What a Saturday. I had the chance to sit in on some interesting sessions at the inaugral Trampoline Melbourne, an unconference organised by Pat Allen, Melina Chan, and Steve Hopkins. It was held at Donkeywheel, Melbourne’s newest social change projects venue. 100 people from various disciplines came together to speak about their biggest ideas. I heard some interesting talks on complexity theory, persuasion psychology, trust systems as alternative economies, biomimicry, advertising and mass-collaboration, and missed out on hearing some apparently interesting talks on Zen IT and permaculture, personal prototyping, amongst others. The format of an unconference is simple. People turn up and the session agenda evolves as people put their hand up to speak.
I had a chance to present on future health, and explored the way technolology and open, accessible, data will have significant impacts on health outcomes when applied to the social determinants of health, namely, education, information equity, income, empowerment, and looked briefly at the potential of rapid learning systems to improve clinical processes and aid in clinical decision support.
Slides from my talk are below (it probably doesn’t make much sense as slides were only visual cues, but links to interesting sites are on slide 99), and video of the presentation here.
There will be another Trampoline in the future, so keep your ears out.
