Non Bullshit Innovation (Penguin). WIRED UK founding editor. Investor Grammarly Improbable Cerebral Kitopi. Community at VOYAGERS.io. david(at)davidrowan.com
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16 May 2019
Today Penguin publishes my book Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds. It took me to 20 countries from Peru to China to find the real thing. Because there's too much "innovation theatre" out there. Seems it's 30% off today amzn.to/2Ozam9b
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31 Oct 2024
Festivals beat conferences - THEHEAT.io ftw
🌍 As climate challenges rise, #ClimateAction events like🔥THE HEAT by @iRowan & VOYAGERS drive real solutions. Satgana's Anil Maguru joined leaders sparking impactful change. Huge thanks, David & team! 👏
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11 Sep 2024
Our stretch goal for THEHEAT.io, the first VOYAGERS climate-tech festival next Friday, was 300 people. Today we're at 550 amazing founders, investors, writers, scientists more coming to Harwell Campus near Oxford. So we added a few final tickets. Join us.
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15 May 2024
My latest project: a climate-tech festival called 🔥THE HEAT that will celebrate the creative science-based entrepreneurship behind decarbonisation THEHEAT.io
15 May 2024
Join us at THE HEAT 🔥 on Sept 20, from 10am-10pm.
This climate-tech festival merges innovation, creativity, and urgency. Expect inspiring stories, workshops & demos with 400 attendees & top speakers.
Limited early bird tickets: lnkd.in/eFHZFk-s
#climatetech #theheat
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1 Dec 2023
Still long on humans
30 Nov 2023
Very human-like Slush talk by @iRowan at Beyond the Paradigm Shift event. AI is here and we can certainly outsource work to it, even thinking - but we as humans have compassion, love and curiosity
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15 Jun 2023
Authors gotta hustle, even if that means getting the Prime Minister of Moldova unwittingly to endorse your book… Thanks Moldova Digital Summit team
15 Jun 2023
Moldova Digital Summit started today.
Digitalization is ongoing & we’re ready to enhance technology further to make things easier, faster & more accessible for everyone.
@GuvernulRMD’s priority is to automate processes & make them more efficient for our citizens and businesses.
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10 Apr 2023
Thanks @Siftedeu for explaining how I went from editing @WiredUK to becoming an accidental climate-tech and health-tech VC… after setting up the not-for-profit @VOYAGERSHQ community sifted.eu/articles/voyagers-…
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26 Oct 2022
I’m moderating a big climate-tech event today in a giant tent in a forest south of Tel Aviv, where the goal is to be “carbon balanced” and re-use/offset everything. Other event organisers, please take note.
25 Oct 2022
Big events are notoriously unsustainable, but that’s changing now thanks to Israeli innovation. Propelled by innovators from across the country, the Climate Solutions Festival is “raising the bar for sustainable event production.” Click here to learn how 👉okt.to/BYF8p5
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21 Oct 2022
Loving the opportunity to bring outside talent to collaborate with Britain’s leading applied-science campus
20 Oct 2022
Harwell Campus is growing, fast.
Over the next few years, our generational investment in the campus will see us grow from around 6,000 people today to over 12,000.
To ensure we’re making smart investments in our future we’ve appointed a new Expert Advisory Group.
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David Rowan retweeted
We’ve pulled together the OneLeap team’s top Four Must-Read Books to Kickstart Your Corporate Entrepreneurship in 2022! Read more: bit.ly/34bO7lV
Got some other suggestions? Comment below!
#readinglist #innovation @rgmcgrath @ChrisSerendip @iRowan @priyaparker
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6 Jan 2022
Only time I’ve been ahead of a fashion trend
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28 Dec 2021
Worrying new symptom leading BBC News right now - the woman on the left grew an EXTRA ARM with no hand attached. And how heartless of her friends to mock her… #PhotoshopDisaster
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6 Dec 2021
Needed!
6 Dec 2021
Excited to be launching Responsible Innovation Labs @ResponsibleLabs with @JZieger and team today. fastcompany.com/90702822/ex-…
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1 Dec 2021
Shared some thoughts on post-Covid tech opportunities with the Spanish newspaper ABC in Madrid last week. Gracias a Alexia Columba Jerez @abc_es abc.es/economia/abci-david-r…
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27 Oct 2021
David Rowan @iRowan
I absolutely fell in love with Non-Bullshit Innovation at first sight. His insights and perspective into entrepreneurship and business transformation are mind-blowing. I learned so much from his talks as well.
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27 Oct 2021
“Cognitive diversity, psychological safety and agreed protocols that keep you disciplined, I think, is the way to build effectively big, bold new projects."
― @iRowan, from my book #BusinessUnusual
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20 Sep 2021
How can we encourage innovation, creativity and transparency, and empower talented people to drive business forward? I speak with @iRowan about this and more in this week’s episode of The Hive: nathalienahai.com/64-innovat… #businessunusual
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16 Sep 2021
That was fast, @lynchseattle @oxol. Your focus seems to have determined your reality…
Rebellion Defense, a developer of AI solutions for U.S. defense, tells Axios that it has raised $150 million in venture capital at a $1 billion pre-money valuation.
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13 Sep 2021
When I founded the @festivalofinnov ten years ago, it was in my mind to be implicitly about #innovation without the BS. Then @iRowan wrote the book! So I'm delighted our worlds will collide at last this year when he'll join us in #Malvern on Thur 7th Oct - festival-innovation.com/prog…
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2 Sep 2021
Amazing opportunity for 7 climate-tech founders to join a @VOYAGERSHQ networking adventure in Portugal's wine country in three weeks, your costs generously covered by @PrimaMateria_. VOYAGERS runs these events at cost to connect mission-led people. voyagers.io/adventures/portu…
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