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Can science fiction predict the future?
Here at AMP, we're focused on the future and what tomorrow will bring. So if you're looking for an inspirational futuristic discussion with a man with very BIG ideas, don't miss this Samplify session with Cory Doctorow.
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From MADMEN to AMP - Pitch like Don Draper
A rare opportunity to develop and crystallise your creative thoughts and ideas, tighten them up and prepare them into eloquent and powerful submissions that will wow your stakeholders.
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Mark Stevenson rocked!!
On Wednesday 11 April, Mark Stevenson launched Samplify in Sydney and Melbourne. Check out the video from the Melbourne session right here.
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Starting off Samplify with a BANG!
"I've come to realise that our future, rather than being a damage limitation exercise, could be a renaissance. I'm not saying the future will be better, I'm saying it could be - and everyone of good conscience should be in that game." Mark Stevenson
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Tomorrow is up for grabs... let's make it good
Samplify will offer a range of lectures and workshops starting on 11 April and running through to the end of the year. Offering the same world-class presenters that you have seen at Amplify, we're starting off with a bang with Mark Stevenson.
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The Amplify Speakers Speak...About Amplify 2011!
Hear what the Amplify speakers think of the Amplify experience in this short video.
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The Many Layers Of Amplify: Tech On Tap & Expo Wrap Up
Tech On Tap and the Expo add their own subtle flavours to the Amplify pie, injecting yet more fun, personality and free thinking innovation into the big week.
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A blogpost from Amplify speaker, Paul Cooper
How can we take advantage of the amazing connectivity available today that kinks us to brilliant minds, sparkles our thoughts with the magic dust that fosters creativity and inspires us?
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The Amplify Live Stream: How Do They Do That?
The Amplify live stream: an excellent example of effective innovation on a shoestring budget. It cost very little, it hit very hard. How did we do it? It's easy when you know how, explains producer/director/chief technician Steven Lewis...
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Getting up close and personal with Generation C
Move over Generation Y… Generation C are taking control! So what better way to find out about this new breed… than to bring one of them in for an Amplify session!
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Face Off Finale - Iveta Brigis & Jim Benson
The fourth and final Face Off see's Jim Benson and Iveta Brigis join forces to help us all achieve more, smile more and enjoy work to the max...
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Reputation and brand in an instantly connected world
We’ve had some wonderful insights, perspectives and futuristic views during Amplify week but the audience who gathered to hear from Richard Binhammer was looking forward to hearing a real life case study.
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Why does technology matter?
Andrew McAfee inverted the normal order of his presentation when he kicked off by asking the audience a question. ‘What have been the biggest stories in human history?’
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Get social or die!
Jeremiah Owyang’s workshop today flew by in a whirr of audience interaction as we delved into the world of social media. This is a guy who really knows what he’s talking about! Jeremiah is a web-strategist, customer experience and brand champion.
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The future of money is Facebook?
Venessa Miemis is a futurist researching what is happening at the intersection of technology, and how this will impact society… so her session at Amplify on ‘the future of money’ was always going to be one which drew the big crowds!
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Why work? The desires that drive us
Day two of the Amplify Festival and a full house for the session with one of Australia’s leading social researchers, Hugh Mackay.
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When everyone and everything connects, anywhere, anytime
It was an early start for the first Amplify sessions this morning, but with coffees in hand an eager crowd filed onto the 25th floor of the AMP building to hear from one of the mobile industry’s most influential strategists, Bob Egan.
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The truths about marketing to baby boomers with social media
It wasn’t just baby boomers who packed into Debbie Weil’s Amplify session at AMP today… employees from across the generations headed along to hear Debbie’s thoughts on why we should care about social media.
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Face Off pt 3 - Debbie Weil & Richard Binhammer
Want to get the low down on the nitty gritty of social media in the corporate world? Keep on reading...
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Social Media At Work: Making Life Easier For Everyone - Richard Binhammer Speaks
Learn how to make social media work for you at work with this great interview with Richard Binhammer, Dell Social Media & Community Director
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Face Off pt 2 - Gunter Pauli & Ian Dunlop
The second Face Off installment takes of where Cate Blanchett left off, tackling the tough questions around climate change, the carbon tax and what it all means for business.
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Timelapse Magic: Speakers Meet Street Artists
Check out 2 hours worth of artistic magic squeezed into 30 secs and watch some of Amplify's sessions to come to fruition in front of your very eyes...
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Amplify TV - Watch Speaker Sessions Free Online
It’s free and easy and open to anyone. Amplify TV will stream almost all of the speaker sessions live from June 6-10, then provide hi def videos free, for everyone, for ever more on this very site.
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Sydney's Finest Street Artists Paint The Amplify Speakers
How do you picture the future? You get some of Sydney’s best artists to draw it for you. On 2.4 metre canvasses, live in the AMP reception.
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The Premier Face Off - Nigel Cameron & Caleb Winder
What happens when we put five fearsome questions to two of the world's most expansive thinkers? We get a unique insight into the future and the first part of the Amplify Face Off series...
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind… but what was the question?
Annalie Killian has been the driving-force, curator and producer behind each Amplify Festival. So when she told me that she thinks Nigel Cameron will ‘blow everyone’s minds’ at Amplify ‘11… I thought it was worth finding out more about him.
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[Podcast] Jim Benson - Maximum Productivity, Minimum Effort
Jim Benson has been put on this earth to make our lives easier, hallelujah! In this short interview Jim explains how his fiendishly clever yet simple techniques will transform your ugly, overgrown to do list into a bunch of friendly faced tasks.
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Politics, sex, religion and other things you shouldn't talk about
Around the dinner table of today, another taboo topic is emerging as a heated source of debate. Flop this one out on the table and watch the chardonnay splutter and the eyeballs pop.
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Would You Give Your Right Arm To See Your Favourite Speaker With Your Bestie?
Well it’s your lucky day! Head on over to the Amplify Facebook page, take 30 secs to vote in our poll and you could soon be the proud owner of a pair of tickets to an Amplify speaker session.
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What can financial services learn from pizza?
The financial services industry delivers something a bit more complicated than pizza. But the changing behaviour of the financial services customer in the digital age is within the same paradigm as that of the pizza customer.
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Turning trash to treasure
Nature does not know the concept of waste; the only species capable of making something no one desires is the human species." Gunter Pauli, ZERI Foundation, Amplify Speaker
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The World's First Smartphone Famine!
Ditch your mobile phone for a day and help disadvantaged kids in rural communities to communicate.
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Master of the universe?
John O'Sullivan is the Australian star-gazer, and Amplify speaker, who transformed modern-day telecommunications by inventing Wi-Fi.
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The rise of social business
Droves of switched on businesses are already using social media as part of their customer engagement and brand strategy. Have no doubt, it is a groundswell, and connected individuals and businesses will soon outnumber the unconnected.
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Remember the days when an apple was something you ate?
There are few brands in the world that inspire devotion quite like Apple. But what is the magic formula behind the cult of Apple?
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Bridging the gap between the rich and poor in an interconnected world
Tremendous wealth is being created in the world today thanks to globalisation and the power of technology and markets. Yet there is an increasing gap between rich and poor. What can be done to bridge this gap?
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Can You Afford Not To Friend The Over 50's?
Amplify speaker and corporate blogging expert Debbie Weil reveals that the over 50's are the fastest growing users of social media on the web.
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The Amplify Expo - Apply To Exhibit Now!
Applications to exhibit at the Amplify Expo are now open. Places are limited, so get in quick!
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How many dots need to connect to make one Amplify?
Annalie Killian, Curator and Producer of Amplify, reflects on the magic worked by AMP's team of volunteers to produce the week-long festival.
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The future is coming – are you prepared?
Speaker spotlight on John M. Smart, futurist, systems theorist, founder and president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation.
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[Podcast] Roger Dennis talks about why you should attend Amplify
Amplify's Steven Lewis talks to kiwi strategic innovation consultant, Roger Dennis, about why Amplify is an must-do event on his innovation calendar.
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Spotlight on Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli, serial entrepreneur, innovator and author of The Blue Economy, is coming to Amplify Festival. What is 'The Blue Economy'? Find out here.
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Is Wikileaks government 2.0?
Government 2.0 implies a greater use of technology, more public consultation and public input, and more transparency. Is Wikileaks a taste of government to come?
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Why do you do what you do?
Can you give a simple answer to a simple question?
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Is it ever alright to stop innovating?
Can companies ever rest on their laurels after delivering a product that does what it says on the tin?
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Hyper-connected consumers and the future of retail
Insights and ideas around the future of retail shopping explored at the AMP Social Media cafe by four different thought leaders.
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AMP Social Media Cafe: Foursquare
This month Social Media Cafe will explore the emergence of geo-location based social platforms like Foursquare and their role and potential for integration with retail shopping experiences.
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Detectives make terrific art critics
CIA, FBI and Secret Service agents must see plenty of the ugly side of life, but that isn't why they've been spending time soaking in the beauty at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
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[Podcast] Amplify 11 launches with a magic show
AMP's Catalyst for Magic, Annalie Killian, waved her wand and officially launched Amplify 11 this week.
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Ideas bubble over at the launch of Amplify ‘11
Over 100 people packed into a venue space on Wednesday 27 October to discover what’s ‘bubbling up’ for next year’s Amplify Festival.
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What if the internet weren't free?
If you're making the assumption that the internet will stay as it is, that you will always be able to put your business online anytime you like, it's worth looking at the Internet Society's work because the internet might not always be free.
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Look into my eyes
Amplify Fesitival alumnus Jeff Carter is looking deep into the eyes of more than one million residents of Leon, Mexico.
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Colourful mavericks, persistence and the Internet's non-linear path of innovation
Interview with Bob Metcalfe - maverick, terrible forecaster and co-inventor of the Ethernet (a local area network that connects computers to one another over short distances),
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Checking Facebook is the most efficient way to feel like you matter
Amplify alumnus BJ Fogg is writing a book on the psychology of Facebook
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Colourful mavericks, persistence and the Internet's non-linear path of innovation
Interview with Bob Metcalfe - maverick, terrible forecaster and co-inventor of the Ethernet (a local area network that connects computers to one another over short distances),
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The only way out is through
Fostering personal effectiveness and team collaboration with the use of a kanban.
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Get ready for Amplify 2011, connecting minds and seeding ideas for innovation
Since its humble beginnings in 2005 as an experiment in collective learning, the Amplify Festival of Innovation and Thought Leadership has grown into a bi-annual festival of cutting-edge ideas and emerging trends.
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Partnering with Amplify
Want to amplify your brand via Amplify? Bring us your ideas. Write to Annalie Killian at amplify (at ) amp (dot) com (dot) au or leave a message below.
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