The Impactory

Are you a new member and you would like to know how to best use the Impactory for your entrepreneurial purposes or your projects? Are you a more experienced member and you would like to meet the new blood as well as share your experience as being part of the Impactory’s community?

Then join us on Monday evening for a meetup and get all your questions answered!

This event will be run on a regular basis and aim to provide all necessary information to new members :

• How does the Impactory work : all you always wanted to know and ask !
• How to make the most of your membership ?
• Which are the different activites and the networking opprtunities offered at The Impactory?
• How can you get (more) involved within the Impactory community and make the difference ?
• How can you meet and connect with other members members and collaborate on projects?
• How to create new opportunities for the community and yourself ?

Prototyping an application can provide entrepreneurs with great benefits. It gives him or her the possibiliy of receiving valuable early feedback from people, such as investors, associates or employees, before actually spending time and money trying to implement a product. Perhaps it is the first step towards outsourcing the development of an idea to developers, if the entrepreneur cannot afford hiring full-time developers. Protyping also allows the software engineers to do some initial project estimates in terms of the time, money and other resources required to build the application.

There are several solutions currently available to facilitate prototyping, other than using a pencil and a piece of paper.

• In this workshop we will take a look at some of the existing solutions, such us Proto.io and Balsamiq Mockups,
• and we will share tips on how to make the prototyping procedure efficient

This workshop falls under the following categories of Impactory Curriculum

IT: Price, Design, Website Creation
Project Management & Innovation: Lean startup, Design Thinking

This workshop is run by Dimitris, Impactory member. http://www.papadi.gr

We’re very excited to offer a workshop with Sylvain Cottong who has years of experience in these subjects and giving workshops about them. Normally a half-day workshop with him costs far more than the pricing we set jointly with Sylvain.

In the first phase we were handing over the power to you here and use sort of crowdfunding approach. The trend is clear one of the three subjects (Innovation Management) did not generate that much interest. Now we are down to Design Thinking or Inbound Marketing for an evening slot.

Here’s how it works:

• You pick the most interesting workshop(s) and register for that at the bottom of this page.
• We close registration when one of the workshops has 15 registrants (early registration is recommended!) or 21 June, whatever comes first.
• As soon as the crowd has spoken and made the choice, we will confirm which workshop is given. Or maybe we should say workshops. If we get one workshop filled for the morning slot we can run a second in the evening slot, or vice versa.
• We will send you an invoice for the workshop as soon as we know which workshop wins, so please treat your registration as binding.

Now it’s up to you, read the descriptions below and pick the one that wakes your interest.

Design thinking & Service design

What is design thinking ? How is design thinking used today to guide innovation processes in business and in public services as well as social innovation ?

Service design as a discipline is an application of design thinking. The workshop will also explain what service design is, what the tools and methods are and give some real world examples. The workshop will also address the related concepts of service innovation, service-dominant logic in marketing as well as “experience is the new product”.

Inbound marketing

What is the difference between outbound marketing and inbound marketing and why is the latter so important nowadays ? What are the constituents of an inbound marketing strategy (Content, Social Media, SEO) ? How to organize your inbound marketing activities so that you can handle them ? Which tools to use ? What is the relation of inbound marketing and new trends like marketing automation ?

The workshop will give an overview of the concepts of inbound marketing and shows some real world examples.

About Sylvain

Throughout his career, Sylvain, who is economist by education, has worked at the crossroads of economics, society, culture & technology. As an early Internet evangelist, he has been advising governments & companies on strategies for the networked society.

After having spent some time in the User Experience Design community, he then started to be involved and interested in strategic planning, innovation management, service design & design thinking, social & public sector innovation, social technologies, intellectual capital and the future of work. He’s an occasional speaker at international conferences on these subjects.

Sylvain (http://about.me/sylvaincottong) currently lives and works in Luxembourg (www.strategybuilders.eu & www.projetspublics.lu).

You find him on Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvaincottong and on Twitter as http://twitter.com/sly

He is also a member of the Internet of Things Council (http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/),  the New Club of Paris (http://www.new-club-of-paris.org/) and vice-president of LuxIC (www.luxic.lu), the Luxembourg Society for Intellectual Capital.

Members entrance fee: 55 EUR

A lightning talk event is a format where a short presentation is given on a certain topic followed by networking and discussions.

For the first edition of this event we are honoured to welcome David Goldrake, who is going to explore the topic of designing your own future: “You don’t have to take life the way it comes to you. You can design your future the way you want it. This is your life! A compelling future is not something we experience, it’s something we create. So, what is it going to be? You decide!”

The purpose of David Goldrake’s talk is not to provide a list of what should be done, but to stir up some exciting possibilities of what could be done.

About the concept: This monthly event is open to suggestions from members. If you would like to talk yourself at the next event or to suggest a topic contact us. You can bring something to drink or some snacks or provide us a small contribution for the drinks we provide.

Pricing: 

With drinks and / or snacks: free (members), 5 EUR (non-members)

Without drinks or snacks: 5 EUR (members), 10 EUR (non-members)

Community Lunch

Every first Friday of the month, we share a table, food and conversations. This month we will do it exceptionnally on Thursday because another event is scheduled on Friday during lunch time.

Bring one ingredient or a small dish to share with everyone and have good talks with great people! The salad lunch is an informal way to get together and get to know each other better. It’s also a fun metaphor of collaboration: each ingredient brought by each person tastes better when mixed up together.

We’re very excited to offer a workshop in collaboration with FAST, a leading training institution in Luxembourg.

FAST has over 13 years of experience in providing high value training and giving workshops. Normally a 3 hour intensive hands-on workshop with FAST like those attached costs far more than the pricing we set jointly with Fast and its dynamic Co-Founder and Director, Rachel Treece, Impactory Member (and recently nominated Inspiring Woman of the Year 2012).

We’re handing over the power to you here and use sort of crowdfunding approach (and a very discounted GROUPON-style price). You pick which of the three workshops will be given on the NEW DATE OF 05/07/2013 (h12-14). In order to be able to go ahead with the workshop and its unprecedently low price we need a minimum of 12 people.

Description of the 3 workshops

Trainer profile

Here’s how it works:

• You pick the most interesting workshop(s) and register for that at the bottom of this page.

We will send you an invoice for the workshop as soon as we know which workshop can reach the most audience, so please treat your registration as binding.

Now it’s up to you, read the description attached, the CV of the Trainer, and choose the one that wakes your interest.

As Rachel Treece says (here: http://youtu.be/JR3hDwJDKYk), quoting acclaimed Harry Potter’s series writer J.K.Rowlings:

“it’s our choices that really show us who we truly are, so much more than our abilities”

Members entrance fee: 50 EUR

Vincent Hieff, Chambre de Commerce and Luxembourg Business Angel Network

EN

Espace Entreprises is dedicated to all those who are seeking support in their administrative procedures when creating and developing a business.

They also provide consulting in diverse areas like public financial support, legal rights of establishment, labor law, social insurance law, competition law, corporate law, direct and indirect tax. You can schedule an individual meeting or drop by without appointment.

Take this great opportunity to get guidance and help from an expert to create your dream. Vincent is an entrepreneur at heart and he is a wealth of information you can rely on.

Subscribe for this event here

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L’Espace Entreprises est un guichet unique à l’attention de tous ceux qui cherchent de l’aide dans les procédures administratives auxquelles ils se voient confrontés dans le cadre de la création et du développement d’une entreprise.

L’Espace Entreprises offre également des services de conseil gratuits en matière de droit d’établissement, d’aides et de financements publics, droit du travail individuel, droit des assurances sociales, droit de la concurrence, droit des sociétés et du commerce, ainsi que de fiscalité directe et indirecte. Vous pouvez venir sur place.