2015 DIF ROUNDUP · Robin Chase Co-founder, Zipcar Michael Braungart Founder & Scientific Director, EPEA. Co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle Design Philosophy Professor George Lakoff

2015DIF ROUNDUP

CURATED BY THE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION THINKDIF.CO

The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is an online, open access event that explores the question: The economy is changing — what do I need to know, experience and do? We invite thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, designers, makers and learners to join us over the three weeks of the Festival and participate in a huge range of live and interactive sessions.

With a new learning model, the DIF enables participation from wherever you are with hundreds of sessions and activities streamed live to your device - all you need is an internet connection

What is the Disruptive Innovation Festival?

DiscoverNew stories and insights from innovators around the world

NetworkOpportunities to share innovative thinking and engage your peers and colleagues through the crowdsourced Open Mic Stage

LearnOnline sessions and resources to improve your knowledge of specific emerging trends like biomimicry, the sharing economy and machine learning

Hear from some of the world’s brightest startups and innovators about the

latest disruptive innovations that are shaking up the

industry and providing new inspiration for business, research and teaching

“On a personal level I’ve learnt a lot and it’s made me think differently about life and business. I’m really keen to explore how I might play a part in the circular

economy and to find out more about it.”

“DIF is the education

agent for the new economy

model.”

“[The DIF is] like a rich Scandinavian Christmas lunch (Julefrokost); choose and pick

until all your senses are satisfied.”

“The DIF is education as it should be: freely

accessible, relevant, cutting edge, stimulating, thought

provoking and fun.”

What you said about the DIF

Quotes sourced from the DIF 2015

feedback form. Thanks to all who

submitted their comments.

“I think the DIF format is the future of

conferencing.”

Hunter Lovins President of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS)

Alison Vincent Chief Technology Officer, Cisco

Robin Chase Co-founder, Zipcar

Michael Braungart Founder & Scientific Director, EPEA. Co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle Design Philosophy

Professor George Lakoff University of California at Berkeley

Michelle Unger The voice of Watson

Leontino Balbo Junior Expert in Regenerative Agriculture Systems

Jeremy Howard Founder and CEO, Enlitic and faculty of Singularity University

Rand Hindi Founder and CEO, Snips

Michel Bauwens Founder and Director, P2P Foundation

Neal Gorenflo Co-founder, Shareable

April Rinne Expert on the Sharing Economy and Shareable Cities

Ida Auken MP and Member of the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on the Circular Economy

Jyrki Katainen Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness

Tim Brown - CEO, IDEO

THE DIF HEADLINERS Thought leadership inspiring a generation to rethink

Think Like a Designer • Will Europe Seize the Circular Economy Opportunity? • The Sharing Economy Redefined • Deep Learning Machines • Is this the Future of Global Food Systems? • Deep Learning: How will it change our lives? • Natural Capitalism • The Internet of Everything – Connecting the Un-connected • The Values Behind a Circular Economy • Cradle to Cradle Design

SUBJECTS INCLUDE:Enabling technology • Sharing economy • Food & farming • Systems thinking • Artificial intelligence • Circular economy

DIF LANGUAGES - ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, PORTUGESE, RUSSIAN AND SPANISH

The DIF is a truly international experience. The 2015 Festival saw simultaneous round-tables in Canada, Belgium and France, workshops in Sao Paulo,

presentations in Lisbon, and events in Russia. This approach seeks to encourage the discovery and sharing of new concepts and catalyse disruptive thinking from

different parts of the globe.

PARTICIPATION FROM 181 COUNTRIES, 272 SESSIONS, 500 SPEAKERS, 6 LANGUAGESThe Disruptive Innovation Festival is a platform for crowdsourced contributions from all over the world. From face-to-face discussion panels to online workshops, the DIF connects people from different sectors and backgrounds around a diverse range of topics relating to the changing economy.

Open Source Movement

and Why You Should Join it - Kyle Wiens,

CEO, iFixit (CA)

Do Emerging Economies = Emerging

Opportunities? - and further insights

were gained on developments in

Brazil

Designing a Business Fibre

by Fibre - Carmen Hijosa, Founder and CEO, Ananas Anam UK Ltd

Don’t Listen to Your

Users - Gillian Morris, CEO,

Hitlist

Urban Photosynthesis, - Dr Jan Wurm,

Associate Director, Arup

Disruption in the

Developing World

The Future of Global Food Production

Insects to Feed the World -

Dr Jenny Josephs, CEO

of The Bug Shack

Glass in the Circular Economy:

a Network ‘Tear Down’ Workshop

- University of Technology,

Sydney,

We Are All Manufacturers

Now - Bram de Zwart, Co-Founder, 3D

Hubs

Las Monedas Sociales in

Espana

Циклическая экономика

как контекст инноваций в 21

веке

No Place for Rust Belts in the Circular

Economy

What the Informal Waste Ecosystem in

India Could Mean for the Circular

Economy...

A Global Perspective: What does the Circular Economy Offer to ‘Advanced Economies’?

Thailand’s Influential

Champion of Ecological Design - A Conversation

With Dr. Singh Intrachooto

HEADLINERSThe must-see thinkers and thought-leaders

streamed live.

FESTIVAL LABSTake part in a live,

simultaneous Teardown Lab at participating FabLabs and makespaces globally.

OPEN MIC SESSIONSOnline as well as

physical events and contributions from

people like you all over the world. Register to

get involved.

ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION STAGE

Ellen MacArthur Foundation curated

content around the latest big picture themes, trends

and opportunities to watch.

BIG TOP TENTSUniversity or institution-

led online learning programmes.

DIF 2015 in numbers: 272 sessions, featuring 500+ speakers • 20,188 registered attendees • 34,947 total session views • 85,233 website visitors in 3 weeks, from 181 countries

Quotes sourced from the DIF 2015 feedback form. Thanks to all who submitted their comments.

CONTRIBUTORS’FEEDBACK

Social media reach during live & catchup phase: 7,013,753 post

reach on Facebook • 3,330 #thinkdif mentions with 9.7 million

potential impressions • 590,000 @thinkdif impressions

“A megaphonefor innovators

and disrupters.”

“I was very impressed with the quality of the questions. Really thoughtful. And the

production values were terrific too.

Great job to the team!”

“DIF is dif-ferent, and that’s fantastic.A great platform to test out, learn and interact

with new ideas and concepts.”

“DIF gives the chance to regional

organisations to share their

experiencesinternationally.”

“DIF is a global snowball effect for innovation.”

What’s online at thinkdif.co?

BIG TOP TENTS

COLLABORATORS

GLOBAL PARTNERS OF THE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

DIF 2015 Partners

TECHNOLOGY PARTNER MEDIA PARTNER

THE DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION FESTIVAL IS CURATED BY THE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

THANK YOU

for the huge amount of very positive and useful feedback.We are already working on new and exciting ideas for DIF 2016.

Next year’s Festival will be bigger and better.

If you have ideas about how we can improve the Festival, would like to find out about partnerships or contributions, or just want to say hi, please get in touch at [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming you and

your contributions to DIF 2016.

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In the months leading up to DIF 2016, look out for DIF Sparks — a series of events, articles and videos inspired by the themes of the Disruptive Innovation Festival.

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