Since the Power of One event, we've been asked by a lot of people whether we have plans to make a movie of the day. Fortunately, as we live streamed the event, we were able to capture the whole thing in beautiful HD.

And so, for those who want to watch again, or for anyone who wasn’t able to make it to our first Power of One event, please find below all the videos of the speakers, edited so you can also see their slides.

Enjoy!

The videos

Jason Calacanis talks about the awesome time we live in and the opportunity for technology entrepreneurs and start ups to disrupt.

Sam Ramji talks about how API's are like Darwin's Finches.

David McCandless talks through some of the most powerful and unusual insights revealed by representing data and information in graphical form.

The media panel, chaired by Charles Arthur of The Guardian with Stuart Dredge, Tim Green and Ewan MacLeod.

Yosi Taguri talking about why he's unafraid of failure (and has failed at everything he's ever tried).

Richard Kramer talks through the start ups he meets, largely in mobile technology, and attempts to uncover which ones will be profitable and which ones have inventions that will work.

The investor panel, chaired by Elizabeth Varley with participants from Jason Calacanis, Hugo de los Santos Real, Carlos Eduardo and Tyler Crowley.

Morten Lund inspires start-ups to give. It. All.

iHi is a simple but addictive and impressive iPhone, Android and iPad application for getting your message across.

Guest interviews at the Power of One in Battersea Power Station on 11.11.11

More interviews with guests at The Power of One Battersea Power Station 11.11.11

 

This blog post has been cross-posted from the BlueVia blog

So, we did it.

Six months planning, two months telling friends, not a spot of advertising and no hint that BlueVia was behind the whole thing.  The Power of One was a different type of event altogether.  A day to celebrate the start-up culture that’s turned the world of technology upside down.

It had first been promoted via Twitter.  Later, we spread the word through our network of friends.  We used a little bit of arm twisting to get things done like the awesome augmented reality flying pig (because yes, sometimes they do).  And in the end, the word spread further than we’d ever hoped.

An unusual gathering

The result was an unexpectedly intimate event held in a tented area dwarfed by the ersatz splendour of Battersea Power Station.  The setting offered a stark reminder that the monolithic companies of old are in decline and start-ups now driving innovation.

This surely was a gathering characterised by contradictions.

The speakers we invited were a mix of the world famous and the up and coming, truly representing the spirit of the Power of One.  Jason Calacanis, Morten Lund and David McCandless gave their stock-in-trade honest, off the cuff and inspirational perspectives on how ideas spread and start-ups catch fire.  Yosi Taguri (developer of cult mobile game Pah!) and Stuart Arnott of Scottish startup Mindings were probably new names to most people but their perspectives were perhaps the most valid, given the people listening.

Everyone had a story to tell.  Collectively, they told a story of both inspiration and hard hours.  And in the end, the few hundred who made the trip to the banks of the fast-flowing Thames were united in one view: tomorrows giants may have been right there among us in that ancient turbine hall.  We may never know for sure but we heard some extraordinary ideas on the day, so we’ll be looking out for them.

The point of the Power of One was about a single message: that in today’s ultra-connected world, anyone can create the next big thing.

Power of One in numbers

• Zero – the number of dollars spent on advertising
• Two – the number of minutes silence respected for the Armistice
• 350 – the number of people who turned up because they heard about the event on the grapevine
• 50,000 – the number of words tweeted about #p1event on 11.11.11

We’re truly excited about the fact that BlueVia was able to pull together something so big without anyone questioning it..  We had moments of self-doubt; would people come, could we find the right speakers, could we find an awesome venue.  We feel completely vindicated, if not a little exhausted! The sense of positivity at the event came from the fact that people were really just there to meet, talk and listen.

There was no sales pitch.

And that leaves us looking ahead.  We’re considering what the future holds for Power of One.  We loved it.  We think everyone who came along loved it.  So we want to know from you whether there is an appetite there is for future Power of One events.  Please help us by answering these questions (there are only three!) or in the comments below.

As they often say at the end of blog posts like this... watch this space.

Photos courtesy of Mark Power and James Parton

We have been working with a start up called Taxi Stop who provide the ability to call taxis via SMS and Twitter.

Battersea Power Station is a short walk from Vauxhall Station but we know the weather is not always kind in mid-November London. So we have arranged for one of the Taxi Stop London Cabs to be available all day doing shuttle runs between Vauxhall and Battersea Power Station.

You should be able to spot the taxi (it will not be in the normal taxi rank) and it will have power of one and taxi stop branding in the back window. If you ask the driver whether its the "free taxi to the power of one" and he stares back at you with a blank expression on his face, you are in the wrong cab and he will charge you about £5 for the ride to the power station.

Make sure you are following @p0wer0f1 on twitter for further updates and self organising the taxi journies on friday morning.