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Welcome to Collaborative Collision: Florida!

From the towering pines in Tallahassee to the neon lights of South Beach — Florida is a truly special place. We're glad you've chosen to join us as we discuss complex challenges facing our home state, and work to ensure that our friends, neighbors — and yes, even Florida Man— benefit from the discovery, creativity, and innovation taking place at Florida State University.

Connector is the first in our three-stage Collaborative Collision program where the FSU research community will come together to explore complex solutions to complex challenges like these. This afternoon we'll select up to 10 large-scale, societal challenges facing the state of Florida that the FSU research community will address, as well as connect potential collaborators using our research profile posters. Connector is the foundation for the Incubator stage where we'll form teams of 5-7 researchers for each challenge, and guide them as they work together to understand the Challenge they are trying to solve, what kind of solution is needed to make an Impact, the multi-year Strategy needed to develop that solution, and why they are the right Team to lead this effort. This all leads up to Accelerator where teams will pitch their idea for a chance to receive up to $100,000 to accelerate their impact.

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Agenda.

2:00pm

Welcome to Connector

2:20pm

Collaborative Challenges

3:00pm

Connector Conversations

4:00pm

Incubator Registration

Goals.

What we hope to achieve.

1. Turn our complex challenge — Florida — into smaller, more manageable collaborative challenges that can be explored by interdisciplinary teams.

2. Connect researchers, practitioners, and community members through their shared interest in exploring these challenges.

Connector is the first stage in the Collaborative Collision program. In Incubator we will build teams and develop projects to explore the collaborative challenges developed tonight, and only these teams are eligible to compete for funding through Accelerator. 

Collaborative Challenges.

Crowd sourcing 10 complex challenges in 5 minutes.

In Collaborative Challenges we use a crowd sourcing activity called 10 in 5 to determine which challenges our participants are most interest in exploring:

  1. On the card that you received at check-in, write one challenge facing the state of Florida that you are interested in.
  2. When instructed, trade cards with the person next to you.
  3. Read the challenge on your new card and think about how interested you would be to join a team working on that challenge.
  4. Circle a score between 1 (not interested) and 5 (very interested) and trade cards again with a different person.
  5. Repeat steps 3-4 until you get a card that already has 10 scores circled. Add up those scores and hold up your card.

Once every card has 10 scores, the host will call out for any cards with a score of 50, 49, 48, 47 etc. until the top ten ideas have surfaced.

Connector Conversations.

Connect through Shared interest in collaborative challenges.

The first step in building new teams is making connections around shared interest in exploring solutions to our collaborative challenges. Each challenge becomes the focus of a discussion pod, where up to five participants will introduce themselves by presenting their Research Profile and discussing three questions:

  1. Why is this challenge important to you?
  2. How might your work help us solve the challenge?
  3. Who are you?

Through three rounds of conversations participants will meet up to 15 potential collaborators!

Participants.

Click here to see a list of Connector: Florida participants

Over 50 researchers and practitioners participated in Connector: Florida. Participant names, affiliations, and contact information can be found at the link above.

Incubator: Florida.

Click here to register for Incubator: Florida!

In Incubator we turn connections into collaborations through a 10-week program where participants are guided through the process of developing a team, project, and funding proposal. Participants are matched based on one or more of tonight's collaborative challenges, and paired with a Guide who walks them through project development, team building, strategic positioning, and proposal development. Participating in Incubator allows teams to compete for up to $100,000 in Collaborative Collision's final stage — Accelerator.