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Announcing the Green Business Camp UnConference
We’re so excited to unveil Green Business Camp to you.
Like you, we’ve been to MANY diverse conferences, presentations and seminars focused on green business. And although many of them have been wonderful and very informative we frequently left thinking “did that help me make progress with my business”, or “well, now what? How do I apply this new learning to me and my business?” Plus, we always felt like we managed to meet many of the other attendees; who we’re certain had some great experience and knowledge that we could have learned from.
From BarCamp to Green Business Camp
With this in mind, we decided to create our own event based on the creative spirit of BarCamp (a pioneering “user-generated” event born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment). We’ve created a mashup of BarCamp, green business, added a few additional tweaks …. and Green Business Camp was born. We’ll bring you the same powerful environment of creative, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, where you’ll make new business contacts and friends.
Let us tell you a bit about what Green Business Camp is …
Green Business Camp is a participation-oriented, entrepreneur-driven, one day “unconference” in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to the growth of green business. It will be taking place at the Greenv Sustainable Center in South San Francisco on Thursday April 30, 2009 from 8 am -5 pm.
This event will give you the opportunity to network, collaborate, and share knowledge with 100 top green business owners and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ready to attend? Check out our registration page.
Never been to an Unconference?
Then you’re in for a lot of excitement!
Green Business Camp isn’t your typical conference filled with PowerPoint presentations. Instead, in our innovative event program the participants themselves will create and lead event sessions. This will bring out the best ideas of the group and allow everyone to share knowledge and resources with other green businesses.
This video gives you a taste of what an unconference is like. (One difference will be that their attendees are giving short pitches on their new startups, we’ll have breakout sessions for group discussion and brainstorming on topics selected by event participants.)
Have a topic you would like to lead a discussion on? Want help with a business challenge you are facing? Or, perhaps you want feedback on a new idea or venture? Submit a discussion topic and get your own brainstorming team to help you.
So what’s the agenda?
Most of the agenda will be created by participants during the first hour of the event. We’ll be pulling topics from the above document or you can bring business topics for discussions that you want to lead or participate in. All of these topics will be voted on and organized into a schedule and from there you will choose which you want to attend.
From there, the topics that were voted on will be discussed in a 45 minute breakout session of approximately 20 people.
By the end of the day you will have attended 5-6 of breakout sessions where you’ll have met a few dozen other interesting green businesspeople.
A good start and a good finish
The day will kick off with a special “Art of Networking” workshop to give you tools and techniques to more easily make new business contacts and future business partners during the event.
We’ll end the day with a nice and relaxing wine tasting reception.
OK, now join us!
In recognition of the current economic challenges, Green Business Camp has implemented a “pay what you can” pricing model. Secure your place at Green Business Camp for only $25. At the end of the event, you can pay what the event was worth to you and ONLY what you can afford to invest.
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See you at Green Business Camp.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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August 23rd, 2009 at 12:45 am
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August 23rd, 2009 at 1:01 am
[...] by aleida, on May 5th, 2009 It was really great to hear Paul Hawken give the welcome address at the Green Business Camp UnConference last week. I had previously heard him speak at Greenbuild ‘07, but that was such a huge event [...]