecture, usability, accessability, application integration, agile software, web and mobile design and development. Find out more: www.sei-mani.com
About Agile Elephant
The new digital and social approach to business can add real value to the bottom line. Agile Elephant is a new kind of consultancy designed to help companies embrace the new digital culture of social collaboration, sharing and openness that is changing business models and the world of work. Contact us to find out more.
About the Unconference
The conference will be free for attendees, but space is going to be limited to only 60 delegates. To find out more or sign up for a conference pass, go to these pages on the Agile Elephant website, go to the Eventbrite page, or contact us.