Herb Kim, photo by Cubicgarden on flickr
The 2012 edition of Thinking Digital has a powerful roster of multi-talented speakers from the worlds of technology, media, science, industry and the arts.
Discover more about Herb and the conference after the jump!
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Marketing Guru Seth Godin is running a special event called Pick Yourself on May 16th in New York and he promises it has been especially conceived as a valuable in-presence gathering, with no digital distractions during the event nor live streaming, as the experienced has been conceived to work at its best physically, offline.
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Kevin Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, an online ticketing company, is on a mission to disrupt the ticketing industry by reducing the friction involved in organizing and attending an event. In this interview he shares some insights on what a great event should be and how they are helping event managers to organize and promote their events.
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Harald Neidhardt (Linkedin, Twitter, Tumblr) is quite a character, a curious mind by default, who created MLOVE and the MLOVE ConFestival, an innovative mix between a festival and a conference that today is having its first US edition in Monterey, California. The event also takes place in Harald’s native Germany (Berlin) and Japan (Tokyo).
MLOVE stands for the cross- pollination of Mobile with advertising, automotive, fashion, retail, many other industries and human behavior during as aspects of our day: Mobile becomes a remote control to our lives.
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Just in case you wondered what I’ve been up to since I came back from Texas: I’ve spent the last 3 weeks in Istanbul -Turkey- organizing TEDxSilkRoad (web, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest), the brainchild of Ferhan Cook. TEDxSilkRoad will take place on Wednesday April 11th at the beautiful Feriye Auditorium by the Bosphorus and will deal with the theme of “Borderless Creativity & Commerce”.
We’ll have local and international speakers (artists, professors, entrepreneurs and designers from companies like IDEO, MIT, American Museum of Natural History, Turkcell, Endeavor, Orange and others), a live music performance and a wearable tech Fashion Show by CuteCircuit.
Check out the full program here. The event will be live-streamed so keep an eye on the website for details.
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Iron Works, Official Texas BBQ
As an Advisory Board member of SXSW 2012 and a 3-times veteran of the event, the organizers interviewed me about what is the best “tool” to network with other attendees. SXSW was interested in stories about particularly serendipitous moments from past SXSW Interactive Festival that we have attended.
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For the last 5/8 years, the tech scene in London has been flourishing, with the Silicon Roundabout becoming the main hub for startups and other young companies. Oddly enough, the biggest tech events have been taking place somewhere else in Europe, with Le Web in Paris and The Dublin Web Summit (in Dublin of course) being two of the most important ones. Now these same companies and others are coming to London to capitalize on the startup boom.
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Actor Guy Pierce as Peter Weyland giving a TED Talk in 2023
Last Tuesday I was watching the live streaming of the first TED 2012 session when Chris Anderson introduced a TED Talk from 2023. The 3 minute movie is actually a well crafted promo of Ridley Scott’s upcoming movie Prometheus. The TED Talk is given by fictional character, Peter Weyland, and what was interesting about this video, apart of this being a clever and entertaining way to advertise a product, is that a presentation from 2023 looks just like 2012.
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Martin (twitter, blog) is the Program Director and Market Analyst of Media Evolution’s The Conference, taking place every year in Malmo, Sweden. A music expert and producer, he aims to evolve the media landscape by envisioning a bright future and creating a meeting place for the main industry players to gather and collaborate.
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There are several good guides for rookies and old-boys attending South by Southwest, which will bring back tens of thousands of participants to Austin, Texas, in a few weeks. These guides (this and this are pretty good) talk about general tips and while I’m getting ready for my third edition, I decided to compile a few tips for staying healthy during SXSW.
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