What?
Borrowing from the concepts around BarCamps and other unconferences, Trampoline is an informal day of sharing ideas in Melbourne, Australia. The first occurance happened on the 28th of March, 2009, and returned by popular demand on October 24th, 2009.
Future Trampoline events are planned — probably sometime in March, 2010 — but we don’t have any details figured out just yet. If you’d like to hear when something a bit more concrete is locked in, either join the mailing list, or .
The goal is to cover subjects that will be appealing across different disciplines. Technical or business-focused, environmental or social, new or old, complex or simple—as long as the ideas are interesting and you find them amazing, they’ll fit right in.
Trampoline is a self-organising event for those who find the world interesting, have something to offer and share, and have an inquisitive mind. All attendees are expected to come along with participation in mind—the discussions (sessions is a bit too formal, lectures even more so) are suggested and scheduled at the start of the day.
Some examples from the first event:
- Pieter Peach bounced around some ideas on the future of health
- Caroline Tunnell-Jones explained the finer points of wine tasting
- Dan Walmsley demonstrated the parallels between improvisational comedy and entrepreneurship
- Emily Freeman led a discussion about the future of business information with regards to mass collaboration, free information and the semantic web
- Sam Sabey pondered energy efficiency and a distributed community energy future
- Keith De La Rue discussed how complexity and chaos can be dealt with using the Cynefin model.
The Full Day’s Proceedings
Why?
Because we love inspiring, absorbing conversations, and we love big concepts that make us think differently about the world. We think you might too.
The scrum in the Loft as we finalised the afternoon’s sessions.
Who?
This event is being put together by Melina Chan, Steve Hopkins and Pat Allan, with some valued assistance from Bei Yin. But we don’t control the content of Trampoline—that is always up to the people who come along!
Announcements Mailing List
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Subscribe to our Discussion Group
If you would like to continue discussions from previous Trampolines, or start some in preparation for the next, join our discussion google group.