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What is TEDx?
TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxUHowest, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxUHowest event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized."
The theme: emergent collectives
In a recent article in Internet Computing, Dr. Charles Petrie, former researcher at Stanford university, sketches a theoretical draft of the social-economic evolutions that root in the new technological possibilities of recent years. According to Dr. Petrie, the future of our businesses is in what he calls emergent collectives. These emergent collectives are spontaneously created cooperation structures between organizations, companies and individuals to the advantage of each of the participating parties in the collective. These collectives have a high degree of informality and a certain durability.
Of course, such emergent collectives have always existed. The main difference with earlier versions of these collectives is the fact that geographical proximity is no longer an issue. Due to recent technological developments, such as web 2.0 and 3.0, social media and networks, mobile computing, mass-enabling applications and cloudcomputing, the social fabric that was up till now always virtual and connected to the geographical proximity of the companies and individuals that make up the fabric, has become real. The Internet can be considered as the factual nerve system of humanity.
One could conclude that we are on the verge of a fundamental development that makes previously successful methods and practices obsolete or at least sub-optimal. The fact that our economies are rooted in medieval traditions, such as local trade and guilds, which makes our economies largely SME-economies, is for the new economic model an advantage. Regional independence and specialized craftsmanship that made our economies flourish in the Middle-Ages, was under high pressure in the industrial age. Equalization and standardization were the industrial credos. Thanks to the new communicative methods of recent years, the old ways regain their attractiveness. The advantage that became a disadvantage is an advantage once again.
How to speed up this transition to enable our largely broken economic model and enable the forces that help the emergence of those collectives that create new value by using technology, entertainment and design, is what this conference will be all about.
The program
Welcome and introduction
- 13h30: Reception with coffee
- 14h00: Welcome, introduction to the theme and opening by managing director of Howest, Lode De Geyter
What are emergent collectives?
- 14h15: Complexity and emergence by example. - Walter Dejonghe
- 14h35: Intermezzo - video or live performance
- 14h55: What are emergent collectives and why are they important now? - Jan Devos
- 15h15: Pause - Discussion over coffee and refreshments
The components of contemporary emergent collectives
- 15h40: The technology of emergent collectives for disaster relief. - Charles Petrie
- 16h00: Intermezzo - video or live performance
- 16h10: Crisis as opportunity. Next steps. - Bernard Lietaer
- 16h30: Intermezzo - video or live performance
- 16h40: Openess and security on the internet as a precondition to enable cooperation. - Jo Caudron
- 17h00: Pause - Discussion over coffee and refreshments
The examples
- 17h25: How are governments, businesses and educational institutions leveraging the new technological possibilities? - Michael Gaillez, Lies Vanhaelemeesch, Kurt Callewaert
- 17h45: Intermezzo - video or live performance
- 17h50: Open source: cooperation as a business model. - Fabien Pinckaers
Conclusion and future developments
- 18h10: Intermezzo - video or live performance
- 18h15: The future and emergent collectives: from ideas to projects - Geert Hofman
- 18h30: Closure - Local beers and refreshments
When & Where
Casinoplein 10
8500 Kortrijk
Belgium
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 from 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM (GMT+0100)
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In 1995 Howest,University College West Flanders became a single autonomous Higher Education Institution because of a merger of six prominent institutions of higher education in Flanders. Since then the development within Howest has taken on a fresh impetus and we are now one of the leading providers of higher education in the province.
Today about 5600 full-time students are enrolled at Howest pursuing 27 Bachelors and 7 Masters covering a wide range of disciplines. Howest consists of four campuses situated in Bruges and Kortrijk. Students will find here an open, vibrant, cosmopolitan and friendly environment that offers a wealth of educational opportunities, with emphasis on high quality and practice-oriented courses.
Housing accommodation, specialised libraries, individual study schemes, student counselling and study-related services at departmental level stress our student-oriented policy. Our competent teaching and administrative staff form a compact community and are always approachable. All classrooms and auditoria are well equipped to meet the present-day teaching facilities. Internet-accounts are available for all students.
Howest has a growing international reputation, as are the opportunities it offers to students to do part of their studies abroad. Its links to industry and other outside bodies are also expanding. Howest continues to attract the best available academic staff and to modify and develop its curriculum to include new areas of knowledge and to meet the changing needs of today’s student.
Howest welcomes international students and is constantly developing its course offer in English. Studying in Bruges or Kortrijk includes having a series of very attractive locations within a stone's throw: the Belgian coast as well as our Flemish art cities like Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent... You can also reach famous European places like Paris, London, Amsterdam, Cologne in a one or two hours train journey.
In short, Howest is an institution where studying is both effective and pleasant.
