Introduction:

The annual theme of BigHook2016 is Power, specifically interpersonal, social, financial & political power. We may also consider electrical power and other forms of power in the physical world - the annual theme is to provide a central tendancy, not to exclude anything.

Agenda

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Wednesday, September 7

Noon to 1:30 PM: Check in, lunch, swimming, meet fellow participants
1:30 to 3:30 PM: Session 1a: Extended Personal Introductions
3:30 to 4:00 PM: Break
4:00 to 5:30 PM, Session 1b: More Intros, intro to "power"
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner
8:00 to 10:00 PM (or so), Session 2: Music & talk by Yochai Benkler.
10:00 PM to Whenever: Whatever

Thursday, September 8

7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 3a: Discussion
10:00 to 10:30: Break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 3b: More Discussion
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, swimming
2:00 to 3:30 PM, Session 4a: Yet more discussion
3:30 to 4:00 PM: Break
4:00 to 5:30, Session 4b: More discussion
5:30 to 8:00 PM: Dinner
8:00 to 10:00 PM, Session 5: Music, talk by someone totally cool.
10:00 PM to Whenever: Whatever

Friday, September 9

7:00 to 8:30 AM: Breakfast
8:30 to 10:00 AM, Session 6a:Wrap-up talks invited here (sign up in advance)
10:00 to 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 AM to Noon, Session 6b: Summaries, Learnings, Action Items.
Noon to 2:00 PM: Lunch, swimming
2:00 PM-ish: Adjourn

Music

The BigHook2016 musicians in residence are Phoebe Hunt (violin) and Dominick Leslie (mandolin).

Sponsors & Acknowledgements

The BigHook community and isen.com, LLC gratefully acknowledge the generous and patient financial support of Google via the good offices of Vint Cerf & Rick Whitt. We also give thanks to the other BigHook sponsors, SIDN (the .nl registry) via CEO Roelof Meijer, Comcast via Jason Livingood, Afilias via Ram Mohan & D�sir�e Miloshevic, Ting via Elliot Noss, Global Investment Research via Roxane Googin, and the other paying participants who contributed more than they had to to make BigHook a continuing, sustainable success.

Thanks also to

• Suzy & Ben, the caretakers of the Airplane House
• Chef Roland and his fine crew for the food
• Dewayne Hendricks for the wi-fi
• Comcast for Internet connectivity
• Paula Blumenthal

Thanks also to David Stanwood, whose photo below inspired this year's BigHook graphic.

Fine Print:

All of the above is on a best effort basis. I might fail to deliver on any of the above, so none of it is a promise, and no guarantees or warranties are implied. Here's my actual, real world promise: I'll do my best, and if things screw up or stuff happens that causes plans to change, I'll do my best to fix them and/or give as much notice as I practically can. In other words, if you don't expect the impossible, I'll do my best to deliver it. -- David I