There was something palpable in the air surrounding BIF2018. Like many summits that have come before it, our focus has always been to create more community than event. To share in our purposeful networks to catalyze a reaction and spark greatness within the audience, to go out there and bring a renewed sense of hope, belonging, and courage allowing participants to go home and spread their learnings with others.
Usually, by the time the Summit hits us in full force in September, we at BIF are too focused on ensuring everything falls into place to fully grasp the impact of the two-days we have set in motion. It is only until well after the stage lights have dimmed and the hoards of changemakers who have descended upon our great city of Providence have scattered back to their collective outposts across the U.S. that we get the chance to fully reflect.
But this year, there was an undeniable sense that something was different. More exciting. That the change we’ve been so desperately seeking for our most vital social systems might finally be breaking through to an even higher ground. It could just be that the timing couldn’t have been better, that this was exactly what we all needed as a community. Or perhaps this year, in particular, the caliber and diversity of both story and storyteller were far and above what we could have ever hoped for.
Whatever it may be, it’s safe to say that all of us have left changed. Inspired. Hopeful. Ready to self-organize and create the conditions necessary for all of us to freely combine and recombine our capabilities to make the world a better place.
And that change starts with you, our community, through words, actions, and movements, Here are some of the takeaways shared by our audience.
- Stranger in a Strange Land: An Educator’s #BIF2018 Adventure by Trevor Aleo
- Reflections: One Month Post BIF by Deb Mills-Scofield
- BIF2018: How Connection Drives Innovation from Greg Satell
- BIF2018: Connecting, Catalyzing And Colliding Communities by DK
- How Our First Instincts Can Hamper Our Capacity To Act Wisely And Innovate by Kare Anderson
- Design + Strategy = A New Good Story by Eli MacLaren
- Let’s Catalyze Something Bigger Than Ourselves by Founder & Chief Catalyst Saul Kaplan
- The Biotech Innovation That Will Transform Society Has Arrived: An Interview with Andrew Hessel
Our goal? We want to come together to strategically build a roadmap for transformation through our collective networks with you. Don’t know where to start? If you have a vision, we have an approach.
