4. SerendipityShot ?
Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise": specifically, the accident
of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. This is how
most significant innovations emerge. Serendipity is not random, you can learn to
domesticate it.
How can you leverage serendipity for your company ? What kind of environment,
organization and culture will make happy accidents and pleasant surprises happen ?
How do successful organizations deal with it ? This is what you will learn.
Serendipity is not new but is becoming a crucial variable in our open world. During
these two days you will have the chance to experience total serendipity working at
Mutinerie, a leading coworking space and genuine serendipity accelerator. You will
meet with inspiring entrepreneurs and have top academics and consultants working
with you through practical examples and theoretical analysis.
We hope you will come back to the office a little bit changed.
6. Program
Thursday 23
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome breakfast
09.30 – 10.30 Presentation of Mutinerie
10.30 – 13.00 Free work time
13.00 – 14.00 Face to face lunch with entrepreneurs
14.00 – 16.00 Free work time
16.00 – 18.00 Leverage Serendipity in your organization (Louis-David Benyayer, Without model)
18.00 – 21.00 Free work time
Friday 24
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome breakfast
09.30 – 13.00 Free work time
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch with the Serendipity team
14.00 - 16.00 Creative clash : Bohemia vs Business (Sebastian Olma & Yulia Kryazheva,
Serendipity Lab)
16.00 – 18.00 Free work time
18.00 – 19.30 Press conference
19.30 – 21.00 Afterparty
8. Mutinerie
Three brothers and a playground friend who’ve sailed the seven seas and decided, one
day of September 2010, to start Mutinerie – an emblematic Parisian coworking space that
aims to provide independent workers and entrepreneurs with a place to work, meet, and
exchange ideas.
Coworking space
Halfway between home, office and cafe, a coworking space is a place of work and
exchange that attracts those who have chosen independence, flexibility and adventure in
their professional lives. Entrepreneur, developer, web designer, consultant, journalist,
blogger, artist, architect, researcher, student ... there are coworkers of all kinds, they
share a satiety of working from home, the desire to meet new people and the need of
freedom.
Exploring new way of working and value creation
Mutinerie evolves in an enthusiastic, creative and challenging ecosystem at the turn of
new trends ( P2P, social entrepreneurship, the collaboration economy, open source,
open innovation, do it yourself).
10. Friday 24 , 14h00
Creative clash: Bohemia vs Business (english speaking workshop)
An intensive two hours brainstorm session with digital bohemians and business
people, moving deep into a constructive clash of Digital Bohemian vs Business Men.
The goal is to identify the forces that drive each side and see how they can eventually
work together/profit from each other - and thus develop prototypes of platforms on
which they can interlink. Inspiration, challenges and examples of serendipity from
these two days at Mutinerie will provide us the necessary reality check and create a
ground for discussion.
Sebastian Olma
PhD, an international scholar and expert working at the interface
between creativity and business. He was trained at a philosopher
and organizational economist in Germany, New York, London. His
Amsterdam based company The Think Tank connects
governments, companies and organizations to the innovative
potential of social networks. With Yulia Kryazheva, design
thinking expert, he has founded Serendipity Lab, supporting
companies and public organizations to transform themselves into
Serendipity Machines.
11. Thursday 23 , 16h00
Leverage Serendipity in your organization
Some companies and teams perform particularly well when it comes to foster
unexpected encounters, others don’t. What lessons can we learn from both:
• Why entering those practices for which (apparently) no ROI can be calculated?
• How does it work in practice?
• What are the main results achieved through these initiatives?
Through an analysis of a series of cases from large and small organizations, the
workshop will be focused first on assessing the participants’ organization ability to
leverage serendipity and second on identifying the relevant practices to experiment.
Louis-David Benyayer
Passionate about innovation, strategy, business models and
entrepreneurship, Louis-David began with consultancy. Then he
created several companies and he participated in recovering a
company in liquidation. Graduated from ESCP Europe, he has a
PhD in strategy, teaches at various Business Schools and
participates in several research projects. He has co-founded
Without Model whose mission is to contribute in spreading open,
collaborative and responsible business models.
12. Thursday 23, 13h00 – 14h00
You will enjoy face to face lunches with
inspiring entrepreneurs working on
projects related to your company
business. A great chance to have a
casual and genuine talk about
innovation, value creation and new
business models. An exchange
nurturing both parties and opening
doors…
Lunch
withentrepreneurs
13. Masha Kosobokova, Mutinerie - project manager
masha@mutinerie.org
06 63 37 32 99
Info
Antoine van den Broek, Mutinerie - cofounder
antoine@mutinerie.org
06 58 16 18 89
29 rue de Meaux - 75019 PARIS
www.mutinerie.org
twitter.com/MutinerieCrew
Participation 750€HT
* two breakfasts, two lunchs and one coctail included
