Fresh back from Cannes, RedesignMe is off to Romania to join Vodafone’s Webstock Web 2.0 Conference. This conference full of keynotes and workshops on the development of Web 2.0 and the value for budiness. Meanwhile you can enjoy our new main page design and the introduction of our themes: Dutch Design Week and Sports & Technology.
Tuesday I’ll be joining a pannel discussion about collaborative innovation in Cannes, France. What can be a better environment to talk about innovation then wine, croissants, camembert and a jet-set boulevard? Pictures and report soon.
P2: Collaborative Innovation: Good for Business?
Panel Chair: Stephen Wolak (Vodafone, UK)
Panelists: Thierry Bonhomme, CEO, Orange Labs, France
Laurent Gouzènes, Group VP, STMicroelectronics, France
Stewart Fallis, BT, UK
Maxim Schram, RedesignMe
Date: Tuesday 16th September 2008
Time: 14.00-15.30
Room: AUDITORIUM I
Abstract: Open Innovation and Collaborative Innovation have attracted a lot of
coverage in recent years, particularly with the publication of Don
Tapscott’s book “Wikinomics”. What does collaborative innovation mean
for large corporations? Is collaborative innovation good for traditional
businesses? How can corporations collaborate and differentiate? Come
along to the panel and hear leading experts in this field discuss these
issues.
RedesignMe will be giving a lecture during Marketing day at the University of Maastricht on October 8. Here’s the program:
8:45 - 9:20 Reception
9:25 - 9:30 Opening by the President of the MMD: Chris Tossings
9:30 - 10:00 Lecture by Host of the Day: Piet Pauwels
10:00 - 10:45 Lecture by Henkel
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture by RedesignMe
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture by Nokia
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 16:15 Workshops - Case work + presentations
16:15 - 16:30 Drink - announcement of winners case competition
16:30 - 18:30 Drink - company fair - personal interviews
More info here: http://www.3ma.nl/mmd/
I did a video interview with the Dutch website NuZakelijk, last wednesday. You can watch it here: http://www.nuzakelijk.nl/20080815/nuzakelijk-video/iedereen-productontwerper-bij-redesignme Dutch only. 
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RedesignMe will join this year’s PIMRC conference in Cannes, France on 16 September 2008. Stephen Wolak of Vodafone Group asked me to be part of a panel during the conference.The panel will discuss the subject: “Collaborative Innovation: Good for Business?”.
Abstract: “Open Innovation and Collaborative Innovation have attracted a lot of coverage in recent years, particularly with the publication of Don Tapscott’s book “Wikinomics”. What does collaborative innovation mean for large corporations? Is collaborative innovation good for traditional businesses? How can corporations collaborate and differentiate? Come along to the panel and hear leading experts in this field discuss these issues.”
More info here.
This week we are featured in the “Site gespot” area on Frankwatching.com.
Today we’ve put up a new RDM Challenge initiated by our client “DECT forum”. They have introduced a new wireless technology called CAT-iq and are currently in the product concept phase. DECT started a design competition for designers and design students to get new concepts. Through our RDM Challenge they would like to gain insights from non designers as well. Now is your chance to have a say in the product roadmap by sharing your ideas. To start just react to the product concept presented in the RDM Challenge. You can earn 25 RDMs with your input and you can exchange the RDMs in our new RDM-shop. Have fun!! To the challenge.
Yup! RedesignMe redesigned its own website to accommodate for the new RDM Challenges. Some stuff is still beta but all should be ready soon. Your feedback is welcome!Right now we are preparing some cool new RDM Challenges for you together with companies wanting to innovate collaboratively. It’s simple; you redesign their products and they pay you in RDMs, our online currency. After that you can convert your RDMs into prizes. Simple as that. Check back soo!
RedesignMe is invited to present at the 2-year Diverse Congress, held from July 1 - July 3 at the InHolland school in Haarlem (NL). DIVERSE began life as a Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) Phase 3 project, funded by the UK government through HEFCE, the Higher Educational Funding Council for England. The focus, however, is still on developing alternative modes of learning and teaching to complement the asynchronous text-based formats that predominate within e-learning. The DIVERSE aim is, more than ever, to act as a means for academics, schoolteachers, technologists and students to get together and share experience in an informal and open setting.