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Chris Messina: Open Web: Identity is the Platform
Auditorium
6:45pm to 8:15pm, Tuesday October 20, 2009
Part of the Unfinished Lecture Series
As the Web becomes more social, do the same rules apply? Social platforms like Facebook and Twitter have received a lot of press as potential “game changers.” They are inching the web away from a document-centric model – where the primary activities are searching and information retrieval from vast databases – to one that is more engaging and people-centric. Chris will discuss the trends and technologies driving this shift, and the potential of the people-centric model for companies, products and individuals.
Admission is free but registration is required.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He runs Citizen Agency and co-founded San Francsco-based Citizen Space which kicked off the co-working movement. He co-organized the first BarCamp in 2005 and was named one of the Digital Utopians and People who Populate Web 2.0 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris received the 2008 Google Open Source Award in recognition for his work advancing technology initiatives such as Firefox and microformats.
ABOUT THE UNFINISHED LECTURE SERIES
The Unfinished Lecture is a monthly event hosted by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD and sponsored by Torch Partnership. Part of the Unfinished Business initiative, the lectures are intended to generate an open conversation about strategic innovation in the business and design of commercial enterprises and public organizations.
PRESENTED BY Torch Partnership & sLab
Torch Partnership
At Torch we think differently about the purpose and value of design. By treating business problems as problems of design we are able to develop a richer point of view on the problem itself. This creates a deeper understanding of the dynamics, and leads to a diversity of unique insights to the problem, its causes and its effects. Our greatest ambition as designers is to improve the businesses we serve. We focus our attention on creating alignment between your organization's strategy and it's design for creating value: from structure to processes, communications and core capabilities.
Strategic Innovation Lab
Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) is a centre for research in design, strategic foresight and innovation at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). sLab integrates academic investigation, professional engagement, education and skills development for private, public, and not-for-profit stakeholders. sLab is a growing community of researchers and practitioners, design and business professionals, teachers and students, who are passionate about envisioning possible futures.
Auditorium
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, Ontario
Free