{"id":298,"date":"2010-11-22T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T02:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T02:18:05","slug":"creating-conversations-that-spark-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Creating conversations that spark innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you put a chef, CEOs, architects, entrepreneurs, photographers, an Everest guide, a philosopher, scientists and a lightening sculptor in a room along with thirty other interesting people in a bar?\u00a0 A damn good night of fascinating conversation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the recipe for BASE &#8211; an event I hosted last week. It&#8217;s an acronym for business, arts, science and exploration.\u00a0 As you can see from the list I covered off all those areas and only invited people that had done interesting things. The result was brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>People made unexpected connections, ideas flew and conversations were animated. Perfect conditions for sparking innovation. Artists talked to CEOs, musicians chatted to explorers, and scientists waxed lyrical with architects.<\/p>\n<p>The mood of the evening was summed up by Doug Wingfield who has his head painted to reveal exactly what was on his mind. In case you&#8217;re wondering about the word in blue next to the loveheart, according to Doug &#8220;REEB&#8221; is a &#8220;beer going down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dougs-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299 aligncenter\" title=\"Doug's head\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dougs-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dougs-head.jpg 422w, http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dougs-head-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you put a chef, CEOs, architects, entrepreneurs, photographers, an Everest guide, a philosopher, scientists and a lightening sculptor in a room along with thirty other interesting people in a bar?\u00a0 A damn good night of fascinating conversation. That&#8217;s the recipe for BASE &#8211; an event I hosted last week. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}