Tweet On Tuesday December 7th 2010 a glocal “Linchpin Gathering” took place in several spots around the world. I had arrived to Paris that same morning on my way to Le Web and I needed a plan for the night. The event was inspired by Seth Godin’s book Linchpin and the goal was to meet [...]
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TweetThe Mediamatic Sensor Fest took place on November 23-25 2010 in Amsterdam and was all about applying sensor technology to art, social media, health and new developments with a particular focus on interactive installations using RFID tags. The event consisted of three evenings (from 8 to 11pm): IkSentric, an exhibition dedicated to show the RFID [...]
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TweetThis article is about some things we achieved during PICNIC that I’m particularly fond of. We made several things right and probably as many other wrong, but I the end it’s those fun, creative and innovative achievements done with the team that I cherish the most. Big disclaimer: I’ve been the Marketing Manager of PICNIC [...]
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TweetI had an interesting chat with Matt Locke (Web, Twitter, Linkedin), Head of Crossplatform at Channel 4, during the New Media Days Conference in Copenhagen and he told me about a very interesting event he’s organizing called The Story Conference (Web, Twitter, Plancast, Lanyrd). The Story is all about “people who tell stories in interesting ways”, [...]
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TweetToday at the New Media Days Conference (Web, Twitter, Facebook) in Copenhagen, Kevin Kelly (Web, Wikipedia, Twitter) delivered a very interesting keynote on the characteristics of the “new media” environment and its opportunities for Media companies, be it old or new ones. Kelly, who has just published a book titled “What technology wants”, focused on [...]
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TweetOn Friday 5 November 2010 the first Frontiers Concert took place in Milan. The “concert” is a new format of the Frontiers of Interaction universe (disclaimer: I’m the Conference Director of Frontiers) planned as a meeting of great minds, including guest speakers Stewart Brand (Wikipedia) and Bruce Sterling (Wikipedia, Twitter), live music to set the [...]
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TweetThe Frontiers of Interaction team (of which I’m the Conference Director) presents a new event format — The Concert. It will take place on November 5, 2010 and the evening program features a presentation by Stewart Brand (of The Whole Earth Catalog and The Clock Of The Long Now fame), a music performance by Kalweit [...]
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TweetThe 7th edition of This Happened… Utrecht (web, twitter, hashtag: #thutc, videos, photos) took place on October 4 2010 at the Theater Kikker in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The event was organized by Alexander Zeh, Kars Alfrink and Ianus Keller. The Utrecht edition is a satellite of the event founded in 2007 in London by Chris [...]
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TweetOn September 30 2010, TEDxTransmedia (web, twitter, facebook) took place at the Radio Télévision Suisse building in Geneva, Switzerland. Organized by a team from the European Broadcasting Union led by Nicoletta Iacobacci (interview), the event was originally planned for April 2010 but had to be postponed due to the ash cloud generated by the Icelandic [...]
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Tweet 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 – [...]
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