by Gigi Johnson | Mar 9, 2023
EPIC: The Event
The 2023 EPIC International Summit is next month! Join us in Santa Barbara, CA on April 27-29 to DISCONNECT from devices, DISRUPT the status quo and DISCOVER how to become a stronger creative leader in your field. Learn from some of the most inspiring thought leaders, educators, executives, entrepreneurs, and artists from around the globe through a program that is dynamic and engaging. Leave with innovative and application-based tools, strategies, and insights to effectively solve complex challenges in your professional and personal life.
Our Session: April 29, 2023 – Part of main ticket
Futuring – Rethinking Place
This is a hands-on workshop to rethink the role of space and place in your work and clients’ work. In our virtual and in-person era, Pandemic recovery has challenged the questions of where we work, live, perform, collaborate, etc. We’re going to use concepts from game design and experience design to rethink what role place and space can make in future business arenas and how challenging those assumptions can offer new opportunities and combinations.
Space is limited.
by Gigi Johnson | Nov 2, 2022
IndieWeek 2022: Online, Nov. 8-12
Nov. 8, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Eastern Time
BE PRESENT EVERYWHERE – International export connections from bookers, buyers, festivals and conferences. These are the people you want to meet to open the door to international exports // presented byY” LyricFind, CAB
This session is NOT A TYPICAL PANEL. International delegates of the music community introduce themselves while the audience is able to DM and share contact information. Speakers are a cross-section of committed music executives in all areas of business to facilitate international trade and development including festival bookers and programmers, managers, labels, producers and more.
by Gigi Johnson | Aug 4, 2022
Going to AOM – remote or in Seattle — August 2022?
Translating Theory into Practice: Organizations and the Future of Work (session 411)
Session: We’ll be collaborating on a hybrid interactive session for 2 hours. You must be an AOM member for the year and registered to the conference to attend.
Session Links and World Cafe Table Links here
Background: The framing of the “future of work” has grown in visibility and scope over the past few years. Researchers have been positing deep change impacts from the data- and machine-enmeshed transformations in work for many years (Keynes, 1930; Zuboff, 1988; Adler, 1992; Rifkin, 1995; Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2012; Susskind & Susskind, 2015; Hodgson, 2016; Frey & Osborne, 2017, Daugherty & Wilson, 2018; Hirschi, 2018, Tschang & Albiral, 2019; Raisch & Karkowski, 2020; Schulte et al, 2020). Large consulting organizations have taken up the challenge, building full practice and research areas (PWC, 2014; Illanes et al, 2018; Schwartz et al, 2019). This PDW will be held as a hybrid session. It will be a collaboration between scholars and practitioners at both the in-person and virtual versions of the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference for 2022. We will examine the accelerating changes impacting three frames of work – the work, the workplace, and the people/systems — from different points-of-view. Using the World Cafe framework, participants will explore emergent change, frictions, and our own organizations. During this era of unprecedented instability, our core question will be how organizations and leaders can thrive in this changed landscape by embracing the future of work through new insights and capabilities.
by Gigi Johnson | Feb 23, 2022
Dr. Gigi Johnson was the virtual plenary speaker at Westcliff University’s 6th Annual SyBER Symposium: “Staying Ahead of the Curve: Innovation in Action.” This event was open to Westcliff students, alumni and faculty.
Changing ecosystems of local and creative work in this Pandemic era and beyond
Within days in 2020, we moved our creative and professional works “home” and exploded our sense of place and work. How have we Reimagined Place? How can we change our local creative work systems and how are they changing as the nature of “place” is being rethought?
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by Gigi Johnson | Feb 23, 2022
Dr. Gigi Johnson opened the March 17 Virtual Workshop for the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
Video: https://www.fnlm.org/post-pandemic-libraries-the-upcoming-era-of-change-march-17-2022-access/
Post-Pandemic Libraries: The Upcoming Era of Change
The COVID-19 global pandemic instantly reshaped how libraries function—from services to workflows, from technologies to communications. As librarians continue to adjust to these sudden changes, there remains the question of to what degree these changes will stick, especially as the world’s population encounters future global shifts. Numerous lessons were learned during this pandemic, but which ones will shape and improve the library profession? How will the social artifacts of our current pandemic become embedded in our organizations, creating a “new normal” as well as pathways for new models of work? How have the information needs and behaviors of our user communities informed our libraries’ adaptations during the pandemic, and how will we continue to meet their diverse needs in the long term? The keynote speakers and panelists will share and discuss how libraries, particularly in the medical and health sciences fields, can leverage change to create more agile, informed, and impactful libraries and librarians and to forge a more exciting and advanced future for librarianship. Join us as we shape tomorrow’s libraries.
Sponsored by: Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Elsevier, and Oxford PharmaGenesis
SCHEDULE – All Times EST
- 10:00 -10:10 AM
Welcome and Introduction: Glen Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Friends of the National Library of Medicine - 10:15 – 11:00 AM
Opening Keynote, Gigi Johnson, Maremel Institute - 11:05 – 11:50 AM
Taking Action on COVID Lessons Learned
Moderator: Melissa DeSantis, Chair, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
Sandra Franklin, Emory University
Kelvin Watson, Las Vegas-Clark County Public Library District
Beth Whipple, Indiana University, Bart Ragon, University of Virginia, and Melissa Rethlefsen, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Patricia Devine, University of Washington - 11:55 AM – 12:30 PM
Meal Break - 12:30 – 1:15 PM
Future of Space
Moderator: Anne Seymour, Johns Hopkins University
Dianne Babski, National Library of Medicine
Dan Wilson, University of Virginia
Tim Tripp, University Health Network
Catherine Soehner, University of Utah - 1:20 – 2:05 PM
Organizational Design/Development
Moderator: Tara Landry – President, Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada
David Lankes, University of Texas, Austin
Chris Shaffer, University of California, San Francisco
Elaine Westbrooks, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bridgit McCafferty and Lisa Hopkins, Texas A&M University-Central Texas - 2:05 – 2:20 PM
Break - 2:20 – 3:05 PM
Bold Librarianship/Bold Library Leadership
Maureen Sullivan, Maureen Sullivan Associates
Hannah Rutledge, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Cain, Columbia University
LaMoya Burks, Texarkana College - 3:05 – 3:15 PM
Wrap-up
Shannon Jones, Medical University of South Carolina
Hannah Rutledge, University of Pennsylvania
by Gigi Johnson | Apr 21, 2021
We have joined UCLA Alpert, CU Denver, and many other organizations for a Virtual Gathering/Conference on April 23/24 and pilot session April 17. Website: AmplifyMusic.org
Free Registration Link (Eventbrite): https://amplifymusic2020.eventbrite.com
Event Mission: A gathering of lived experiences and workable ideas
This event brings together diverse music leaders and creators online to learn and share from local community response, emergent solutions, and heroic efforts to support local artists, venues, creative communities, and support networks in the surge/challenges of the COVID-19.
- Unique practices that may transfer to other areas
- Ways to learn between great ecosystems and communities of communities
- New combinations of business and community models – bridges beyond streaming
- “After” – rebuilding trust, conflicts for space/time/funds, challenges of funding in a community rebuilding mode
Please reach out if you have other ideas as well. This is a Big Tent project, meant to connect groups and great ideas.
Lead Co-Hosts:
- Dr. Gigi Louisa Johnson, President, Maremel Institute; Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Storm Gloor, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver College of Arts & Media
List of Collaborating Organizations: See the ever-updating list at AmplifyMusic.org.
Inquiries: Please reach out for speaking or collaborating at the links above. You also can email us at amplifymusic@maremel.com.
FAQ:
Speakers and Schedule: In planning stages now
Cost to Attend: Free. You may contribute toward the event at Eventbrite, but no payment is required to attend, speak, or share.
Cost to Collaborate: None required, though various collaborators are bringing their community emails, in-kind resources, volunteers, and great ideas.
Technology Needs to Participate:
- Speakers will need a webcam, microphone, and optimally a headset, along with Internet access from their computer, tablet, or smartphone.
- Participants and Speakers will be on Zoom or another webconference platform, so will need to be able to access the platform we chose (based on attendance); the sessions also will be recorded and shared online afterwards, and may be livestreamed as well.
Current Draft Schedule (to be shared with more detail by April 16):
April 23/24, 2020
Online – Details to be shared via Eventbrite
| PDT-7 | EDT-4 | Mumbai+5.5 | Tokyo+9 | NZST+12 | CEST+2 | Type | Session Name |
| 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | | | 8:00 AM | | Welcome | Welcome |
| 1:15 PM | 4:15 PM | | | 8:15 AM | | Panel | What is Resilience? |
| 1:45 PM | 4:45 PM | | | 8:45 AM | | Panel | Challenges to Date |
| 2:15 PM | 5:15 PM | | | 9:15 AM | | Break | Break |
| 2:30 PM | 5:30 PM | | | 9:30 AM | | Futures 15 | Future of Live Music |
| 2:45 PM | | | | 9:45 AM | | Panel | Practical Actions from the Front Lines in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco |
| 3:15 PM | | | | 10:15 AM | | Panel | What have been Nonprofit, Govt, and Organizational Main Actions in Local Music Communities? |
| 3:45 PM | | | | 10:45 AM | | Break | Break |
| 4:00 PM | | | 8:00 AM | 11:00 AM | | Panel | How can local organizations and foundations help? |
| 4:30 PM | | | 8:30 AM | 11:30 AM | | Panel | How have Local Radio and Media Stepped Up? |
| 5:00 PM | | | 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | | Break | Break |
| 5:15 PM | | | 9:15 AM | 12:15 PM | | Panel | Music Education — The Intertwining of Educational Disruption and Music Disruption |
| 5:45 PM | | | 9:45 AM | 12:45 PM | | Panel | Night Mayors – West Coast and Asia |
| | | | 10:15 AM | 1:15 PM | | Break | Break |
| | | | 10:30 AM | 1:30 PM | | Futures 15 | Future Music Trends Impacting Asia, Australia, and New Zealand |
| | | | 10:45 AM | 1:45 PM | | Panel | Tokyo & Japan: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | | 11:15 AM | 2:15 PM | | Panel | China & Hong Kong: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | | 11:45 AM | 2:45 PM | | Break | Break |
| | | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | | Panel | New Zealand & Australia: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 9:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 3:30 PM | | Panel | New Zealand & Australia: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 9:30 AM | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | | Break | |
| | | 9:45 AM | 1:15 PM | 4:15 PM | | Futurist 15 | TBA |
| | | 10:00 AM | 1:30 PM | 4:30 PM | | Panel | TBA |
| | | 10:30 AM | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | | Panel | TBA |
| | | 11:00 AM | 2:30 PM | 5:30 PM | | Break | |
| | | 11:15 AM | 2:45 PM | 5:45 PM | | Panel | India: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 11:45 AM | 3:15 PM | | 8:15 | Panel | India: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 12:15 PM | 3:45 PM | | 8:45 | Break | |
| | | 12:30 PM | 4:00 PM | | 9:00 | Panel | Advocacy Approached from Europe |
| | | 1:00 PM | 4:30 PM | | 9:30 | Panel | European Nightlife: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 1:30 PM | 5:00 PM | | 10:00 | Break | |
| | | 1:45 PM | 12/31/1899 17:15:00 | | 10:15 | Futurist 15 | Beyond Music: Bigger Trends in a Changing Society |
| | | 2:00 PM | 5:30 PM | | 10:30 | Panel | Working with Government in Recovery |
| | | 2:30 PM | | | 11:00 | Panel | Europe: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | | 3:00 PM | | | 11:30 | Panel | Music Cities: How Can Information and Social Structures Support Current and Future Challenges? |
| | | 3:30 PM | | | 12:00 | Break | |
| | | 3:45 PM | | | 12:15 | Panel | Diversity of the Live Music Sector |
| | | 4:15 PM | | | 12:45 | Panel | COVID-19, and then what? |
| | | 4:45 PM | | | 13:15 | Break | |
| | | 5:00 PM | | | 13:30 | Panel | TBD Europe |
| | 8:00 AM | 5:30 PM | | | 14:00 | Panel | TBD Europe |
| | 8:30 AM | 6:00 PM | | | 14:30 | Break | |
| | 8:45 AM | | | | 14:45 | Futurist 15 | TBD |
| | 9:00 AM | | | | 15:00 | Panel | Latin America: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | 9:30 AM | | | | 15:30 | Panel | Latin America: Practical Actions and Challenges |
| | 10:00 AM | | | | 16:00 | Break | |
| | 10:15 AM | | | | 16:15 | Panel | How Data is Collectable/Collected Toward Local Action and Recovery |
| | 10:45 AM | | | | 16:45 | Panel | Role of Technology in Our Transitions |
| 8:15 AM | 11:15 AM | | | | 17:15 | Break | |
| 8:30 AM | 11:30 AM | | | | | Panel | Important Takeaways from Katrina: The Challanges of New Orleans’ are the World’s Challenges |
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | | | | | Panel | Archiving Music History and Culture |
| 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | | | | | Break | |
| 9:45 AM | 12:45 PM | | | | | Futurist 15 | TBA |
| 10:00 AM | 1:00 PM | | | | | Panel | Future Cities: Working Together for Government Structured Support for Recovery |
| 10:30 AM | 1:30 PM | | | | | Panel | Recovery: How To Support One Another Through Music and Vice Versa |
| 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | | | | | Break | |
| 11:15 AM | 2:15 PM | | | | | Panel | Future of Live Venues and Events |
| 12:15 PM | 3:15 PM | | | | | Panel | Future of Live Experience and Music in Future Disasters and Social Challenges |
| 12:45 PM | 3:45 PM | | | | | Panel | Roles of the Individual in Society – Inequalities, Anonymity and Rights |
| 1:15 PM | 4:15 PM | | | | | Panel | Where the Next Year May Take Us |
| 1:45 PM | 4:45 PM | | | | | Panel | Closing Conversation: How To Stay Connected and Share Insights Going Forward |
