Ah, those serendipitous moments of connection! Sitting at the right table for the perfect discussion. Getting your ideas into a policy paper at just the right time. The joy of finding hundreds - even thousands - of people like you who share common values and goals, and who can gain hugely out of sharing amongst each other. We can do so much good with networks, on a personal and collective level. And yet if we think of a vision for the future, we clearly have a long way to go. In this keynote Mark will share his research on how networks can function dramatically better and discuss ways that we can achieve this in the near future by changing practices, technology (to scale), and most importantly, our mindset.

This talk gets into collective intelligence and networks. Mark shares his frustration in how bad networking is... compared to how good it could be. He also shares his Zimbabwe example to show that it really is possible to make use of networks to do good.

Associations World Congress