Venez nous rejoindre pour discuter avec Vinnie Mirchandani de son livre The New Polymath dans une ambiance conviviale.

Featured Guest: Vinnie Mirchandani, author of recently published book, The New Polymath. And a raffle of few copies of the book.

The Book:

A Polymath—the Greek word for Renaissance Man—is someone who excels in many disciplines. From Leonardo da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin, we have relied on Polymaths to innovate and find creative solutions to the problems of the day. As our challenges have grown exponentially we need to bring together da Vinci, Franklin, and many more. The New Polymath is an enterprise that excels in multiple technologies—infotech, cleantech, healthtech, and other tech—and leverages multiple talent pools to create new medicine, new energy, and new algorithms. the diversity of today's technology palette and to profile over 150+ innovative people,. products and places at::

* Large multinationals such as GE and BP
* Fast-growing, midsized companies like Cognizant and salesforce.com
* The cleantech industry in China, farms in Ireland, and the back roads of Rwanda

The Author:

Mirchandani goes by the moniker of "Deal Architect," and coaches enterprises on how to exploit disruptive technology trends. A former Gartner analyst and PwC consultant, he is now a prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation on his "New Florence, New Renaissance" blog and about waste in technology on his "Deal Architect" blog. He has keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.

The Tweetup:

In an informal setting Mirchandani will discuss major themes for the book and how he used social networks in every aspect of the book process – from research to editing to marketing as described in this blog post

http://florence20.typepad.com/...

Additionally, there will be a raffle for copies of the boo which is just starting to ship in Europe, so you could get one of the first copies in France.

Commentary on book:

Benjamin Fried, CIO, Google, Inc : “Mirchandani inspires us to return to IT's roots, with the transformative power that comes from putting technology innovation in service to business and society”

Andy Mulholland, Global CTO, Capgemini " An excellent read on multiple levels: to learn from; to be entertained by; and most of all, to leave you wondering what you could personally achieve."

Abbie Lundberg, former Editor in Chief, CIO Magazine “(The Book) is an absolute refutation of the idea that there’s a lack of innovation going on; it is a veritable firehose of innovation examples, presented by someone who knows what it takes to make innovation happen inside organizations large and small.”