TweetDavid Rowan (Blog, Twitter) is the Editor of Wired UK, a fellow runner and conference junkie. He attends several top conferences every month both as attendee and speaker/moderator, so we met at his office in London to discuss what makes a great conference. According to David “the key to a well organized conference is curation [...]
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TweetThe world of advertising is rapidly being transformed by new ways of engaging with consumers through novel storytelling over different platforms (on and off-line). I firmly believe that conferences should follow a similar trend in order to upgrade their experiences. To learn more about how to do this I met Dan Hon (blog, Twitter, Linkedin), [...]
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TweetIt’s no big news that I don’t like speaker panels in conferences. Often it’s a way to fit several people on stage and almost always a big waste of time for the attendees, as hardly any real content or interesting discussion comes out of them. In this article, famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Suster [...]
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TweetLast June I met Jay Cousins (twitter), a “maker” and member of the collective Open Design City based in the Betahaus in Berlin, who is experimenting with home-cooked bioplastics and different products that can be derived from them. Jay and his group follow the philosophy of Open Design*. At DMY 2010, the international design festival [...]
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TweetDuring the 2010 edition of the Glastonbury Festival a huge panoramic photo was taken, including more than 70,000 attendees. Now people have the possibility to tag themselves and their friends on it, creating a wonderful archive of the event. Wouldn’t it be useful (& fun) to do something similar at your next conference to document [...]
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TweetVenues and event organizers work in a symbiotic status of mutual need but often engage in conflicting relationship because they don’t recognize each others needs. Yves Cretegny, now CEO of Lift Conference and in the past as CTO and CFO of Geneva-Palexpo (an important venue in Switzerland) thinks that in order to create a win-win [...]
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TweetThe web is all about customization and the Next Conference 2010 in Berlin offers to it’s attendees to make a personalized T-shirt of the event by integrating an online design tool from custom apparel printer Spreadshirt (I’ve used Spreadshirt in the past and their products are high quality and durable). The Next10 website holds an [...]
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TweetLast week I attended the SpinAwards after-event Party in Amsterdam and I wanted to share this nice idea: they used a black wristband (think of spongy tennis-like ones) as the ticket that granted you access to the party. Once you had it on your wrist you could move freely and get in and out of [...]
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TweetConference delegates, especially in tech events, are nowadays armed with at least one of the following: a mobile phone or smartphone, a laptop, a digital photo or video-camera and – soon soon enough- a tablet (welcome iPad!). The elevated number of gadgets per capita in use at an these events makes it a common scene [...]
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TweetHow do you design an experience for experience designers? Interaction10 was the third edition of an annual conference hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) that gathered the interaction design community to connect, educate, and inspire each other. Jennifer Bove, co-chair of Interaction10 together with Bill DeRouchey, describes the process of designing the experience of [...]
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