C2 2018: Janet vous donne des nouvelles de Montréal, Canada

Quelle expérience! What an experience!
Janet is happy to share news from the amazing C2 conference in Montreal last week.
Janet: "This was by far the most high tech conference I have attended in a long time. By the same token, the organizers made sure to provide the human, low tech assistance to ensure that everyone had an incredible, worthwhile experience."

We attend many conferences and trade shows but we were all raving about C2.
"Transformative Collisions" brought together keynote speakers as varied as LGBTQ activist Chelsea Manning, rapper and agricultural entrepreneur Snoop Dogg and Oceanographer Sylvia Earle.
The backdrop is a whole event village. High tech and low tech combine to inspire, inform and entertain. We experienced incredibly creative activations, master classes, interactive workshops and a mix of art, entertainment and education I find unparalleled in the conference environment. We also very much enjoyed exploring the old town of Montreal. I learned a lot and came home energized and inspired.


My intelligent ID Badge. It worked on a platform called Klik. It connected to a website and an event app that did it all.

The C2 klik platform and smart badge unlocked key elements of the C2 experience. Thanks to the combined genius of PixMob, e180 and Connect&GO I could 

- book braindates with fellow C2 participants, 

- plan my agenda, including register for limited-capacity activities like workshops and masterclasses 

– “klik” my badge with another participant’s badge to see their contact info show up on my timeline

– magically pay with my badge.

C2 organizers were so brilliant to take low tech guests into account and to provide non-stop help in the form of real humans, They dressed their "concierges" in bright orange. They were so easy to find and they helped out with every aspect of information during the conference.

While every Big Top session started with an incredible multi-media extravaganza introduction all seminars were interactive, experiential sessions. We connected in small groups to learn while participating in game like exercises such as Wooden Blocks, Russian Doll, Hour Glass and Elastic Circle.

Sally and I had our hand print data harvested. We are part of the 1,500 imprints British artist Mat Chivers collected to train a purpose-built AI to understand how we understand our material reality.

 

The AI will participate in the robotic production of a monumental sculpture that will collide the man-made and AI-made. The first ever contemporary art sculpture created by an AI will be presented at the Musée d'Art de Joliette this October. 

 C2 was an inspiration and very worthwhile for event producers. I can't wait to bring new elements into our event production.

Merci beaucoup Ken Kristofferson, for organizing our "Team7".

I am grateful to be friends and colleagues with Ken, Sally Webb Berry, Andrea Michaels, Alison Silcoff, Greg Christy and David Merrell.

We were thrilled to meet up with Mark Wells.

Thank you for reading.

Warm regards,

Janet

Thank you to Sally Webb Berry for the great photographs.