Entries in #lwf11 (30)

Thursday
Jan272011

Q&A with Jimmy Wales & Lord Puttnam, closing session LWF11

A unique audience question and answer session to bring the London 2011 LWF Festival to a close with Lord David Puttnam and Jimmy Wales discussing learning and technology.

Facilitated by Learning Without Frontiers founder, Graham Brown-Martin

Thursday
Jan272011

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, LWF Talk, London 2011

Knowledge, collaboration, freedom & learning

Jimmy Wales is the US Internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer best known as the founder of Wikipedia. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" Jimmy asks us in this talk and discusses how Wikipedia has grown, the impact it has made and the people who contribute to its creation.

Jimmy discusses future directions for Wikipedia and Wikia, Inc

Thursday
Jan272011

Lord David Puttnam, LWF Talk, London 2011

Embracing disruption for a better learning future

Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate spent thirty years as an independent film producer with many award winning films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and the Memphis Belle. Retiring from film production in 1998 he has focused his work in education and the environment.

In this inspiring talk Lord Puttnam discusses the future of the creative and digital industries, the importance of ensuring  our learners are equipped for this future and makes a call to action for a positive new disruption that leads to radically improved learning and global access.

Thursday
Jan272011

Genevieve Shore, Pearson Plc, LWF Talk, London 2011

Is book publishing dead? Embracing digital disruption

Genevieve Shore is the Director of Digital Strategy for Pearson Plc and is responsible for their global strategy for digital technologies. Genevieve describes how she encourages Pearson to embrace the inevitable disruptions that the digital world brings to one of the worlds largest publishing companies and demonstrates how this is being achieved.



Thursday
Jan272011

David McCandless, Information is Beautiful, LWF Talk, London 2011

Data visualisation, infographics & learning

David McCandless is an information designer, visualiser and author of the Information is Beautiful book and online resource. David demonstrates through his own work how it is possible to cut through information overload and make sense of the vast quantity of data that we are confronted with in our everyday lives.