Participation Roles
OpenForum
Do you want to discuss a topic that you can’t find anyone to talk to about or have people answer a specific question that has been bothering for years? Submit your ideas, thoughts, questions, and responses online right on the Program and help shape the first 4SITE Forum conference! Time slots will be posted soon for people to sign up specific topics or even to hold presentations or lead discussions.
The conference will offer OpenForums (following the BarCamp model) in which people can sign up before or during the conference to hold presentations and continue discussions with their peers. 4SITE Forum maintains an ethic of collaboration and participation and is based as much on what happens before the conference as during the conference.
Come engage with your fellow participants both virtually and at the conference!
Below are the following other ways to engage with 4SITE Forum:
1) 4SITE Shorts: Start Up and Innovation Short Presentations
Ever want to present on a new idea or technology that could change the world? Interested in presenting on a common challenge in the field of entrepreneurship? Can you do it in 6 minutes?
Come share a short presentation modeled after Pecha Kucha with leading thinkers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Presenters will prepare a lively 6 minute 40 second Powerpoint presentation of around 20 slides (20 seconds per slide) and then take questions from the audience for another 4 minutes. Topics can range from presenting a new company or a new innovation to considering the implications of entrepreneurship or giving your top 10 tips for starting a business.
To apply, send a description of the presentation and two sample slides to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
2) 4SITE Talks: Inspire Short Videos
Do you have an inspiring video about your organization or business? Do you have an eye-opening video talk exploring your ideas, new concepts, or creative innovations?
Submit a short video modeled after Ted Talks and have it shown at the conference and posted on the website. Submit your video online here or email to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
3) 4SITE Demos
Do you try to gather family and friends into the living room to show them how a new software works? Do you want to show off a platform you designed or a technological tool you integrated into your non-profit organization? Would you like to encourage businesses to try a new type of database?
Be one of many demonstrators sharing your innovative inventions or tools that you have applied to your business or organization.
To apply, send a description of your demonstration to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
4) 4SITE Exhibits
Do you have an idea or information about your company or organization that you would like to share with people through a visual exhibit? Do you have materials to share or a sign-up list to sign people up to receive important information about your work? Do you have creative ideas around organizing an exhibit space?
Come join other businesses and organizations in setting up a booth at 4SITE Forum for participants to learn about your work and pick up information.
To sign-up, send a blurb about your business or organization and a short description of what would be included in the exhibit to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
5) Live Bloggers and Tweeters
Do you want to participate in live blogging or live tweeting? Be one of the 4SITE Forum bloggers covering presentations by some of the leading figures in the fields of technology, entrepreneurship, and social impact.
Our objective is to also have a person blogging and twittering at every session. Your blogs will be linked to our website and your tweets will be projected into the main hall of the conference venue and will be broadcast live onto our site!
To apply, send an email and brief description of your background to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
6) Workshop Facilitators
Do you like to facilitate workshops and teach practical skills or difficult concepts? Do you have a technical background in a useful software program or knowledge of how companies can maximize social impact?
Hold a workshop on a topic that you propose or request to take charge of one of the following ones:
- Open Source Operating Systems: Pros and Cons
- Managing Multilingual Media and Websites: the Arab-English Balance
- Best Practices on Starting and Sustaining a start-up
- Freedom, Citizenship and Education as a Driver of Innovation
- Mobile Technologies
- Doubling Returns: How to Invest for Both Profit and Impact Maximization
- How to Launch Initiatives in Weak Economies
- Coming Up with Innovative Strategies
Workshops will be composed of short presentations with Q&A and different interactive activities interspersed.
To apply, send a description of your proposed workshop and CV to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
7) 4Mulate: Entrepreneurs Creating Businesses
Have you started or are you starting a business? Do you want to share your tips, challenges, lessons learned, and successes with others as well as engage them to contribute feedback and even problem-solve issues with you?
Come participate in our entrepreneur small group sessions and present your business strategy in different small group sessions and meet other entrepreneurs and innovators who have suggestions for your business.
To apply, send a description of your business and the main topic you would discuss to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
8) Panel Speakers and Moderators
We are also looking for additional panel speakers and moderators. For more information, contact Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
We are open to other creative ideas for collaboration and participation, so feel free to send all inquiries or suggestions to Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com.
