{"id":4120,"date":"2011-08-14T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2011-08-14T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:07:43","slug":"reinventing-conferences-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4120","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing Conferences, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1664704\/the-creator-of-ted-aims-to-reinvent-conferences-once-again\">Warren Berger:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Is it time for a new twist on the TED model? The esteemed Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference, soon to be pushing 30, has become a juggernaut&#8211;what with sellout events, the viral success of online TED Talks, and the spin-off of smaller TED-X conferences. But the conference\u2019s original founder, Richard Saul Wurman, is working on a new creation that radically overhauls the formula used by TED&#8211;much as TED itself reinvented the standard business conference model when Wurman launched it in 1984.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWurman, who is no longer affiliated with TED (he sold most of the rights to Chris Anderson\u2019s Sapling Foundation back in 2002 and broke off his remaining ties with the spin-off TEDMED Conference earlier this year), recently announced plans for his new WWW.WWW conference, slated to debut in Fall of 2012. So far, he has lined up some heavyweight collaborators\u2014R\/GA\u2019s Bob Greenberg and @radical.media\u2019s Jon Kamen are on board, GE is an early sponsor, and Yo-Yo Ma and Herbie Hancock will see to the music. Featured guests are still to be determined, though Wurman promises that the conference will be \u201clike a dinner party with a hundred of the world\u2019s greatest minds having a conversation, two at a time.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut here are a few things the show won\u2019t have: Speeches, slide shows, or tickets. Wurman\u2019s plan is to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated to the outside world via a high-quality, for-sale app that captures the event. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Berger: Is it time for a new twist on the TED model? The esteemed Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference, soon to be pushing 30, has become a juggernaut&#8211;what with sellout events, the viral success of online TED Talks, and the spin-off of smaller TED-X conferences. But the conference\u2019s original founder, Richard Saul Wurman, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,32,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}