Planning-ness 2010

September 30 – October 1

Boulder, CO and Brooklyn, NY

Thank you for being curious about the second planning “un-conference”.

At last year’s Planning-ness we didn’t just give planners, creatives and designers new perspectives, – we gave them the tools and practice they needed to get their hands dirty.

Now we’re going to do it again – bigger and better.

This year we’re holding the conference in two places so that it’s easier for everyone to travel to. Tickets will go on sale in July and we’ve already lined up some great speakers including:

John Winsor (Founder, Victor & Spoils)

Edward Boches (CCO, Mullen)

Faris Yakob (Chief Innovation officer, MDC)

Gareth Kay (Dir. of Brand Strategy, Goodby)

Scott Belsky (CEO of The Behance Network)

Len Kendall ( the3six5.com project )

Michal Migurski (Stamen Design and data visualization guru)

Russell Davies (Really Interesting Group)

Morgan Silver-Greenberg  (MD at D+C and complexity theory scientist)

Andrew Lewis (negotiation expert)

Karen McGrane (content trategy expert, Bond Art and Science)

Aki Spicer (Director of Digital Strategy, Fallon)

Ari Popper (President, Brainjuicer, USA)

Ron Pompei (retail design expert and ECD at Pompei A.D.)

Being in two locations, it would be hard to make the conferences exact replica’s of themselves. So in Boulder, where we’re being graciously hosted by Boulder Digital Works , we’ll focus on innovation – how you make change happen. In Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space we’ll continue last year’s theme of teaching people how to apply new modes of thinking to the work they do.

While we have some speakers and have ideas for more up more, our lineup is far from complete – and this is where you come in. We want to know what you want to learn about. So send us your ideas and requests for speakers and topics you would love to learn how to do

If you want to run a workshop , we’d love to hear from you but please remember a) this is about teaching a skill, not promoting your company, blog etc. b) this is about expanding the definition of how communication and design happen, not continuing how it has happened.

Thanks – and please feel free to send us your comments

Mark Lewis

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