Ideas Fest – August 22

Ideas Fest – Making Connections

We travelled to take a look at what is going down in the all new business festival, Ideas Fest. Thanks to our Ecosystem friends Vyn Shoes – we took their place as unfortunately they couldn’t attend.

Our highlights were meeting and listening to the very interesting entrepreneurs and thought leaders .. especially Michael Acton Smith creator of Calm App .. We know as we are working we love to listen especially to the ”Work Flow” music – as well as calming our days ready for architecting the ecosystem. We loved his thoughts on creating a business and a common theme between all that we listened to in it being a very wobbly journey.. never a straight line with some good measures of luck thrown in .. much like our own journeys into new business, new economics and the regenerative structuring needed to work into the collaborative. I am sure many of our collaborators can resonate with the journey and its great to get a sense that it isn’t all rosy.

We inside the Incubator want to make that journey less wobbly, our main aim to have players work in collaboration, creating collab brands, R&D function, streamlining systems, co-circularity, co-marketing and much more.

We loved meeting other peers in the sustainability and circularity space .. especially our new friends in Birmingham Maddie Booth and the team at Scrubee and The BEC. .. Great to meet another Gluvy (Gluten free Vegan) too .. as our very own Rachel Sheila Kan is… We hope to catch up IRL soon when we go up to the midlands to meet collaborators and clients.

Lovely to meet Ruth Woodley and her partner sharing their iced tea brand .. great business people .. we wish you well.

We especially loved the unexpected addition of getting into our nature connection once again as we stayed in a beautiful location close by .. life on the farm seemed to be a safe haven and a reminded to always keep our purpose as we build business.

We as Ecosystem Architects are making the trusted bonds in the spaces in order to work in collaboration and share all of our work .. which is our main focus. Building win win business, ventures, R&D projects and collaborative marketing for all.

We are reminded to make hay whilst the sun shines, concentrate on the key core of the ecosystem, working in a regenerative living breathing system that has everyone thrive and share nutrients. We look forward to what can be done as a collective inside these wonderful events to showcase the greater whole.

All power and credit goes to Franchesca James and her team for pulling off a great event, we hope to be there next year with bells on and with more of our collaborators and co-creations from inside The Ecosystem Incubator.

Check out our video here of our very own Simon Hedley asking a question of Steven Bartlett of Dragons Den fame.