DIG SOUTH Interactive Festival

Introductions: Steve Dykes, Economic Development Director, Charleston County

About four years ago, Cheryl Cheng, an operating partner at Blue Run Ventures and co-founder at BrandGarage, started seeing the Fortune 500 come to Silicon Valley to do their technology shopping. Today, the Bay Area is home to corporate labs, accelerators, and venture arms that actively engage with the startup community. Many brands are seeking relationships with technology innovators that extend beyond the one-day showcase. As a corporate executive who is looking to champion new technology from within your company, how do you sell new technology up the chain and minimize risk? Labs and accelerator programs draw substantial resources and have seen mixed results in the corporate innovation community.

This session delivers 21 proven ideas to help your mind, body, and soul thrive at your startup. From “Check Entitlement at the Door” and “Be Your Own Worst Critic” to “Work Out or Tap Out” and “Classy Never Goes Out of Style,” these lessons from entrepreneurs Chad Norman and Christina Lock, who helped build 2013’s fastest-growing software company SPARC, provide a framework for living the startup life – from garage to corporate headquarters. Their experiences, along with those of successful industry leaders, will help you create the company of your dreams, and the lifestyle to survive it. Think, feel, and love your startup…and your head, heart, soul, (and profits) will follow!

The goal of this workshop is to demonstrate how futures studies (also known as foresight) can help designers and strategists: (i) imagine a functional forward view of future worlds, (ii) create services/products in the contexts of those worlds (iii) understand systemic implications based on the relationship between the service/product and the future world. During this workshop we introduce some of the basic concepts of future studies and drawing from the decades of research in this field, teach and practice specific futures methods. These methods will then combined with more traditional design tools (e.g. user research, journey mapping, rapid prototyping etc.) to demonstrate how futures can empower designers and strategists to deal with change.

WikiWealth’s FIRST EVER value investing app gives investors a real time look at value and risk. Our analyst put Wall Street’s top secret research at your fingertips, because every investor needs this level of quality. Search over 2,500 stocks and compare investments with the easy to use value-dometer. Want more data? The cash flow, comparative, and buffet approaches reveal 4 key financial metrics used in our financial modelling.