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The Great Wave

A collection of highlights from our 2020 main gathering.
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Unhappy Hour

What’s wrong with business today? Let it all out.

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Opening Ceremony

Learn about the vision for beautiful business!

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Main Session One: The Anatomy of a Wave

From ocean to quantum to viral to social waves

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Become the Wave: A 3D Audio Journey

Dip your ears in the water of what is to come.

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Main Session Two: Weak Signals

Explore what is out there on the horizon, barely visible to the eye

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Main Session Three: Imagine

Time to dream big

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Main Session Four: From Human-Centered to Humane

What if the fixation on human needs is the very problem we need to overcome?

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Main Session Five: Wounds That Heal

From protest to policies, from wokeness to togetherness

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Main Session Six: Point Break

At this point, there is no return

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Main Session Seven: The New Playbook

From a new renaissance age to reimagining capitalism

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The Society of Skeptics: Inaugural Gathering

Found the ideas on stage too lofty, the arguments not convincing?

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How Can We Cure Management?

Can management help us solve our problems?

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Intimacy, Playfulness, Surrender

From the Local Hub in Sydney

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Happy Climate

A workshop on climate-positivity

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Deep Tech: The Third Wave

From synthetic biology to co-designing with nature

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Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

How three skateboards in Kabul turned into an international movement.

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Friction and Flow

Explore resilience in the face of extreme friction

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Radical Reforms

From Basic Income to Zebra Startups to “Exit to Community”

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All About Empathy

Has empathy over-promised and under-delivered?

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Silent Hour

Enough said. Unmute yourself and be silent together.

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From the Anthropocene to the Microbiocene

Will the pandemic force a new concept of the self versus nature?

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Ritual Hour

How to turn your every day (work) activities into sacred practices.

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Time Rebels and Good Ancestors

What can we learn from the past to ensure our well-being in the long term?

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Profit and Beauty

A collective orientation exercise for business builders, gardeners, and rainmakers.

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Seeing New York

Walk around a pandemic-stricken Manhattan.

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Learning from Afghanistan

A conversation about loss of control, trust, and collectivism.

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The Promise of Steward Ownership

How does steward ownership actually work?

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The Great Masquerade

This party will never kill nobody.

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The Society of Skeptics with Girls Gearing Up

Join the discussion with a group of young critics

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The Business-Is-Pleasure Feast

Business and pleasure––how can these two go together?

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Qanon and a Hyper-Connected Society in Distress

How the internet is prone to spreading conspiracy theories.

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I Came Here to Speak About Love: Feedback in Business

Deep dive into the uncomfortable concept of connection in business.

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Educating for Beautiful Business

How can we teach beautiful business?

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AI Governance: Diversity by Design

AI’s biases are our biases. How can AI help us overcome them?

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Natural Coherency

A poem with the lyricism of computer code.

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Tatazumai

The Japanese way of calm technology and design

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When We Tango

A tango night at the Milonga

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Wild Solo

Go on a solo trip into nature

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A Life Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad, author, Between Two Kingdoms

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Nurturing our Nature

How do we nurture nature––and by doing so, nurture ourselves?

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30 Minute Masks

Ready for The Great Masquerade?

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Grief is Co-Creation

For the losses of the past and those of the future

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Fado Meets Meditation

Presented by Grupo Ageas Portugal

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Enduring Truth: A Worldwide Pilgrimage

A walking meditation on facts, data, and truth.

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World Tour to Local Hubs

Around the world in 30 minutes

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A Conversation About Making Conversation

With writer Laura Holson and author Fred Dust

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I Came Here to Speak About Love: Loss in Business

Anyone can come in and look into Esther's eyes.

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Society of Skeptics

With Esra Karakaya and Bruno Giussani

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75 Questions That Lead to Doubt

Talk to all the nagging voices in your head

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Learning from the Liminal Space

Hosted by SYPartners

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The Moonshot Thinking Workshop

Take your ideas to the next level.

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The Anatomy of a Wave

A film by Filmmakers-in-Residence Jesse May Palmer and Ida Thomasdotter.

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Kid Futurists

What the next generation wants

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It Will Come

A dance performance from Lisbon

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Quarantine

A visual poem

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The Morning After

Regrets? I have a few.

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The Art of Reinvention

A conversation with Guy Kawasaki

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Soundwaves: FAUXPAS

Get up, close your eyes, and let our DJs take you away.

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Soundwaves: Max & Mellow

Get moving with Max & Mellow.

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House Concert with Jungran Cho

Enjoy a live performance from Seoul, Korea.

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House Concert with Rick Parker, Ganavya, and Mark Aanderud

Trombone meets electronica meets South Indian tradition.

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House Concert with Li Daiguo

Flow into day four, with pipa and cello.

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House Concert with Frederico Vannini and Violeta Barrio Collado

Move on with flamenco by musicians-in-residence!

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House Concert with Munir Hossn and Diego Espinosa

Live from Mexico City, Paris, and Berlin

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Roaring Twenties

Old Marlene Dietrich meets new Marlene

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5 2 9

A dedication to beautiful business at night

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Moving Towards Paracosm: A Dance Documentary

Exploring where imagination origins and where it can lead

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Changes in Mood

By Michèle Saint-Michel

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The Imaginary Crisis

Geoff Mulgan and Tim Leberecht

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Cold Water, Warm Bodies

Audio-shadow a first-time winter-swimmer

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House Concert

Munir Hossn and Diego Espinosa

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Closing Ceremony

Gather for a fond farewell

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This was (is) The Great Wave

Relive year's hybrid gathering

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