eg2007 Conference Discount Offered to BIF Community
If you attended BIF-3, you might recall Richard Saul Wurman talking about the eg 2007 conference. EG stands for "Entertainment Gathering" and has been called a celebration of creative enterprise, and a great swirl of inspirations. This year's event is designed and directed by Michael Hawley (a renowned technologist, educator and pianist). Michael has graciously extended a discount ticket offer of 25% to members of the BIF community. The conference takes place on December 2-4, 2007 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Our own Saul Kaplan attended last year's event and called it an incredible 3-day dinner party.
Michael Hawley describes it this way:
Some of your friends might like to think of EG as a bit like TED was when TED was young --- intimate, bubbly and unpretentious. Many of the speakers will be familiar (Nicholas Negroponte giving an update on his "one laptop per child" progress; Marvin Minsky musing on emotions and machines). Others will be household names you never expected to meet (Tim Kring, the mastermind behind NBC's HEROES; Jonathan Winters, one of the great comedic geniuses of the 20th century; Floyd Landis, the controversial Tour de France winner). And others I'd put in the "someday you'll say 'I'll never forget it: I met him at EG when he was 28'..." category: rising stars with a bright future. The presenter and attendee list includes Oscars, MacArthurs, Emmys, Pulitzers, etc, etc. Roughly 60 presenters, 3 days, a splendid campus, and absolutely fantastic food. It's really a refreshing, extraordinary group. And the audience seems to be just as celebrated. Last year, when Richard Wurman ran it, I showed up intending to talk, but instead, played duets with Yo-Yo Ma (we played Chopin). And now I'm running the conference. So you see, EG does change lives.
To receive the 25% discount, friends of BIF simply need contact the event's registrar, Jane Rosch (jane@the-eg.com).
And if you do decide to go, let us know. BIF chief catalyst Saul Kaplan will be attending again this year.
Posted November 5, 2007 10:39 AM by Chris Flanagan | Permalink
