The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Connexa—an AI assistant for remembering, organizing, and acting on professional relationships. Connexa turns LinkedIn connections (and not just LinkedIn) into a searchable memory by letting you add notes and context at the moment you meet someone—and later find the right person using an AI assistant. Here is a 1 min demo.
Ever stared at a blank page, feeling the weight of writer's block like an impenetrable wall? What if there was a blueprint to break through it, turning ordinary words into spellbinding stories that captivate readers?
Join Michael Kelly for an interactive session using Auratext, a revolutionary writing system derived from reverse-engineering 20 books from authors who have published over 4.25 billion best-selling books. Drawing from mathematical patterns in works by masters like Hemingway and Grisham, you'll explore 10 proven algorithms—from time references synced to the human attention span (every 24 words/8 seconds) to cliffhangers that build unbreakable anticipation. This isn't theory; it's a hands-on dive into applying these "construction blueprints" to your own writing, whether for emails, essays, novels, or business pitches.
Designed for writers, entrepreneurs, scientists, students, and innovators, this workshop equips you with practical tools to democratize great writing, making it accessible beyond the "lucky few." Walk away with frameworks to craft narratives that grab attention, spark imagination, and keep readers hooked.
Who should attend: Anyone facing writer's block or seeking to elevate their communication—founders pitching ideas, professionals crafting reports, or aspiring authors building worlds.
What happens when you turn off practicality, loosen the rules, and give yourself permission to invent something totally unnecessary—or wildly world-changing?
In this fast-paced, playful, and thought-expanding session, participants will imagine, develop, and “launch” a conceptual, emergent, or even completely absurd product in just 40 minutes. This is not about building something useful (though it might become useful). It’s about stretching how you think, create, and imagine possible futures.
Through a series of guided prompts, you’ll move through two core phases: Create and Construct. Using words and images to bring your idea to life. You’ll invent what the product is, what it does, why it exists, and what people might one day say about it. Hats that cook your food? Global clean water solutions? Something even stranger? All possibilities are in play.
Your idea must be written or typed to count. Articulation is part of the challenge. Along the way, you’ll be encouraged to push past norms, modify assumptions, and either ground your idea just enough to glimpse a real possibility or lean fully into the absurd and see what emerges there.
A small number of standout ideas may be invited to briefly share their imagined product and future story, with a light, conversational interview to explore how the idea took shape.
This session offers a repeatable creative approach you can apply to real products, speculative design, storytelling, or future-thinking by starting with imagination, not constraints.
Come prepared to invent, suppose, elaborate, and maybe surprise yourself.
The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Connexa—an AI assistant for remembering, organizing, and acting on professional relationships. Connexa turns LinkedIn connections (and not just LinkedIn) into a searchable memory by letting you add notes and context at the moment you meet someone—and later find the right person using an AI assistant. Here is a 1 min demo.
Ever stared at a blank page, feeling the weight of writer's block like an impenetrable wall? What if there was a blueprint to break through it, turning ordinary words into spellbinding stories that captivate readers?
Join Michael Kelly for an interactive session using Auratext, a revolutionary writing system derived from reverse-engineering 20 books from authors who have published over 4.25 billion best-selling books. Drawing from mathematical patterns in works by masters like Hemingway and Grisham, you'll explore 10 proven algorithms—from time references synced to the human attention span (every 24 words/8 seconds) to cliffhangers that build unbreakable anticipation. This isn't theory; it's a hands-on dive into applying these "construction blueprints" to your own writing, whether for emails, essays, novels, or business pitches.
Designed for writers, entrepreneurs, scientists, students, and innovators, this workshop equips you with practical tools to democratize great writing, making it accessible beyond the "lucky few." Walk away with frameworks to craft narratives that grab attention, spark imagination, and keep readers hooked.
Who should attend: Anyone facing writer's block or seeking to elevate their communication—founders pitching ideas, professionals crafting reports, or aspiring authors building worlds.
What happens when you turn off practicality, loosen the rules, and give yourself permission to invent something totally unnecessary—or wildly world-changing?
In this fast-paced, playful, and thought-expanding session, participants will imagine, develop, and “launch” a conceptual, emergent, or even completely absurd product in just 40 minutes. This is not about building something useful (though it might become useful). It’s about stretching how you think, create, and imagine possible futures.
Through a series of guided prompts, you’ll move through two core phases: Create and Construct. Using words and images to bring your idea to life. You’ll invent what the product is, what it does, why it exists, and what people might one day say about it. Hats that cook your food? Global clean water solutions? Something even stranger? All possibilities are in play.
Your idea must be written or typed to count. Articulation is part of the challenge. Along the way, you’ll be encouraged to push past norms, modify assumptions, and either ground your idea just enough to glimpse a real possibility or lean fully into the absurd and see what emerges there.
A small number of standout ideas may be invited to briefly share their imagined product and future story, with a light, conversational interview to explore how the idea took shape.
This session offers a repeatable creative approach you can apply to real products, speculative design, storytelling, or future-thinking by starting with imagination, not constraints.
Come prepared to invent, suppose, elaborate, and maybe surprise yourself.