Our 2012 program/presenter information will be updated in early May 2012.
Our inaugural year will be a journey of discovery as we fill the blank page….but we believe our perennial focus will consider big ideas and the varying arc of those ideas as they shift from inception to action.
Nantucket has an interesting history in the re-thinking of ideas. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave his first speech before an all-white audience there in 1841. Equal opportunities for women were found in Nantucket hundreds of years before equal rights were found across the country. The evolution of Nantucket from a 19th century whaling port to a world class tourist destination also serves as a great study for the kind of innovative thinking and strategic reinvention that is in such demand today.
The Nantucket Project will showcase ideas that help us or have made us re-think through the exploration of change -- how change informs our world, the consequences of successfully forcing or anticipating it, the peril of constancy and how leading thinkers and influencers across disciplines have experienced it. The re-invention of Nantucket is analogous to the current set of challenges and opportunities facing America and our world. The Nantucket Project will pursue ideas that speak to the themes of innovation and reinvention with world-class presenters.
Through roughly 15-20 individual presentations and candid discussions, speakers from an array of different fields will share personal moments of learning that have shaped and informed their worldview. All participants will be in one location, in an intimate and relaxed setting having a shared experience. Participants should expect to be enlightened and entertained in a setting that will satisfy all of their senses in unique and interesting ways. We will engage in a variety of formats with our presenters - from short talks, to conversations to short videos, unexpected performances and demonstrations. In other words, this is not your typical conference.