The second NewWOW Symposium was held January 21-23, 2007 at the historic Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. The highly interactive discussions explored the role of place in a distributed world. Twenty five thought leaders from a variety of disciplines discussed and argued about whether place still mattered. Participants spent an event-laden two days learning together and sharing their knowledge about the changing workplace.
Each attendee was invited to participate based on his or her expertise in a particular area of distributed work. Contributors came from a wide variety of backgrounds including workplace planning, psychology, consulting, real estate and facilities, technology, research, industry analysis, workplace services, architecture, and journalism.
The symposium featured a series of panels. Discussion topics included:
- An international perspective: How different cultures view workspace
- New workplace and workgroup technology
- The uses of place
- Measuring the performance of distributed teams
- Designing workplaces that breed innovation
Jim Creighton and Joe Ouye, co-founders of the New Ways of Working Network, served as facilitators and knowledge managers for the sessions. Lively discussions, a design charrette, and creative group presentations of the design outcomes kept the attendees focused and energized.
For more on the conference, see the conversation transcript at http://www.newwow.net/members/node/358
