VizThink Salt Lake City Launch!
VIZTHINK IS GATHERING VISUAL THINKERS from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning an communication. VizThink was initially conceived by Dave Gray, Chairman of Xplane. A long time proponent of Visual Communication, Dave envisoned the creation of a global community of visual thinkers. In 2006 XPLANE expanded to Europe through a new office in Madrid, Spain. While in Europe Dave became acquainted with Rodolfo Carpintier of Digital Assets Deployment, a business incubator firm in Madrid.
Through their conversations the concept of VizThink was raised and Mr. Carpintier, who has a successful history of building organizations that revolve around community, was enthused by the idea and decided to fund it.
In July of 2007, after about six months of planning, VizThink was launched…
Today VizThink operates conferences in North America and Europe, a successful workshop series featuring industry gurus and local communities in several cities, with many more in the process of organizing their first event. Jack Hadley, founder of ClarityWorx is an avid proponent of visual thinking to solve business problems and to help clarify brand messaging. He recently attended a workshop with Dave Gray and Karl Gude in Chicago where he met up with VizThink’s organizers.
VizThink Utah will hold it’s first workshop on THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009 at CoworkUtah in Orem. Subscribe to the VizThink Salt Lake City blogsite HERE and watch for details!
VizThink Conference in San Jose
I am currently attending the North American conference in San Jose.
Yesterday I was so impressed by the work AutoDesk is doing. As a world leader in 3D design software, Autodesk enables people to visualize, analyze, and experience their ideas before they are real. With a wide spectrum of industry-specific products, Autodesk creates best-in-class solutions designed to meet people’s unique business needs.
AutoDesk created the following visual presentation after the TED conference that recently concluded:
The Power of Visual Problem Solving
I recently attended VizThink ‘09 in San Jose, California, where I learned tons from the best visual thinkers in the world.
One of the workshops I enjoyed most was with Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin, recently named one of the best business books of 2008. Dan is a fascinating guy and his book is simply brilliant. He spoke a lot about his next book, and I am anxious to summarize my notes from that lecture and will post them here. In the meantime, if you believe in the power of visual thinking to solve business challenges, pick up his book. It isn’t an “easy” read, but if you’re fascinated (like I am) with organizing complex information, and then distilling it in ways that help people communicate, you will enjoy the book.