TechCrunch Disrupt (web) kickstarted it’s first event in San Francisco with Mike Arrington sporting a t-shirt with the words “unpaid blogger”, a clear reference to his noisy departure from TechCrunch . The show on stage is rather boring due to the abuse of the “fireside chat” format, actually meaning “the speaker does not want …
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The Conference (web), a media focused event organized by Media Evolution, took place in Malmo, Sweden, on August 24-25, 2011. Martin Thörnkvist (Program Director) and Yasemin Arhan (Project Manager) discuss the outcome of the event. Among other things, they talk about their biggest challenge, what was new and what comes next. The videos of the keynotes …
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If you’re into design, technology, innovation and world-changing stuff that still has to become mainstream, then PICNIC (web, twitter) is an event you shouldn’t pass (disclaimer: I worked for picnic as Marketing Manager for the 2009 and 2010 editions).
The Early Bird Ticket expires on July 1st, 2011
… so hurry up to get yours! …
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The seventh edition of Frontiers of Interaction (web, twitter, Facebook) took place in Florence, Italy, on June 20-21.
I’ve been a regular to Frontiers since 2009 and during 2010 I was its the conference director (had to leave the job in December 2010 because I no longer had the time to run two full conferences …
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I’m always surprised by the variety of interesting conferences taking all over the place, reinforcing my thesis that even though we’re hyper-connected digitally, there are more physical events taking place than ever (and we need them more than ever too).
My latest find through a tweet in my stream is the Buddhist Geeks Conference …
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I’m now in Austin, Texas, a city that morphs into a huge city-venue to host both the official and unofficial events around South by Southwest.
Today (March 11th) I’ll be speaking in the How to Rawk SXSW panel together with Christine Auten, jbrotherlove, Kris Krug, Mark Couvillion and Neil Petty. (I hope not to disappoint: my new …
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Last month, in London, 200 people turned out for Boring 2010, the first conference devoted to under-stimulation. The Wall Street Journal has a story about the conference—which included readings of paint color catalogs and lectures with titles like “The Intangible Beauty of Car Park Roofs”. The interesting thing, though, is that this conference really …
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Continuing with the interesting people I met at Le Web ’10 are Paddy Cosgrave, Daire Hickey and David Kelly, organizers of the Dublin based conference F.ounders. The event brings together about one hundred tech-company founders from the US, Europe and Asia, providing an opportunity for them to “meet and discuss issues” but also to …
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I love to see all these cool events reinventing the conference format to create new business and connections with a touch of fun and altruism Summit Series organizes invitation-only events “that connects top young minds and inspires a new generation of leaders to succeed in business and in life”. The next edition will …
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It’s clear that Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have righteously created what’s the “Number 1 Internet Conference in Europe”. If there is one particular characteristic to define Le Web (web, twitter, facebook, youtube) is that it is a huge networking machine, with the 2010 edition attracting around 3,000 attendees from 60 countries (mostly European …
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