Another Friday, another all-day event.
FTR FST (“future fest”), sponsored by 4th Sector Innovations, SwoopIn, and several other organizations, will be held on Friday, November 12 in downtown Ontario, California. While I’m primarily going for the “professional development” part, FTR FST also features creative expression (including food trucks, which appropriately fall into the “creative expression” category), collaboration, and a tech showcase.
The professional development schedule includes the following sessions, among others:
- A keynote presentation from Colin Mangham entitled “Days of Future Past.” According to FTR FST, the topic will be biomimicry.
Biomimicry is the practice of learning from and emulating life’s genius to create more efficient, elegant, and sustainable designs. It’s a problem-solving method, a sustainability ethos, an innovation approach, a change movement, and a new way of viewing and valuing nature. In practice it’s dedicated to reconnecting people with nature, and aligning human systems with biological systems.
As such, our aim is to connect a spectrum of innovation where human and biological system designs interact together seamlessly. Our team offers education and consulting to apply biological insights to systematic sustainability challenges. Our collaborative partnerships and services support interdisciplinary dialogue across industry sectors and regions, while reconnecting all of us to the local ecosystem that supports us.
OK, at this point some of you are saying to yourselves, “THAT kind of conference.”
But frankly, there’s just as much value in approaching problems from a futuristic sustainability view as there is in approaching problems from a more traditional program management process (or Shipley process, or whatever), or even from a more old school sustainability view as espoused by Broguiere’s and the late Huell Howser.
See, it all ties together. After all, the new school 4th Sector Innovations is less than a mile from the decidedly old school Graber Olive House (featured in one of Howser’s “Louie, take a look at this!” TV shows.)
I seem to have strayed from my original topic…
Anyway, let’s refocus and return to some of the other professional development sessions at this Friday’s FTR FST.
- The workshop “Navigating Cashflow” by Gilbert Wenseslao, Chase Bank.
- The workshop “Accessing Grants for Growth” by Pershetta Slack, The Funded Intensive. (NOW they hold this workshop. One of the previous presenters at the Ontario IDEA Exchange just finished submitting a grant application, and probably could have used this session.)
- The workshop “Next Gen Cyber Security” by Erik Delgadillo, SecLex.
- The workshop “The Evolution of Mobility” by Maritza Berger at Piaggio Fast Forward.
- A panel (participants unidentified) on equalizing opportunity.
- Vendor spotlights.
After 3:00 pm, FTR FST transitions to less intensive sessions. Bring the kids! The complete schedule can be found here.
You can register for FTR FST here. Oh, and one new wrinkle: attendance at the professional development sessions is now FREE, thanks to the event sponsors.
FTR FST will be at 4th Sector Innovations, 404 N Euclid Avenue in Ontario.
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