WAIC 2012 Webcasts

Webcasts Wednesday 25th april

Introduction on how to use the Webcast player

Plenary Opening and Welcome

Opening keynote: Towards an ‘economy’ of connecting strengths: scaling-up the generative power of AI

Plenary Dialogue & Connecting: Making Meaning of the Conference Theme

Plenary session: ‘This is not a chicken’: artist Koen Vanmechelen develops his perspective on diversity and identity

Overview day 2 and invitation to welcome reception

Webcasts Thursday 26th april

Plenary Session 1 with breakthrough cases on the new economy from the perspective of business and entrepreneurship

Plenary Session 2: Prof. Dr. Kenneth Gergen and Prof. Dr. Danielle Zandee in a dialogue about newest insights from social constructionism and AI ‘Genomes of Meaning and the making of Worlds’

Plenary Session 3: Dr. Diana Whitney takes us on a global journey on ‘Appreciative Leadership at the Nexus of Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Psychology and the Strengths Movement’

Webcasts Friday 27th april

Plenary Session 4 Prof. Dr. Klaas van Egmond argues that sustainabillty is synonimous with human dignity ‘Societal Appreciative Inquiry: re-thinking human Dignity and Sustainability for re-inventing Society’

Plenary Session 5: Dr. Anastasia Bukashe and Dr. Ilma Barros join their forces to share extraordinary cases of AI in nation building in South-Africa & regional development by including business in Brasil.

Webcasts Saturday 28th april

Plenary Session 6: Prof. Dr. Ronald Fry and Prof. Dr. Gervase Bushe take the stage together to talk about the core of AI as theory and practice of change ‘Generative Engagement: Going beyond the Positive for Transformational Change’

Plenary session 7: Leo Bormans, author of the World Book of Happiness ‘How to megaphone positive change?’

Closing ceremony: Playing For Change (Part 1), Connecting the world through music’

Closing Remarks Reflection on 2012 WAIC and expressing hopes for the Future.

Closing ceremony: Playing For Change (Part 2), Connecting the world through music’