Innovation Labs

It’s Monday and we’re just finishing a normal day back in the office. It feels odd having gone through a full day without doing at least one pitch! And there’s not even a two hour dinner to look forward to…

Looking back on the week it’s amazing exactly what we managed to fit in. I think a big congrats has to go to Matt and Frank for the massive organisational skills needed to get so much out of all of us!

I’d particularly like to echo the comments of Idaho in taking advantage of the mentors. One of the most memorable (and certainly the most valuable) experiences of the week was on Wednesday afternoon. We’d got our pitch to the point where we thought it was just about finished, only to have it torn into tiny pieces, screwed up and burnt to a cinder by Matt Marsh. Amazingly though, he’d actually made us feel better about it and really got us a million steps closer to our (really) final pitch, which was then cemented by a group effort from all of the other mentors.

We were one of the few to be selected for a commission by the BBC, so their work definitely paid off!

This was a great week and it was a great opportunity to have a week away with our peers. Learning what everyone is up to and forming new relationships was invaluable. I really hope to keep in touch with many that I met in Keswick and look forward to seeing how successful their ideas become!