This is a talk I gave to the whole arts team globally at the British Council as part of their two day workshop in Berlin, March 2011

1. Digital translation Turning promise into practice Rohan Gunatillake

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6. hello. what do you do? arts innovation digital meditation festivals business models buddhism strategy design production writing Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab 21awake.com & Buddhist Geeks Mission Models Money @rohan_21awake rohan.gunatillake@gmail.com

7. missionmodelsmoney.org.uk

8. Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab

9. Public sector and institutional cultures

11. Act 1 Reframing the festival city

12. Act 1 Reframing the festival city Act 2 Generation Wise

13. Act 1 Reframing the festival city Act 2 Generation Wise Act 3 Skunkworks & supertankers

15. Act 1 | Reframing the world’s festival city

16. Edinburgh as the world’s festival city

17. Twelve festivals working together

19. Innovation is messy by design

20. Assets (naming & making more of them)

21. Rules (and breaking them)

22. Open innovation & the arts

23. It’s not just about the projects

24. Projects

25. Projects Processes

26. Projects Processes Networks

27. Projects Processes Networks People

28. Projects Processes Networks People Learning

29. supporting ourselves & others | open data

30. audience++| short-term social networks

31. what’s right? | digital content

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

33. www.festivalslab.com | @festivalslab

34. Act 2 | Generation Wise

35. An accident of history

39. First behaviour, then technology

40. Behaviour is a safer long-term bet

41. Social Open Real-time Distributed Human-sized Playful

42. Act 2 | Skunkworks and supertankers

43. Newton’s law of organisational inertia Activation barrier

45. Activation barrier

47. Get excited and make things Activation barrier

48. You need a really good reason

49. Rainforest pictre Give innovation a chance

50. three ways of setting up

51. Inside

52. Outside

53. Inside-outside

54. Innovate In Peace Sicamp do not disturb

55. Engineering agility

57. <insert conversation here>

58. Digital innovation is a contact sport I’m easily found rohan.gunatillake@gmail.com twitter.com/rohan_21awake 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.