Chain Reaction
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The Event
The Event - Overview
On the 17th and 18th November 2008, the Chain Reaction event brought together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, and young people from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally
There are many reasons to be positive about what happened - over 1000 people, from 16 countries, at least 200 aged under 21, community organisations from up and down the country and beyond (including Oxfam, Child Poverty Action Group and Family Housing Birmingham) and artists from Brazil, the Philippines, Croatia, Canada, Iceland and Kenya, Social Entreprenuers, bloggers and techies with new tools to try out, business leaders (among others, CEOs from Royal Mail, BBC, IBM, CBI, BITC, Accenture) and a roll call of Ministers - including a 45 minute visit from the PM, who made Chain Reaction his next stop after the Economic Summit in Washington.
All this, PLUS the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week, and then concluding with a celebration of inspiring people and projects with the Beacon Fellowship Awards.
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Connect
The connect desk helped delegates meet with someone in particular - whether that be an individual from a certain organisation, or someone with a particular skill. We have featured some of the connections made on our flickr stream - we’ve only put up the ones that are still relevant outside of the event, so if you see one you can help with we can put you in touch (we have had to cover contact details for data protection purposes!) See the connections here
Collaborate
The collaborate desk enabled those attendees who had a burning issue, passion or idea that they wanted to discuss to book their own meeting time and place, and then advertise it to the rest of the attendees!
See some of the topics discussed here:
Commit
Attendees at the event who wanted to commit to doing something as a result of Chain Reaction were able to submit their own commitments at the event. We will shortly have the facility for you to post your own commitments on this site (our tech team are currently working on this now!), but in the meantime email us your commitment and we will get it featured on the site Take a look at some of the commitments here
Reporting Team at Chain Reaction
The Chain Reaction event was supported by a team of social and young reporters, who filmed, blogged and tweeted their way through the event - connecting Chain Reaction to the outside world.
SENSE Media - a youth led media agency - filmed various elements of the Chain Reaction event, with their reporter Leanne Butterfield interviewing speakers such as Campbell Robb, Director General, Office of the Third Sector, John Bird, Editor in Chief at the Big Issue, and Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government among others. Click here to see the video footage for Day 1.
Click here to see footage of Day 2.
Our Social Reporter Team consisted of experts in their field including; David Wilcox, Darragh Doyle, Peter Anderson, Amy Sample Ward, Steve Bridger, Claire White, and Farhan Rehman, who blogged ‘live’ (where our wi-fi system would allow!) from Chain Reaction 2008. You can read some of their reports over the next couple of page.
Matt Waring and Mark Rock of Best Before Media provided a fantastic video booth - called Video Boo - at the Chain Reaction event, which was used by attendees to record their thoughts, ideas and inspirations. You can see all of these videos on our YouTube channel. Here, the Team talk about how to use Video Boo
Best Before Media also provided their Millicent system to enable attendees at the event, and those participating online, to Twitter directly to screens around the venue.
Click here to hear Ian Hughes, IBM Evangelist talk about Social Media
Click here to to hear the Social Reporting team talk about what worked at Chain Reaction 2008
Volunteers
We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all of the volunteers at the Chain Reaction event, who worked hard to ensure that everything ran to time, and were available to help delegates throughout the two days.
Exhibitors
We would like to say a massive thank you to all of our exhibitors at the Chain Reaction event - who included:
DfID
Triodos Bank
We Are What We Do
IKM Project
National Drama
Community Links
See what happened on Day 1 / See what happened on Day 2
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