Anticipating the Wave of the Future: How R/GA and Google Approach Innovation
Very cool presentation by some of the top tech product integration teams in the world. The talk was presented at the Jabs Hall, Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
Here is a bit from the event page on Facebook:
The Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship (JJCBE) is pleased to announce that the award-winning interactive digital agency R/GA is returning to the MSU campus and this time will be joined by Google’s Brand Studio.
They will be presenting “Anticipating the Wave of the Future: How R/GA & Google Approach Innovation” on Thursday, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. in Jabs Hall room 111.
This event will also be live streamed on our Facebook page. Read more about the event on Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship (JJCBE) website.
My summary of hte Google Brand Studio:
Interesting the collective group of designers, developers and strategists who work to increase the brand integrations, partnerships and presentations across their product platforms.
One of the questions asked:
What is the best thing to learn as a recent graduate entering the design/development career field? The answer was interesting, basically you should be open to change and fluid in your approach to challenges and continued education because life changes and software certainly changes, often very rapidly.
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How well did the Bozeman event go? I’d love to see an upcoming event. Glad you all were able to share a bit of video on here, though. Makes me feel like I didn’t miss out on it.
You guys are SkyPoint are spot-on. Thanks for sharing a bit of the Google event. I feel a bit more caught up. Do you have a newsletter to catch folks up on things?