Gary 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 [...]
Yesterday 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 important” [...]
Following his series of videos started here, Robin Good further explores what in his opinion is going to be theĀ future of conferences: engaged audiences and extended events.
Robin pitches two ideas for events to move from the classic (and rather obsolete) top-town broadcasting model, where the attendees are just a passive observer, to a participative [...]
I 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 Electronica [...]
I asked the famous online entrepreneur Robin Good from Master New Media his opinion on what is going to be the future of conferences.
In this first part he describes how a conference is going to be “extended”:
Starting way before the physical event (if there is one) and lasting a long time after the event is [...]