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In barely five weeks the 5th edition of the PICNIC Festival (aka PICNIC ‘10) will take place in Amsterdam and this is your chance to buy your ticket before they eventually go sold out. (read on to find a special benefit for you!)
PICNIC ‘10 brings you the opportunity to Redesign the World – through lectures, [...]
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On July 12-16 2010 TED Global took place in Oxford, UK. The main theme was “And Now the Good News” and it gathered about 700 attendees and more than 60 speakers on the main stage (not including side events).
This was my first “big” TED (so now I ain’t no TED virgin no more!) and in [...]
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Next June 3 and 4 Frontiers of Interaction will take place in Rome, Italy (disclaimer: I’m the Conference Director). This will be the 6th edition of the conference and it represents a rara avis in the Italian scenario.
I first got in contact with Frontiers during 2009 as a “regular” delegate (my review of Frontiers 2009). [...]
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On May 5-7 2010 Lift Conference (official hashtag #lift10) took place at the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland. Even if there were some ups and downs in the organizational aspects, Lift proved once more that the most relevant factor in a live event are the connections generated between people. As a [...]
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A new and exciting event has been launched in Rome: Brain Forum. “The idea is to create a sort of Davos of the brain (referring to the World Economic Forum of Davos, Ed.) or the Roma del Cervello in Italian” says Viviana Kasam, founder of Brain Forum and Brain Circle Italia, a non-profit organization that [...]
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Many of the current western-society’s goals and searches are based in ephemeral values like youth, esthetic beauty, money and status, neglecting an inevitable path that (almost) all of us will walk: aging. Matthias Hollwich, together with the Architectural Department of the University Pennsylvania, has created the New Aging International Conference to deal with the relationship between Aging [...]
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Laurent Haug, founder of Lift Conference presents Lift 10, that will take place May 5-7, 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland. The underlying theme of this year’s edition is “Connected People” as opposed to “Connecting People” (remember Nokia’s tagline?) as a play of words that wants to bring back the focus onto the people and the relationships [...]
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The TEDx format can be a powerful instrument for inspiration when applied to the right message, which is a key point I think most TEDx organizers often forget. The big brother TEDs (no pun intended) always have a polarizing theme to which most talks connect to, for example TED Global 2010’s one is “And Now the [...]
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The DLD team has just launched a new initiative: DLDwomen – The Female Decade. It’s an extension of the annual DLD Conference and “will gather an extraordinary group of over 50 international high profile speakers and 500 opinion-forming participants, both women and men, from the fields of digital, business, [...]
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I‘m leaving for the airport, destination Austin (Texas) for South By Southwest (SXSW). Probably one of the biggest festivals on technology (mostly web based), film and music, SXSW has been running since 1987.
This will be my first time attending and if there is something I can already report on is that the preparation process (decide [...]
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