Monday IIW8 Schedule

This is a Proposed Schedule for Monday.

IIW is growing and changing. All the conversations that need to happen are not able to happen by the end of wednesday. One way to expand the event is to have Open Space begin on Monday morning and have an emphasis on creating space for new people to lead sessions asking questions to gain greater understanding of the space.


 * Begin with bagels and coffee at 8am
 * 9am Welcome and introductions - new people are asked to put forward their big questions in this process.
 * 9:30 Open Space Agenda making
 * 10-11 Session 1
 * 11:15-12:15 Session 2
 * 12:15-1:15 Lunch
 * 1:15-2:15 Session 3
 * 2:15-2:45 Day Closing
 * 3-5:30 - Startup and Product Show case
 * 7:00 Dinner in Mountain View (likely at a place called Fiesta)

More on the proposed Startup and Product Showcase.

This would be combo - of OSIS interop, speed geeking and trade show.

It would be open to anyone in the community that has a company with a product that has to do with the space. A good barrier to entry is to say that they need to have attended an IIW before.

Funding to particiapte - $ would be required for companies to present however this would be done on a "pay what you can" sliding scale.

Each of the major meta-intiatives can tell their overall story - by having signage and information about the products that people are working on.

Publicity - we work on promoting this to broader silicon valley - sort of like a coming out party/open house now that we have significant projects and products with things to show. We would need a PR/marketing strategy/plan to do this.

Preparation - Maybe we work on some orientation video those who have not been with us all day can watch to get oriented.

I think we "do" the intro talks but have them recorded a month ahead of time. Also the information packets will be published a month ahead of time.