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If you work in a place where magic happens, O2, Wired UK, and FourSquare have teamed up to create a UK Innovation badge. We will be crowd sourcing innovation locations across the UK. If you check into one of these you will unlock the UK Innovation badge.
The badge launches at next weeks Wired 2011 Conference, with the nationwide launch happening shortly afterwards.
Nominate your innovation location by completing the entry form on the Wired UK Facebook page.
VIDEO: O2 UK CTO speaking @ Planet of the Apps 2010
Just to draw your attention to a recent talk delivered by Derek McManus, CTO of O2 UK at the 'Planet of the Apps' conference in London (note the link goes to the 2011 show site, I can't seem to find any archive content from the recent event, which is a shame)
Derek explores the approach Telefonica and O2 are taking to work more collaboratively with the developer community in this edit of the full talk.
Derek McManus, Planet of the Apps, November 2010 from O2 Litmus on Vimeo.
To hear more from Derek, check out this recent Podcast he recorded with us, exploring the challenges of optimising mobile apps for the mobile network environment.
"Official" O2 Innovation Day Video
A little late, but here is the video created by the O2 team capturing the essence of the day:Also thanks for all the interest in the O2 Litmus Roadmapping event. We sold out the initial 40 tickets, but have just added another 20, so get 'em while they are hot ;-)
O2 Innovation Day
I was hoping to write this up sooner, but just a few thoughts on the recent O2 Innovation Day that was held at the rather nice Matter Club inside The O2 complex in London on the 16th March 2009.This was the second year in a row that my team had organised the Innovation Day.The idea behind the day is to get O2 people out of their day to day working environment. Bring in leading companies that are shaping the agenda of ours and adjacent industries, share knowledge, make connections and stimulate the creative juices.We learnt a lot from last year's event, and judging from the feedback I have seen I think we successfully applied a lot of the learning's. We brutally chopped the Powerpoint, we focused on panel debate and interactivity, and most importantly we opened up.This year saw a number of companies invited in to demo and network with O2's senior leadership team. O2 Litmus played its role, with two competition winners (Ribot and Fring) taking their place alongside more established O2 partners like Microsoft & Nokia. I hope this provided some interesting conversation and business development opportunities.You can read the thoughts of Antony from Ribot here.You can also watch a couple of Antony's video's:
O2 Innovation Day - morning hello part 1 from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 business strategy innovation from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton introduces O2 Litmus from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton on O2 Litmus part II from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton on O2 Litmus part III from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 Innovation Day - Sesson 1, Mobile application and services from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 Innovation day - session 1, Mobile application and services part 2 from ribot on Vimeo.Hopefully events like this reinforce that O2 Litmus is helping to drive cultural change inside an Operator like O2, and shows we are willing to air our dirty laundry, wrestling with key challenges in an open and collaborative way.It also tangibly demonstrates we don't know all the answers, but by using vehicles like O2 Litmus we are genuinely looking to the market and our customers to help shape the future.
O2 Innovation Day - morning hello part 1 from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 business strategy innovation from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton introduces O2 Litmus from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton on O2 Litmus part II from ribot on Vimeo.
James Parton on O2 Litmus part III from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 Innovation Day - Sesson 1, Mobile application and services from ribot on Vimeo.
O2 Innovation day - session 1, Mobile application and services part 2 from ribot on Vimeo.Hopefully events like this reinforce that O2 Litmus is helping to drive cultural change inside an Operator like O2, and shows we are willing to air our dirty laundry, wrestling with key challenges in an open and collaborative way.It also tangibly demonstrates we don't know all the answers, but by using vehicles like O2 Litmus we are genuinely looking to the market and our customers to help shape the future.
