Solving Bigger Problems With the 2gether08 Festival

Coming up this July 2-3 in London is a new event called 2gether08 that is being organized summer-festival style, combining the best of conference, with a bit of Festival fun mixed in. Check out what’s happening here:

2gether08 is brought to you by the innovative UK broadcaster Channel 4.

***Early Bird Discount Passes Available Now***

You’ve got until this Monday, 16^th June, to get an early bird discount for passes.

Register here: http://www.2gether08.eventbrite.com/

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Solve Bigger Problems at 2gether08

On offer are two days and nights of talks, workshops, debates, interviews, parties, awards and some surprises. More than 300 people from throughout London’s creative industries are planning to attend and the speaker line-up includes politicians, writers, a philosopher, economists, entrepreneurs, technologists, scientists and more to soon be announced. See the who’s who list of speakers here http://2gether08.com/programme/

Among attendants you’ll find many of London’s top influential creatives from new technology, business, media, art and entertainment, all gathering to hammer out new ideas, along with a few positive action steps that can be taken to make the world a better place. I’m hoping that this is going to be similar to what happens, when ideas get started, and spreading at TED talks.

2gether08 is a Grassroots, DIY, Co-Created, People-Powered Festival of Ideas

Most inspiring is how 2gether08 is being organized, with the active participation of those attending. Invitations and calls for ideas went out among London’s creative entrepreneurial community to begin shaping the agenda for what 2gether08 will tackle, and topic discussions will cover every subject from climate change to international relations to community issues. At the heart of the concept is a focus surrounding how new technology can propel social change, and it is social networking that has been shaping out 2gether08 across London.

I can report that the organizers are listening, with about 100 workshops being organized for attendants, by attendants.

My agency Hai Media Group is proud to be among the supporters of 2gether08.

We are helping out the organizers with PR support, if you have queries about press passes, please contact me. Download the 2gether08 Event Alert here:

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**If you have a blog, or Twitter, or know someone who does, please post news about this event, and help get the ideas going.

Please mark your calendar for 2gether08! and I hope to see you there.

I’ll be blogging about what ideas emerge from 2gether08, and if you have any pressing topics that you’d like to see guest’s put their heads together on, I’m interested to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment about what is happening in your part of the world that needs attention. You are welcome to contact me here, or email me at info [at] haimediagroup [dot] com