Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) is sponsoring one journalist to go to PopTech: Hybrid this October 22-24 in Camden, Maine. SJN wants you to use your experience at the conference to report on the ideas or models that you find most promising; how people are talking about seemingly stale issues differently; how people are trying to solve complex problems with innovative new thinking; advances in different fields; and whatever moves you. The Huffington Post will publish these posts in What’s Working, their new vertical aimed at highlighting responses to social problems.
PopTech brings together 600 entrepreneurs, designers, technologists and social innovators for three days of stage presentations, workshops, happy hours, and parties. Hosted by John Maeda, PopTech: Hybrid will explore new ideas, projects, and movements that are created when disciplinary boundaries fall by the wayside. In what ways can we use hybridity to address complex social, business, and global problems? Today’s critical issues and potential areas of discovery are too big to handle with just one or the other. Instead, we need thoughtful and at times, unexpected combinations. Progress requires a new kind of people and approach: the ‘slash generation.
Visit here to learn more and apply. Deadline is August 28, 5:00pmET. Contact comm@poptech.org with any questions.
