• We present the concept for an app to support richer, more effective way of
  connecting with people at in-person events.

MVP app overview

overview of app to support more effective connection making at in-person events

• meeting multiple people and having multiple conversations makes it near impossible
  to remember the context/meaning each connection
• there is no standardised culture or protocol of creating a promise of follow-on
  action
• there is no support system for follow-up of connections made
• there is no way of sharing real-time connection feed with your tribe/organisation
• existing networks (WhatsApp/Telegram/etc.) provides no way of attaching
  semantic information or notes to a connection

But in-person connections are immensely valuable - we’re wasting HUGE resources
by not ensuring effective follow-on.

why?

going from conversation to connection is highly ineffective

minimal

1. show/scan QR code
2. select action and topic & take selfie
3. record audio describing the action

make connection

scan QR code, select action, make connection

recorded for every connection:

• who - the players inthe connection
• topic - which ideaspace is it?
• action - what kind of action is promised?
• selfie - photo of people making the connection
• voice note - recording giving detailed information

• creates visibility for connections as they are
  made
• enables both tribes to become involved
• allows people not present at the event to
  follow connection flow
• discussion threads can be started around the
  connection

timeline

a real-time feed of connections made

connections published in discord to:

• private message with both sides
• each person's camp discord channel
• topic discord channel

TBD: public sharing

• share as an Instagram story

• send automated reminders to follow-up a
  connection
• send survey to find out how many connections
  turned into action
• thematic follow-up
  • conversations week
  • webinars to support project starts

connection follow-up

support connections turning into action

• show how many connections are being created
• analyse type of connections being created
• survey to see how many connections are being
  followed-up
• daily reports of connections

analytics & impact

demonstrate event impact

daily analytics:

• connections per type
• connections per topic
• connections per person

impact metrics:

• same as above for whole event
• AI summaries based on voice2text
• follow-up analytics

• by creating games and challenges
• gamification of connection making
• encourage introverted people to make connections
• promote connections around specific topics or
  actions

For MVP we will share these invitation to play as text
messages, future possibilities for gamification are
HUGE!

gamification

create energy to connect

daily challenges:

• today make a connection to do X
  with someone
• in next 1 hour connect with
  someone from camp X
• quests - a series of connections

• Given we have this basic collaboration atom of connection, and the app
  supporting it, we want to use it creatively to express different activities...

playing with connection

we creatively use connection for additional functionality at The Gathering

• physical location displays printed QR code
• scanning allows you to connect with the location

connect with location

connection with a physical location

creative use makes possible different
scenarios:

• ticket check at entrance gate
• connect to a camp
• announce instant-meet

• entrance displays QR code
• participants scans QR code with their phone and
  clicks “create connection”

this process lets us

• onboard participants onto the app right at the gate
• verifies they are able to log into the connect for
  action system i.e. that they have access i.e. that they
  have bought a ticket

welcome

connect as ticket check

key points:

• enables live analytics on number of
  people who have entered event
• being logged into the system
  connects with being ticket holder,
  reducing number of systems to
  maintain
• need to have working WiFi at gate
• need to be prepared for system-
  down (print-out list of ticket
  holders?)

• camp catalyst has a welcome QR code
• participants scans QR code with their phone and
  clicks “create connection”

camp welcome

similar mechanics to gate check-in

key points:

• camp participants know who has
  arrived

Given that probably social-layer will not be able to
implement this feature, we enable it as follows:

• specific meet-up locations have a QR code
• anyone can scan location QR code and by
  creating a connection start a “pop-up meet-up”
• announcement published on discord channels for
  location and topic

pop-up meet-up

I’m here now, join me to talk about topic X

key points:

• need clear signs at location.
• will people use it?
• who knows, but it will be a cheap
  test to see if we can build behaviour

• camps have a QR code
• scan location QR code and connect-for-action
  with a camp
• could be used with commitments by camp
  members to do things for a camp?

Do we have camp-specific actions?

connect to camp

connect with a camp

• a finger on the pulse of the gathering

morning/daily checkin

get a regular checkin from all participants

key points:

• enables gathering a life stream of
  sentiment of the gathering
• can take and produce for social
  media

• hide qr codes with questions on the land and only by
  finding it and connecting with it can you become
  part of that discord channel

treasure hunt

only those who find the code join the secret society!

key points:

• connect physical experience with a
  digital experience
• turn The Gathering into a proper AR
  experience!

• QR code at the gate to collect a thought from
  everyone as they are leaving
• 
  

goodbye

a testimonial from people on leaving

key points:

• a great way for everyone to say
  goodbye to everyone
• enables gathering a stream of warm
  testimonials
• can produce for social media

CONNECT FOR ACTION

We hope that soon we will not need this as a stand-alone app because:

• we inspire event apps to include this as standard functionality

social layer, looking at you especially

• we predict the rise of collaboration networks as the next phase of evolution after
  social networks and these will be based on a richer functionality for creating
  promises and agreements

where is this going?

clearly this is a feature not an app...

• discord is used for all notification posts and
  communications
• minimal web-app which just records information
• login via discord
• use smartphone built-in QR code scanner for reading
  connection QR code
• google firebase firestore for database
• google firebase storage for images & audio clips

implementation

minimal app, discord for identity, notification, reports, etc.

see implementation spec:

• miro overview
• development spec