Vancouver Service Jam 2024

Join Jammers in over 100 locations around the world to work simultaneously for only 48 hours (or less!) and prototype services inspired by a secret global theme.

Come join us for 48 hours of interactive learning and doing, where you will learn Service Design processes and methods through a series of hands-on activities led by the Vancouver Service Design Community and Vancouver Design Check-In.

We look forward to hosting you and jamming with you along with the Global Service Jam community.

Join our Vancouver Service Design Community LinkedIn group to learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14000508/

What is a Jam?

A jam is a hands-on event where you learn to design services inspired by a secret global theme. You'll be working with people you might never have met before, bouncing insights and ideas off one another and building on what bounces back. And it's not just talking - you are here to build a functioning prototype and plan of action which you or somebody else might want to develop further. Can you prototype and plan in a way that someone could push the process of exploration further, knowing what resources they would need, what they should do, and who they should talk to?  That's the challenge of the Jam.

Who is it for?

Anyone can take part. You just need to be interested in creativity around the core focus of your chosen Global Jam and have an open, enquiring mind. 

People interested in service and customer experience will meet at locations all over the globe. They could be designers, students, business analysts, researchers, academics, customers, and more!

Why should I participate?

As a participant in a Global Jam, you will work through a whole design process in one weekend. Whether you are experienced or completely new to the field, you won't just be talking about service design, you will be working with others on developing concrete ideas and designs which could become real. 

Furthermore: 

• You will learn more about a design-based approach to problems, and about sustainability. 
• You will pick up a load of new ideas and work practices. 
• You will meet a lot of cool people at all levels of experience. 
• Your work and ideas will be reviewed by your peers, and presented to the world, where they can be seen by potential customers or employers, or people who could make them real. 
• You will design something that may become a real business. 
• You might get rich and famous. 
• You will certainly have a blast.

What to expect?

Friday, March 1st (5-7:30pm) / Day 1 - Form a team 

Meet your local innovators, form teams, and pick a starting point inspired by a secret global theme.

Saturday, March 2nd (10-5pm) / Day 2 - Build prototypes

Go out into the real world to discover insights and use them to start building something new

Sunday, March 3rd (10-4pm) / Day 3 - Iterate and share

Collaborate with your team to improve your prototype and share it with people in your community and the world.

 
If you have any questions, feel free to email vancouverservicejam@gmail.com

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors Chotime Productions & OXD for supporting our event!

We look forward to hosting you and jamming with you along with the Global Service Jam community!

From the Vancouver Service Jam organizers

(Vancouver Service Design Community and Vancouver Design Community)

• Full Refund: The price the ticket buyer paid, less any fees will be refunded

• Please note: If the fees are absorbed, this will not be a refund option