Scottish Learning Festival News

March 27th, 2008

Second keynote speaker announced

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Described as an ideas generator, strategic adviser and one the most influential creative people in the world, we are excited to confirm Charles Leadbeater as a keynote at SLF 2008. He is Tony Blair’s favourite corporate thinker.

The New York Times anointed Charlie’s idea, The Pro-Am Revolution, as one of the 12 biggest global ideas of 2004. In 2008, Spectator Magazine described him as “the wizard of the web”. Charlie writes regularly for the Financial Times and the Guardian. In 2002 he was listed by GQ magazine as one of the 40 Most Powerful Men in the United Kingdom, in 2003 Accenture, the global management consultancy, ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world, and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK. A prolific writer, Charlie specialises in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has written reports on entrepreneurship in knowledge based business, creative business and the public sector. Charlie’s current research is on new, open and networked approaches to innovation, a project which has taken him from Finland and Holland to Singapore, Bangalore, Shanghai, Brazil and Dubai, as well as the United States. That project is hot on the heels of his Atlas of Ideas report for DEMOS, the think tank, charting the rise of science and innovation in China and India.

His latest book ‘We-Think: The Power of Mass Creativity’ was published in March 2008.

For more information on Charlie, visit www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk

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March 17th, 2008

Tree of Knowledge’s maiden SLF voyage

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Tree of Knowledge joins the Scottish Learning Festival 2008 and takes on their inaugural role as lead sponsor.

Tree of Knowledge delivers unique pupil workshops, fun-filled learning experiences for staff and work in partnership with Local Education Authorities to create exciting ‘hands on’ resources.

This year, for the first time, Tree of Knowledge has teamed up with North Lanarkshire Learning and Leisure services to develop a wonderful new resource specifically for Early Years. ‘Peapodo for Early Years’ will be launched at the Scottish Learning Festival this September.

Do you have a question about Peapodo or Tree of Knowledge’s work, but it can’t wait until the festival? Then ask your questions here.

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For further information on sponsorship opportunities, email [email protected].

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