Seminars by Michel Bauwens
Proposed Seminar: How to survive and thrive in a P2P World
Seminar Content
Peer to peer, the bottom-up participation of citizens in social innovation, is rapidly changing the social environment in which organizations and companies have to operate.
This seminar offers an overview of peer to peer trends and how it impacts society, organizations, and the individual, looking in particular at its business impact and at innovative practices in this field.
Seminar Methodology
Presentations are alternated with small group sessions. Peer to peer facilitation will be used for the sharing of collective insights of the audience itself.
Seminar Aims
1) to provide insight into P2P trends as they impact on technological infrastructure, the ability for bottom-up creation of social innovation, and its expressions and implications. Attendees will become familiar with the trends and concepts used in this emergent new field.
2) To understand the main ways in which business and organizations have adapted to the new realities
3) Have a basic familiarity of the tools used to keep updated with such developments
4) Learn from their peers how they have reacted to the challenge in their area of activity
5) Starting an initial personal inquiry into how it affects their own context
Seminar Formulas
One day, half a day, 90 minute lecture with discussion.
Seminar Fees
EUR 1,500 per day, EUR 750 half-day seminars, EUR 250 for shorter lectures. Travel expenses must be included, as well as the hotel expenses before and after the conference. The organizers are asked to handle these logistics.
Infrastructure requirements: PC with ADSL connection and multimedia capabilities for PPT presentation; eventually an assistant facilitator for the workshop sessions.
The Speaker
Michel Bauwens was one of the internet pioneers in his home country of Belgium, where he created two startups respectively involved in intranet/extranet and interactive marketing. He was also the eBusiness Strategy Director for the country’s leading telecommunications company Belgacom as well as European Director of Thought Leadership for the worldwide webconsultancy USWeb/CKS-MarchFIRST. Prior to his involment in the internet he was information analyst, and knowledge manager for BP. Along the way, he has taught post-graduate MBA courses, been editor in chief of a magazine, and co-produced a 3-hour TV documentary (TechnoCalyps), and co-edited to French-language volumes on the anthropology of digital society.
In 2003, he moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, which is surrounded by 60% of the world population in a 1,500 miles radius, and started the Foundation for P2P Alternatives to research, document and promote such practices as peer production and peer governance. He is part of the handful of experts worldwide to study P2P processes, but uniquely combines it with a wide-ranging experience in the business world.