STEAM Haiku from Inspirefest

I went to Inspirefest last week at the Bord Gais Theatre. It was an amazing, inspiring, energising, thought-provoking two days. I tweeted some STEAM haiku throughout. I thought as Twitter is so temporary, I'd share them here for a flavour of the festival, twitter handles, hashtags and all. Silicon Republic, who organised it picked up one for an article here

Enda strides inside
Centre of gravity
Realigns the crowd
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

More women on walls
Inspire all generations
Statues and street names
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #KayMcNulty

Corseted Ada
Weaving algebraic terms
Visions of futures
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet @zophilpott @adatheshow

Fingertip chips hide
In the fabric of your lives
Wearables abound
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #NoelMuphy #iot

Novel spectacle
Engineers think differently
Artists show and tell
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @ul

Authenticity -
Crucial for working artists
A corporate world
 #Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Nude is a concept
Not the colour of my legs
Leboutin heels
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @judithmwilliams @Dropbox

1986
Leather goddesses of Phobos
First females in games
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #gamerhistory

Black game avatars
Homogeneous designers -
Only two hairstyles
 #Inspirefest #unofficialpoet @br

Why no females here?
Boobs too hard to render
Jiggle physics
 #Inspirefest #seriously #unofficialpoet

Our house is threatened
We immediately don
Chainmail bikinis
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku #womengamers @br

What made you happy
When you were eight years old?
We're tall eight year olds
 #inspirefest #unofficialpoet #swings #tellingstories

Most influential?
Mothers. Let's educate them
Maths for everyone
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Hire smart people
Diverse backgrounds, sex and age
They'll figure it out
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Zipcode and parents'
Level of education
Shouldn't fix your path
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet Alex Bernadotte

First child at college
Travelled with a caravan
We were ten cars deep
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet Alex Bernadotte

'It's so important
to be open minded.
This time we mean it’
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #heardthesame30yearsago #wanttobelive

Quality content
As long as they look like us -
Unconscious bias
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #stillafactor

Top criterion
For choosing a career?
Will I fit in
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #shockingresearch

Social media
The sound could travel further
It was deafening
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #wtf

Not about theatre
Power is about stories
Who gets to tell them
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #wtf

I won't ask how you
Manage your work life balance
Or about your kids
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @minniemelange absolute legend

Help save Bletchley Park
Stephen Fry stuck in a lift
Tweets hooked his support
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet @Dr_Black #arealpleasure

Untapped potential
Returnships - Older workers
Back in the tech fold
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @accenture @EllynJShook1

What makes us better?
Equal makes us greater than
No more lip service
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Culture
Eats strategy
For breakfast
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet

I've a confession
Let me share a story
Please relate to me
 #inspirefest #professionalspeakers #unofficialpoet

What is cool for us
Is life-changing for the blind
Driverless cars
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Silicon valley dudes
Have a massive man-crush
On Elon Musk
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #icantseeit @karaswisher

Hard to parody
A parody of itself -
Silicon Valley
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Build your network
Of people who know you
And know what you know
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet @jkhoey #wisewords

Build your bank account
For side projects and passions
Still need to eat
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @jkhoey

Remind yourself
You didn't like everyone
At your college
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #candidateselection

Embrace the option
Be the token.
Influence
Be proud of this
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Some business cultures
Worship the cult of overwork
Top down decision
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet

A good egg
Has to change. Must be hatched
Or go bad
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @Hatch Human analytics

Yoga at lunchtime
Corporate retention
Prolongs the breakup
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet Katherine von Jan

No change no surprise
Taking H out of HR
Working in silos
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #rethink #refire

Not ready to quit
Not about to slow down
Refire Rewire
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet Wonderfully uncompromising @gianna212

When was the last time
I was doing something
For the first time
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet @raju talks in haiku

Have to speed up
Evolution. Can't afford
Revolution
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #ClimateChange #STEAMhaiku

You can't solve
Exponential problems with
Linear fixes
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @rmchase

If you want to
Go fast
Go alone

If you want to
Go far
Go together
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku African Proverb #Collaboration

Mission statements
Crammed full of corporate speak -
Pass the sick bag
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Build your brand
Clear, credible, relevant
Disrupt, interrupt
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Soylent is Slimfast
Invented by men for men
Let's call it tech
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEMhaiku @NellieBowles

Design culture
Not attached to mothership
Won't succeed
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku Mark Curtis

Shite WiFi dams flow
Silences interaction
Constipates haiku
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet

Some things happen fast
But not always because
Things are improving
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku Lorna Ross

Built environment
Reflects
Daily rituals
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Plan from the endpoint
Legacy -the world is better
Because you were here
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @TamaraMcCleary

More men called John
Lead top companies
Than women
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku #womennotcalledjohn #diversity

Human-centred design
Challenging too much style
Not enough function
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Take a guess
3rd highest cause of death?
Medical error
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @crblease

Grand Canal bank
Come in, use our WiFi. Talk
Really. There's no catch
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @talktoBOI

Awesome Abigail -
Wow! How lucky am I
To be alive
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @_elena @Lottie_dolls #teary

Idea-Fizzing
Outbox incubator girls
Inspire us all
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @OutboxIncubator @marycarty

I wanted to be
A face in the crowd
To fit in

In this body
I didn't like
And didn't want

I'm still the same
The biggest change
Is that I'm happy
 #Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @Broken_Liar

If they won't move
In the right direction
We have to shove them
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku venture capital

LA billboard
You're not stuck in traffic
You are the traffic
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Nothing's changed
There's a lot of noise
More talk, no action
#inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Unconscious bias -
Training is not
A magic bullet
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku it is conscious

Opportunities
To imagine the future
Build the future
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @judithmwilliams  @Dropbox

When canaries die
Don't change the canary
Change the atmosphere
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @adamquinton

Experts predictions
after ten years - wrong, almost
Universally
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @maureengaffney #massivefan

The brain is structured
To give emotions
Preeminent roles
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @maureengaffney

Nine bits of positive
To reverse
One negative
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku

Little evidence
That optimists
Are ever worse off
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku @maureengaffney #Yay

Inspiration
Has a touch of the divine
Shows us bigger things
#Inspirefest #unofficialpoet #STEAMhaiku Catch the heart offguard, blow it open