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About the program

In a complex and messy world, solutions to big challenges frequently follow unobvious paths to success. At PopTech 2010, we’ll convene a network of visionary thinkers, leaders and doers in science, technology, design, the corporate and social sectors, entrepreneurship, education and the arts for a three-day, boundary-defying conversation about the nature of creative change.

Here are just a few of the many ideas we’ll be exploring:

• The Power of Failure: In areas as widespread as education, business and government, what has to die so that the right things might live?

• Innovation Mashups: What do radically different disciplines – and ways of thinking – have to teach each other?

• The Psychogeography of Ideas: How does ‘cultural software’ – from our media to the built environment – shape our thinking?

• The Exponent Effect: Why do some ideas only work at a grand scale, and others only locally?

• Complex Interventions: How do we decide where to intervene in a complex system? How do we intervene in multiple places simutaneously?

• The Power of Simplicity: How do we get to what’s essential?

• Strange Loops: How do we deal with feedback loops and unintended consequences created by our efforts?

• Architectures of Choice: How can small changes to our ‘default’ options lead to breakthroughs?

• The Heretic’s Path: Every visionary starts as a heretic. How do ideas – and their champions – move from the edge to the center?

The conversation will be eclectic and wideranging. As always, woven throughout the experience will be demonstrations of jaw-dropping new technologies, breathtaking musical performances and one-of-a-kind surprises.

We invite you to learn more and request a registration today!