From the category archives:
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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TweetMarc Fontein (linkedin, twitter) is one of the co-founders and organizers of the prosperous Mobile Monday Amsterdam, the local chapter of the broader Mobile Monday (MoMo) organization, that gathers professionals from the mobile industry or who’s profession makes them involved with mobile technologies (during the last decade the irruption of the internet on mobile phones [...]
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TweetNext Thursday May 6th I’ll be holding a workshop on The Future of Conferences at the prestigious Lift Conference in Geneva. The idea is to develop, together with the attendees, strategies and actions to assess the dynamics that are affecting events and provoke changes that will create an amazing event experience. From the description on [...]
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TweetMonique van Dusseldorp (web, twitter) has been working as programmer of seminars and conferences on creativity, innovation, ICT and future developments for the last 20 years, launching several successful events like Picnic and TEDxAmsterdam by bringing together international and Dutch audiences and speakers. During the following video, Monique describes the changing nature of events and [...]
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TweetLaurent Haug (blog, twitter), French entrepreneur and founder of the LIFT Conference (Switzerland, France, Korea), thinks there are three main directions that are influencing the Future of Conferences: conferences need to be more porous, come back to the moment and decentralize. These phenomenon move in separate directions or axis and pose extremely relevant challenges to [...]
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TweetGary Vaynerchuck (or garyvee for short) is like a nuclear powered volcano with clear ideas: if you start him up on one topic he will erupt in honest, direct and rather colorful descriptions of what he thinks of it, and you will hardly be able to regain control of him. That is probably why so [...]
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TweetI recently met Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer Worldwide for Eastman Kodak, at the 140Conf in London and we talked about his vision on The Future of Conferences. Jeffrey, who was one of the keynote speakers during PICNIC ’09, is the rare kind of corporate executive that has embraced social media into his regular business [...]
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TweetYesterday I met Peter van Lindonk, director of the PINC Conference during a workshop and I asked him for his vision on the Future of Conferences. “The human size of conferences will be emphasized more and more and more [...] the eye to eye, arm to arm, hand to hand meetings will be far more [...]
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TweetI met Bruce Sterling, famous science fiction author and media guru, last month in Turin (Italy) during a very interesting event; I Realize. After his participation to a panel discussion on cities, movement and interaction, we talked about the future of conferences, Italy’s ability in pulling out big events and other interesting conferences like ARS [...]
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