OuiShare Fest Paris 2017

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

At Enspiral - a network of 250 entrepreneurs building solutions to systemic problems - we get things done with no named bosses. However, just because there are no bosses doesn’t mean there isn’t leadership.

In fact, leadership is paramount to highly functioning organisations. In the new world of work where teams and organisational are perpetually dynamic, responsive leadership is even more pivotal. At the same time, leadership is becoming more nuanced - more about service and facilitation than command and control.

In this Masterclass we will address leadership in bossless organisations and discuss and practice techniques, methods, theories and the really hard parts of leading without explicit control.

Our methodology draws on experiential theory from working at Enspiral and from our self managing livelihood pod with the network. We will also refer to our online training Practical Self Management.

We’ll explore how the systemic structure of our operating systems reinforce and unleash culture, and prototype new ways to lead, based on real-life experiments.
Join us if you want to learn while participating!

Topics that will be covered:

• Benefits of bossless leadership
• Catalysts: an experiment in service based leadership
• Social contracts and agreements
• Generosity, Facilitation, Stewardship
• Decision Making
• Deliberately Developmental Organising

Who is this class for?

Anyone interested in learning more about the real life practise of organising without bosses.

What will you learn?

• Techniques of bossless leadership
• Tools and processes for catalysing your team and organisation
• An experience of the joy of losing control

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

While resilience is becoming a key framework to cities, entrepreneurs and organizations still struggle to figure out what it actually means for them and how they need to change the way they operate to become more resilient.

In this Masterclass you will learn a framework for organizational change, focusing on culture as a lever for change in the business model of both new and existing organizations that want to become more resilient.
The first part of the masterclass includes an introduction to urban resilience. Participants will learn to use a framework enabling organizations to operationalize resilience and adjust it to the needs of the organization, its key stakeholders and the local environment.
Then, following Edgar Schein’s argument that strategies are determined by organizational culture, the second part will focus on building a culture of resilience in both new and existing organizations. By applying a systemic design approach to complex problems, fusing design thinking with behavioral economics, organizational change and systems thinking, participants will learn how to [re]design a business model grounded in a resilient mindset and culture.
Who is this class for?
Entrepreneurs, corporate managers, people interested organizational change, strategic designers, consultants, people working on innovation in cities

What will you learn?
Participants will emerge from the masterclass with greater capacity to operate as creative problem solvers, critical thinkers, and leaders in organizations in the context of urban resilience. Here are some of the questions we'll explore during the Masterclass:

• what does urban resilience can mean for your organization?
• how to change your organization's mindset?
• how to design a resilient culture and a business model based on one?
• how to overcome obstacles and resistance to change?
• how to engage and inspire key stakeholders around urban resilience?
• how to benefit from such a change?

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As they grow, many organisations become more hierarchical and their formal structures may result in rigidity and silos. This masterclass introduces you to a methodology that will enable you to tap into your collective intelligence and focus on value creation.
In this session you will identify strategic goals for your organization and learn how to accomplish them by unleashing the genius of your teams. You will learn a methodology to facilitate the work of your organisation and how to capture and share the key knowledge it produces.
During the session we will discuss a range of key concepts and will carry out a series of exercises to gain a good understanding. We will present a series of topics related to knowledge, such as the difference between knowledge and information, what a knowledge asset is (and what is not), taxonomy vs ontology, stigmergy as well as the role of knowledge in boosting collaboration and informal networks. 
We will divide the attendees in four groups of five, and each group will choose a real-life challenges. Throughout the session, the groups will be able to apply the concepts learned to solve the challenge in a collaborative way.

Who is this class for?
This class is particularly useful for people who work at organisations of more than 15 members, who want to to tap into their collective intelligence, build institutional memory, become more efficient, agile and adaptable, and stimulate creativity and innovation.
To make the most of the class, we recommend you come with a strategic objective for your organisation for the next 6 to 12 months, which will help you make the most of the exercises.

What will you learn?

• What is knowledge and why it matters
• The role of collective intelligence in transforming organisations
• How to create and nurture Communities of Practice
• How to use knowledge as a key link in network organisations

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

Urban participatory sensing is a socio-technical process in which citizens use lightweight and accessible sensor technologies to collectively monitor their environment by gathering and sharing data. Beyond its great potential to develop collaborative and open cities, most of the citizen sensing initiatives deployed have not been sustainable and scalable projects.

Based on the Pentagrowth model: the five levers of exponential growth, we have developed a framework that aids the orchestration of large-scale engagement to solve urban and citizen issues. Its aims is to promote citizen innovation for common good. We focus in the development and evolution of a co-created city commons that promotes the deployment of new or adapted technologies for daily environments. These city commons co-created by citizens can benefit to society as a whole as they enable the deployment of new solutions to local problems, the improvement of the existing infrastructures, the creation of a data economy and the development of new skills by its citizens. We have applied the framework in different contexts and issues throughout Europe (Bristol, Barcelona, Amsterdam among others) and collected valuable learning.

Who is this class for?

City authorities, Citizen groups, Open Hardware & Data communities, Corporations, startups, SMEs

What will you learn?

• Understanding the five levers of exponential growth based of the observation of 50 fast growing organizations and how do they apply to cities.
• A framework to design participatory urban issues problem-solving.
• Understanding how a city commons can foster problem-solving and  entrepreneurship.
• Real examples of application: learnings and outcomes.

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

Come prepare your OuiShare pitch, or gain skills needed to build up confidence and succeed in your next presentation.

Thousands of people flock to OuiShare Fest and similar events around the world, to not only learn and exchange ideas, but to also share and pitch their projects and concepts. BUT… will they and their pitches be remembered? It's no secret that Public Speaking is one of the most valuable skills one can acquire today. And like any skill, applying deliberate and systematic effort will yield significant growth, yet most people just rely on their untrained abilities and often pay the price.

This masterclass, with a public speaking coach with over 15 years of experience, will focus on building up your public speaking skillset to ensure greatest impact.

The international nature of our society has also made English the language that we often have to use when presenting information. If English is not your native language, you are likely to encounter additional stress that can get in the way of your success. We will work to help minimize external factors so you can focus on the content, which is the heart of your presentation.

Who is this class for?
Anyone who wants to learn how to become a better speaker and gain confidence when speaking in front of a group.

What will you learn?
The session will combine whole group exercises with individualized activities so that each participant receives the attention that they need. Participants will get:

• Body language awareness techniques to optimize power and delivery; 
• Support in constructing the type of speech that the participants need (persuasive, informative, entertaining, etc.); 
• Speaking tips catered to video or live audience delivery; 
• Support in English language clarity; 
• Help in mastering elements of audience psychology; 
• Practice of speech presentation; 
• Handouts that will help prepare participants for future presentations.

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APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable 2 systems, software programs, applications, connected things to interact in an automated way. These programmable interfaces are at the origin of successful empires like Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Netflix, Paypal, Twitter, Amazon Web Services and so many more, by enabling them to scale out of their buildings. This is the era of the extended enterprise. And cities can do the same, leveraging APIs to be bigger than their walls.

In this masterclass we will discover what APIs are and how to think, build and expose them to benefit from the B2B sharing economy and more. We will address some of the cultural, technical, community and business challenges that APIs raise.  
APIs make the world more connected, interoperable and are preparing the automation of the world. In a digital world, their design (open or not? free or not?) will determine the design of our future. But when automating, you need to integrate a lot of concepts to be sure to not automate mistakes. This is the challenge of the API economy.
Who is this class for?
This class is for all backgrounds and is made as much for technical as non-technical people. It is designed for entrepreneurs, designers, executives, innovation managers, people interested in organizational change, strategic designers and consultants.
What will you learn?
This masterclass has 2 parts, each of which consists of conceptual explanations, concrete examples and questions with the audience.
Part 1: APIs for a B2B sharing economy

• API fundamentals
• A cultural challenge “From project to product”
• APIs for a B2B sharing economy

Part 2: Automatisation of IT and Business with APIs
API design: Interface design concepts, building consistence
API styles: Concepts, Concrete examples (gRPC, REST, GraphQL, Messaging, etc)
API architecture: Patterns, Concrete examples (Gateway, ESB, etc)
API management: Discovery, Exposition security, Access level management, Throttling, Cache layer, Orchestration, Developer portal, Gouvernance
API lifecycle management: Strategy, Design, Policy and security, Document, Test , Build, Test , Deploy , Monitor, Manage, Promote, Scale , Version , Repeat
APIs are a contract:  API Terms of Service, API commons

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

How can city spaces become as creative as possible? How can sensorial network awareness be a tool for creating social cohesion and sustainable urban development? 

This Masterclass offers a lived experience of new ways of relating to each other and our environment in cities. It will show how creativity, relationality and trust are critical for creating sustainable urban environments, with practical experiments. 

How we can engage with the tension between normativity and creativity in public spaces? This is a central question raised by Charles Landry, author of "A Toolkit for Urban Innovators." Bodily network awareness is key for us to be able to tap into the innovative potential of complex systems such as cities. 

The Masterclass will be a mix of group work, movement exercises and discussion on generative relationality and sensing ourselves connected in a co-creative web. Workshop participants will become aware of the organic and sensorial relationship between themselves, others and their living spaces; and a ‘sense of security’ becomes something not technologically implied, but truly felt. They will also be able to find concrete applications of this in urban planning and their own fields of work.

Who is this class for?

Urban designers, policy-makers, mobility researchers, data scientists, citizen organisations, artists, and anyone who wants to have fun and learn more about smart, creative cities.

The workshop is open to everyone, irrespective of previous experience with body awareness movement.

What will you learn?

• Experience ‘city’ as creative network - of different people, materialities, intensities and technologies

• Gain or deepen your network awareness as more than smart technology

• Understand high relevance of citizens’ socio-cultural diversity and concepts of time to urban planning

• Be inspired for urban development in line with human bodies and sensorial awareness

 

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

Organizations today have to navigate in highly complex as well as rapidly changing environments. Not only is there a need for organizations to become more agile and adaptive to our rapidly changing society, there is also a call for them to be more human-centered and purpose driven. How can you combine participation with agility? How do you design lean communication based on transparency, decentralization and participation?

This Masterclass will show how communication is a critical ingredient for building an organizational culture of agility, agency and distributed problem solving. Building on key learnings from developing the emergent organization OuiShare, it will teach concrete communication practices and processes that have proven to have a high impact on organizational culture.

Key topics that will be explored are:

• New forms of collective decision making & strategy
• Agile work practices
• The power of syncing your offline and online communication
• Stigmergy: the importance of documentation and smart prioritization
• How to design learning and feedback loops to improve the quality of results as well as team development

Who is this class for?
Any public or private organization looking to transform their organizational culture.

What will you learn?
This class will provide you:

• A basic understanding of why communication is the foundation of shaping organizational culture and fostering emergence
• Insights into the communication infrastructure & practices that have enabled OuiShare to develop its distributed network of 5 000 members in 15 countries
• Experiences through exercises and simulations to provide a deeper understanding on how these insights can be applied and adapted to your own organization
• Methodologies, technical & cultural tools
• Access to resources, networks and guidelines to help you implement this in your own organization

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

Platforms have completely transformed the way we do business in the 21st century. Networked business models are allowing companies to become platforms on which their ecosystems and stakeholders can share value easily.  Thanks to technology as well as the falling cost and complexity of large scale coordination, platform businesses are achieving large returns and impact with comparatively low investments. How can we apply the lessons learned from the tremendous success of platform models to other organizations?

This Masterclass will show how organizations can go beyond the traditional industrial, bureaucratic modes of management and be designed as living systems -- systems that encourage improvement and learning through interactions and relationships. This will be done by applying the Platform Design Toolkit methodology and canvases.

Who is this class for?
Corporate intrapreneurs that want to conquer markets and design better organizations. Startup founders that aim at disrupting incumbents with exponential growth. Social entrepreneurs that aim to achieve scalable impact. Consultants that help clients design innovations, and anyone wanting to understand how platforms work.

What will you learn?
This class will provide:

• an understanding of what a platform organization is and the strategic pillars it consists of
• An assessment of the current situation of your organization and how platform thinking could help you respond to challenges
• A set of tools to (such as the platform design canvas) rapidly analyze an organization from the platform point of view and to design organizational changes that can be implemented as continuous experiments.
  
  

>> Learn more about the platform design toolkit

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Systems do change. At the School of System Change we’re setting off with a purpose: to explore creating the change we want. Our mission is to map the emerging field of system change for sustainability, and get (lots) more people and their organisations inspired, geared up and venturing out to implement transformational change. We invite you to come along.

This masterclass presents a taster session of the School of System Change, where we will be using a systems lens to the challenge you’re working on*. Together we will think in systems and design tactics which reach for wider impact. We will be collaborative, interconnected and learning through practice.

Who is this Masterclass for?
Whether you’re a total beginner or already thinking in systems, this masterclass will equip you to both think and act systemically.
This Masterclass is ideal for:

1. Change agents: You’re on a mission to create positive impact and you acknowledge the complexity of the challenge ahead. You want to build your capacity in system change, whether you’re a novice or a seasoned practitioner.
2. Representatives of organisations: You represent a business, foundation, charity or other organisation and you’re thinking about how to design and deliver a strategy that will have systemic impact and keep you future fit.

What will you learn?
Participants in this masterclass will:

1. Understand and apply the principles of systems thinking.
2. Experience and articulate the need for systems change.
3. Gain confidence in their own potential as a change agent.
4. Apply a systems lens to the change they are trying to bring about.

*Please note that this masterclass will require you to bring your challenge to the table, which can range from fighting ocean plastics to homelessness, to changing or influencing the strategy of the organisation you’re part of. It can be a side project or your full-time gig, anything goes! However, we’ll require a very short description of your challenge in advance of the masterclass.

Masterclasses can be booked individually here and are included in All-Access tickets.

Citizens all around the world are discovering the sharing (​collaborative)​ economy. Online platforms facilitate the exchange​ of goods and services at an ever increasing speed​, whilst t​raditional businesses are exploring this new phenomenon rapidly, too.​ With the advent of the sharing economy, the digital world has made its definitive step into the physical universe of cities. The time has come for city governments to respo​nd. ​

This masterclass will bring you up to speed on all the recent developments around cities and sharing economy. It's a two-sided story. On the one hand, this phenomenon offers opportunities for more social, sustainable and economically resilient cities. On the other hand, there are several challenges to address, like consumer and worker protection, market fairness and regulation. Every city is different so you will be served and challenged to think through an array of approaches.
You will learn about pioneering cities such as Amsterdam and Seoul, who have been developing the local sharing economy for years, as well as other cities that have started to act or react to the many aspects of the sharing economy.

Who is it for?
The masterclass is for city leaders and anyone with a specific interest in the sharing economy at the city level.

What will you learn?
Participants will get the chance to work on their specific challenges, for example issues around (un)fair playing fields, zoneing, insurance and taxes. We will also work on how the sharing economy can bring social cohesion, environmental sustainability and economic resilience to cities.
After the masterclass you will:

• have a better understanding of how to make the most out of the sharing (collaborative) economy in your city, enriching the lives of your citizens
• be able to design potential pilot projects to grasp opportunities and develop a vision of what role the sharing economy can play in your city.

This class is being offered in French and English. 

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How do you know whether members of a team are working towards a shared objective? Working together is one of the biggest challenges for any company. Individual knowledge, skills and expertise are not that difficult to find, but enabling your team to work collaboratively is much more difficult.

This Masterclass will teach participants a method called co-construction, which makes it easy for teams to develop a shared objective and ensure that each team member is working on the same project.

Who is this class for?
This class is designed for anyone who needs to work with others! From freelancers that frequently collaborate with other teams, to teams leaders and team members. 

This session is designed for both people that come with their whole team, as well as individuals. You do not need to join with your team members to make the most of this class. 

What will you learn?
In this session, you will:

• Learn what constitutes a common objective and how it can be developed collectively
• experiment with the co-construction method with other participants
• apply the co-construction method to their own organisation
• learn and apply active listening and empathy

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FRANCAIS

Comment savez-vous si les membres d'une équipe concourent au même objectif? Travailler ensemble est l'un des plus grands défis pour toute entreprise. Les connaissances, les compétences et l'expertise individuelles ne sont pas si difficiles à trouver, mais faire en sorte que votre équipe travailler de manière collaborative est beaucoup plus difficile.

Cette Masterclass aborde une méthode de co-construction, ce qui facilite le développement d’un objectif commun pour les équipes d'un objectif partagé et s'assure que chacun travaille sur le même projet.

A qui s’adresse cette Masterclass?
Cette Masterclasse s’adresse à tous ceux qui ont besoin de travailler avec d'autres! Des freelances, aux managers et aux membres d'équipe.

Cette session est conçue pour les personnes qui viennent avec leur équipe, ainsi que les individus. Vous n'avez pas besoin de vous joindre aux membres de votre équipe pour tirer le meilleur parti de cette classe. 

Qu'est-ce que vous allez apprendre?
Dans cette session, vous allez:

• Apprendre ce qui constitue un objectif commun et comment il peut être développé collectivement
• Expérimenter la méthode de co-construction avec d'autres participant
• Être capable d'appliquer la méthode de co-construction à leur propre organisationUtiliser l’écoute active et l'empathie