BT’s CEO greets the Trav­el­ing Geeks from JD Lasica on Vimeo.

Here’s a 3-minute video of BT (British Tele­com) CEO Ian Liv­ingston I took prior to the gala din­ner party BT held for the Trav­el­ing Geeks atop the BT Tower in cen­tral London.

What’s inter­est­ing is not the gra­cious greet­ing he gave to the Geeks, but the way in which he described the the cul­ture of Great Britain’s largest telco. He said BT doesn’t start from the premise “that every inno­va­tion comes from our labs. It was prob­a­bly never true, and now def­i­nitely isn’t true.” He dis­cusses BT’s propen­sity “to be open and inclu­sive, and to try to bring the best from all the world, because we are only a small island here.”

Dur­ing the din­ner that fol­lowed, we indi­vid­u­ally heard about the company’s efforts to extend its open source mobile plat­form and other efforts that BT is work­ing on.

You’ll hear a cou­ple of ques­tions from uber-blogger Robert Scoble in the video. This was my sec­ond video done with a Flip Ultra.

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