Welcome to the ESIP Summer Meeting 2012! This meeting will focus on the theme: ESIP Community Leadership: Innovation throughout the Data Life Cycle.
In a recent book on innovation, The Innovator’s DNA, Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen looked for common traits found among people thought to be highly innovative. Their conclusion was that innovators consistently do five things:
- Questioning allows innovators to break out of the status quo and consider new possibilities
- Through observing, innovators detect small behavioral details—in the activities of customers, suppliers, and other companies—that suggest new ways of doing things.
- In experimenting they relentlessly try on new experiences and explore the world.
- And through networking with individuals from diverse backgrounds, they gain radically different perspectives.
These four patterns of action together help innovators associate to cultivate new insights. Like DNA everyone inherently has these innovation skills, but no person combines them in the same way. Unlike DNA, the skills can also be practiced, innovators consistently act differently to think differently and by understanding these skills innovation organizationally can be enhanced.
The program is laid out by day, starting with an ‘at-a-glance’ page followed by session micro-abstracts for that day. As we move away from paper programs toward the ESIP Commons electronic program we are compromising with these 140 character micro-descriptions of the sessions. For full abstracts see the website: (http://commons.esipfed.org/schedule/Summer%20Meeting%202012). Throughout the meeting the meeting session pages will continue to grow with presentations presented, notes and action items. The next section in the program is poster abstracts. These are also available on the ESIP Commons (http://commons.esipfed.org/gallery/Summer%20Meeting%202012). We are excited about the extended lifespan the ESIP Commons will provide for this content. The last section of the program is bios, titles and abstracts of our plenary speakers.
This meeting is the first where we have used the ESIP Commons to publish meeting content -both session abstracts and posters. There are many benefits to the ESIP Commons, but one of the most immediate is the ability to pivot on content by ESIP collaboration area, person, organization or keyword. We also hope that it will make ESIP contributions more discoverable and reusable.
Special Events
ESIP Connections Video Booth – If you ask ESIP members about benefits they get from participating in ESIP activities and meetings, it always comes back to enabling participants to do their own work better. Many mention these components of innovation in their answers (2012 Winter Meeting Survey) - the benefit of idea exchange, networking or learning new things. These habits and thought processes provide a framework of specific actions and metrics that might be helpful in understanding, explaining to others, what it is about ESIP that makes it a productive space to work and how to continually create an innovative space for the Earth science informatics community to work.
This discussion starts with some ideas from The Innovator's DNA. It will be filled out by stories that members tell! Some questions that might start your thinking:
- What specific events in ESIP have helped members bring innovative ideas back from ESIP meetings to their organizations?
- How have other ESIP members helped to effectively bring those ideas to fruition?
- Is there some element of ESIP's organization that makes it inherently innovative?
Innovators Among Us Plenary Session - The second plenary session on Wednesday will be a variety of lightning talks from a group of self-identified innovators in the ESIP community. The speakers where given two choices for format: (1) Ignite-style, 5 minute talks with 20 slides, where the slides auto-advance every 15 seconds or (2) TED-style, 9 minute talks. Both styles lend themselves to creative ideas, boundary-pushing concepts and high energy. To avoid audience fatigue through the 13 speakers we will break ever 20 minutes and have a brief “core dump” at your table where you can jot down the ideas, questions and connections you made during the previous talks.
Innovators Among Us Follow-up – On Thursday afternoon from 3:30-5 Karl Benedict will lead a discussion session on ideas, thoughts and challenges that emerged from the plenary session.
Other Breakout Sessions that are supporting the innovation theme are tagged in the ESIP Commons with innovation: http://commons.esipfed.org/taxonomy/term/455
Housekeeping
Meeting Locations: Tuesday, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday we are in the Pyle Center. Wednesday morning through lunch and the poster session Wednesday evening, we are in Memorial Union, just down the street.
Poster set-up is during the morning break on Wednesday, July 18 in Memorial Union Great Hall. Poster presenters are responsible for set-up during the Wednesday break and teardown of posters after the reception. Foundation staff and volunteers are not responsible for lost posters or poster tubes.
Wireless code: Wireless codes are available at the registration desk.
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Remember the remote participants!! We have over 20 remote attendees. Use the microphones, turn on the webcams and engage those that are virtually attending. Thanks in advance for your help making this a great hybrid meeting!!
Water Bottle QR Code - Would you rather read this from your phone? The QR code links to a mobile site with links to meeting and ESIP information.
Birds of a Feather (BOF) – As the meeting unfolds, often there are topics or sessions you wish you’d planned. If you would like to have a side meeting or ad-hoc breakout session Room 220 starting Wed at 4:00 pm is open for these meetings. It has a projector, but you will need to bring your own computer.