Flourish: Human-AI Playbooks Unconference
Flourish: Human-AI Playbooks Unconference
6-hour Open Space Technology (OST) unconference at Newspeak House, London. Swap what actually works with AI. Share ideas and worries about the future. Get inspired. (Get terrified, optional.) Bring prompts, patterns, policies, experiences, current research, and hard-won lessons: both the “this could work” and the “this could go wrong.”
Who’s this for? Builders, coaches/educators, founders/civic-tech, policy/alignment folk, curious newcomers.
Why come?
Practice: Share prompts, workflows, code snippets personal experiences, collaboration tricks you can experiment with.
Safety: Practical safety/alignment moves (data hygiene, evals, red-teaming, “kill-switch” conditions). More research or mid-long term oriented conversations, positions, exchanges.
Community: Meet peers who are shipping, worried (productively), or both.
If you want to tell everyone what you’ve learned: come.If you want to warn everyone we need guardrails (and have ideas): come.If you want to listen, test, and contribute: come.
What is an unconference? (OST in 60 seconds)
We start together, build the agenda together, then split into parallel sessions.
Principles (short):
Whoever comes are the right people.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
Whenever it starts is the right time.
When it’s over, it’s over.
Law of Two Feet: If you’re not learning or contributing, move to another session. Guilt-free.
Format (today): Opening circle → marketplace (we propose sessions) → four session blocks → group synthesis → social
Schedule
13:30 Doors open
14:00 Opening circle (purpose, principles, logistics) — 20m
14:20 Marketplace (build the grid) — 20m
14:40 Session Block A — 45m
15:30 Session Block B — 45m
16:20 Break — 20m
16:40 Session Block C — 45m
17:30 Session Block D — 45m
18:20 Closing circle — 30m
18:50–20:00 Social / teardown
We will have up to 7 spaces for sessions at the same time. (Exact times may shift slightly on the day.)
Tracks & seed topics (examples)
Practice: Share prompts, workflows, code snippets personal experiences, collaboration tricks you can experiment with.
Safety: Practical safety/alignment moves (data hygiene, evals, red-teaming, “kill-switch” conditions). More research or mid-long term oriented conversations, positions, exchanges.
Civic/Org: AI for public interest, policy interfaces, procurement, org adoption playbooks.
Community: Meet peers who are shipping, worried (productively), or both.
Proposing sessions
We will do it at the event, during a beautiful messy moment at the start. You can bring a more polished presentation, demo, topic. You can bring just a question, or something you tried and got curious about. We will propose the topics, describe them, host them, see who comes.
FAQ
Do I need to be an expert? No. If you’re curious and constructive, you’re in. Experts welcome, egos not required.
Keynote speakers? No keynotes. If you’re keynote-caliber, host a session or a 5-min lightning.
Can I just listen? Yes, but you’ll get more by proposing, asking, or demoing.
What should I bring? Curiosity and desire to learn and share. A problem, demo, or story if you want. Laptop optional. Power adapters if you need them.
House rules / Code of Conduct
Be kind. Be specific. Debate ideas, not people. No hype-only demos: show what you do, disclose models, data, limits, and risks. Zero tolerance for harassment. Breaches = removal.