The Community Hub

For everyone. Think of it as the meeting point at the campground, where you find your friends, review the line up and take a break. It’s a space for check-ins, reflection, random encounters, open office hours and unexpected things to happen.

Explore the community hub

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A guided reflective walk
A guided walking reflective exercise
Facilitated by: 
Rose Mosse
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Anytime!
Coming Soon
Festival Opening: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
What happens if we bring an Indigenous perspective to the big picture - to history, education, money, power?
Facilitated by: 
Tyson Yunkaporta
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Monday
 
Jun 1
6:30 pm
(AEST)
Coming Soon
The art of the short read: what can we learn from the past?
A festival bookclub - read some (short!) pieces and join us for a chat in week 3
Facilitated by: 
The Policy Community Partnership Office
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 and 
Wednesday
 
Jun 17
10:30 am
(GMT -4) Ottawa
Coming Soon
The Final Summit: Festival wrap up
A final session to close the festival. What will happen? We do not know.
Facilitated by: 
States of Change & friends
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 and 
Friday
 
Jun 19
12:00 pm
(GMT +1) London
Coming Soon

Where are we going?

For the dreamers, the visionaries, and the radicals. What are we creating for our new future? What shifts need to happen to bring this future into alignment with our values? What’s possible? What are you imagining?

Explore 'where are we going?' events

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A guided reflective walk
A guided walking reflective exercise
Facilitated by: 
Rose Mosse
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 and 
 
Anytime!
Coming Soon
The cold hard truths of privilege
When we signed up to change the world, we didn’t realise we would have to change ourselves.
Facilitated by: 
Aarathi Krishnan
 and 
Panthea Lee
 and 
Friday
 
Jun 19
11:00 am
(GMT -4) New York
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How governments think, and could think better
Are we in the midst of a revolution in government cognition and if so what does this mean for roles, skills and methods?
Facilitated by: 
Geoff Mulgan
 and 
Aaron Maniam
 and 
Sam Hannah-Rankin
Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT +1) London
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Designing collaborations for urgent, courageous change
We need to work across all actors in a system if we're going to achieve the change we need.
Facilitated by: 
Panthea Lee
 and 
Alyssa Kropp
 and 
Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT -4) New York
Coming Soon
“100 ways” - Gameplay about the future of anything P1
A multi-stage game that takes you 10 years into the future.
Facilitated by: 
The Policy Community Partnership Office
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Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT -4) Ottawa
Coming Soon
Culture change: public imagination vs. bureaucratic creativity
What is the role of culture and cultural activity in decision-making?
Facilitated by: 
Gabriella Gomez-Mont
 and 
Charles Landry
 and 
Panthea Lee
Saturday
 
Jun 20
2:00 pm
(GMT +2) CPH
Coming Soon

What needs to be in place?

For the builders and the planners. Let’s start to bring form to those dreams of what the future looks like. What do we need to make it real? What do future organisations and ways of working look like? What needs to change to build the future we want?

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Crisis vision: how the pandemic helps us see invisible gaps
What gaps in policies does a crisis reveal?
Facilitated by: 
Observatory of Public Innovation
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Alex Roberts
 and 
Kent Aitken
Wednesday
 
Jun 17
8:00 am
(GMT +2) Paris
Coming Soon
Leadership in the Public Sector: What’s Wanting to Emerge
What insights are emerging in leadership practices?
Facilitated by: 
Abe Greenspoon
 and 
Jennifer MacLeod
 and 
Friday
 
Jun 19
12:00 pm
(GMT -4) Ottawa
Coming Soon
How Singapore Learns
A candid reflective conversation with a collection of Singaporean futurists and educators
Facilitated by: 
Aaron Maniam
 and 
Jeanette Kwek
 and 
Cheryl Chung
Friday
 
Jun 19
4:15 pm
(GMT +8) Singapore
Coming Soon
Mission Oriented Innovation - making it happen (FULL)
Today’s challenges cannot be resolved by one organization or sector alone.
Facilitated by: 
Rowan Conway
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Saturday
 
Jun 20
10:00 am
(GMT +1) London
Coming Soon
Facilitating sense-making
How can we practically implement sense-making in our organisations? 
Facilitated by: 
Abe Greenspoon
 and 
Emily Bazalgette
 and 
Gemma Drake
Saturday
 
Jun 20
10:00 am
(GMT -4) Ottawa
Coming Soon
The Life Cycles of Public Innovation Labs
This exploration comes out of research with over 40 innovation teams
Facilitated by: 
011 Lab
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GNova
 and 
Saturday
 
Jun 20
11:00 am
(GMT -3) Sao Paulo
Coming Soon
Governance Innovation in a crisis - the Victorian Experience
How did the State Government of Victoria respond to the crisis?
Facilitated by: 
Chris Eccles
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Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT +10)
Coming Soon
Innovation Ecosystems for Transformation
Portfolio approaches to innovation - in action.
Facilitated by: 
Mikael Seppälä
 and 
Iina Oilinki
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Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT +3) Helsinki
Coming Soon
The future of innovation learning (FULL)
This session explores what the “next practice” of innovation learning might look like.
Facilitated by: 
Beth Noveck
 and 
Kelly Duggan
 and 
Caroline Paulick-Thiel
Saturday
 
Jun 20
2:00 pm
(GMT +2) CPH
Coming Soon
Policy entrepreneurship: exploring the future role of government officials
A panel looking at the future role of change makers.
Facilitated by: 
Millie Begovic
 and 
Tom Kalil
 and 
Chad Hartnell
Saturday
 
Jun 20
5:00 pm
(GMT +2) Copenhagen
Coming Soon
The Creative Bureaucracy: What, why, how
The Creative Bureaucracy – what is it, and what does it look like?
Facilitated by: 
Charles Landry
 and 
Margie Caust
 and 
Jesper Christiansen
Sunday
 
Jun 21
12:00 pm
(GMT +1) London
Coming Soon

How do we get to the 'what next'

For the doers and the makers. The get-shit-done-nowers. There’s lots of potential in the ‘what next’, but how do we do it well? What do we need to learn or adopt? What good practice & next practice can we learn from?

Explore 'how do we get to the 'what next' events

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A guided reflective walk
A guided walking reflective exercise
Facilitated by: 
Rose Mosse
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 and 
 
Anytime!
Coming Soon
How do we steward organisational loss and support organisations to close?
How can we do organisational endings well? Responsibly, intelligently and with compassion.
Facilitated by: 
Cassie Robinson
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Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 am
(GMT +1) London
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From little things, big things grow: mechanisms and mindsets for making change stick
Are you excited by all the energy and potential of the ‘what next’, and now asking “yes, but how?”
Facilitated by: 
Thea Snow
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 and 
Saturday
 
Jun 20
9:00 am
(GMT +10) Melb
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We will we will nudge you
Will you be the nudger or the nudged?
Facilitated by: 
OL Jonatan Beun
 and 
Flora Finamor Pfeifer
 and 
Saturday
 
Jun 20
10:00 am
(GMT -3) Buenos Aires
Coming Soon
Systemic We-Construction: Exnovation as a Key to a Common Future
Exnovation is the necessary counterbalance to innovation. A workshop.
Facilitated by: 
Sabine Junginger
 and 
Caroline Paulick-Thiel
 and 
Saturday
 
Jun 20
12:00 pm
(GMT +2) Berlin
Coming Soon
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