10th TCI Annual Global Conference, Portland 2007. An intensive and enriching week comes to an end
Another conference comes to its end and again it was a great opportunity to meet old friends, get new connection and learn from each other. As always there will be positive and negative feedback from the participants, but sure we will remember this as a special conference.
Where to start? We had very good feedback so far for the cluster tours, especially the Boing tour, the wine tour and some of the rural tours where quite popular - thanks to Tricia for pulling them together!
The Academic Summit was very successful this year - many good comments on the content and procedures! The presentations will be uploaded over the coming days, so also those who missed this part will be able to enjoy the new findings on sustainability! Sheila Martin was the overall responsible and did a great job.
The conference itself had many new insights and allowed several important steps forward - just mentioning the session "from aid to investment" or the session on "competitiveness in the islamic world". It was difficult to choose among breakouts like "userdriven innovation", "long term cluster development", "bridging the digital divide" and many others.
Or the rememorable panel with Mike Enright, Prof. Subira and Stuart Rosenfeld on the Future of Competitiveness.
Amy Keiter and Cheryl Vandermore made all these presentations and discussions possible!
During the presentation Paula Hansen made graphics of the sessions- they will soon also be posted on the website.
You can check out the blog of the conference, for some impressions on the conference with pictures, the presentations and the keynote speakers: http://blog.clusters2007.com/
And we will never forget the impressive Gala Dinner on Thursday evening where Amy and Tricia showed that they know how to arrange a party in Portland.
You will be able to download the presentations on the website in the Portland section, once you have logged in with your username and passwords. The presentations are available for TCI members only. If you have not received your password yet, please contact TCI Secretariat at info@tci-network.org. If your membership has expired and you wish to see the presentation, please renew your membership online.
The Plenaries can be accessed here: Plenary Presentations at Portland Conference 2007
For the presentations in the breakouts, follow the link for the selected stream:
Innovation
Rural Clusters
Sustainability
Global Promise
Cluster Implementation
Academic Summit and Cluster 101 Course
For more pictures go to innovation journalism at flickr.com.
Some initiatives that were carried out in Portland 2007:
- Exploring Cluster Dynamics International Study
This international study grew from the TCI 2007 Annual Conference in Portland-USA, and shows the benefit of cluster practitioners getting together, agreeing to work together and moving knowledge of clusters forward.
- TCI Latin American Meeting in Portland
32 TCI Latin American members met in Portland-Oregon on October 10, as they were in the city to participate in the 10th Annual Conference of TCI. El pasado 10 de Octubre, 32 socios latinoamericanos de TCI se reunieron en Portland-Oregon aprovechando su presencia en la conferencia anual del TCI.
- Evaluation Greenbook in Stuttgart
Klaus Haasis and the team from MFG in Stuttgart received us and a group of TCI members working in the field of evaluation in their facilities on February 15 and 16 to discuss the next steps for the greenbook on evaluation, which will be presented at the annual conference in Portland this year.
