Digital translation

Turning promise into practice

Rohan Gunatillake

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Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab21awake.com & Buddhist GeeksMission Models Money

@rohan_21awakerohan.gunatillake@gmail.com

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Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab

Public sector and institutional cultures

Act 1 Reframing the festival city

Act 1 Reframing the festival city

Act 2 Generation Wise

Act 1 Reframing the festival city

Act 3 Skunkworks & supertankers

Act 2 Generation Wise

Act 1 | Reframing the world’s festival city

Edinburgh as the world’s festival city

Twelve festivals working together

Innovation is messy by design

Assets (naming & making more of them)

Rules (and breaking them)

Open innovation & the arts

It’s not just about the projects

Projects

Projects

Processes

Projects

Processes

Networks

Projects

Processes

Networks

People

Projects

Processes

Networks

People

Learning

supporting ourselves & others | open data

audience++| short-term social networks

what’s right? | digital content

Let’s not just copy… let’s *really* copy

www.festivalslab.com | @festivalslab

Act 2 | Generation Wise

An accident of history

First behaviour, then technology

Behaviour is a safer long-term bet

Social

Open

Real-time

Distributed

Human-sized

Playful

Act 2 | Skunkworks and supertankers

Newton’s law of organisational inertia

Activation barrier

Activation barrier

Get excited and make things

Activation barrier

You need a really good reason

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Give innovation a chance

three ways of setting up

Inside

Outside

Inside-outside

Innovate In Peace

Sicamp do not disturb

Engineering agility

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Digital innovation is a contact sport

rohan.gunatillake@gmail.com

twitter.com/rohan_21awake

I’m easily found

Thank you

Photo credits: @aleksiaaltonen, @monicasdad, Festivals Edinburgh, 37signals, gapingvoid, Jessica Hagy, @gadl, @uberculture, @limaoscarjuliet, Clay Shirky, Business Model Generation, Google, Matt Jones, @crsan and of course flickr, Creative Commons, the British Council and anyone else I might have forgetten to name. I love your work.