Upcoming speaking engagements
Update: I added SeedCamp and Mastermundo.
I will be speaking at these great conferences in the coming months:
- SeedCamp (Sept. 15-19)
I am a proud mentor and advisor for Seedcamp, an intensive week long event held in September in London targeted at young entrepreneurs from across EMEA. - PicNic 08 (Sept 24-26)
Amsterdam’s craziest conference is back, featuring an intense program with tons of people I look forward to meet like Clay Shirky and Ethan Zuckerman. That will also be an occasion to have a chat with former Lift speakers like Ben Cerveny or Rafi Haladjian. - Mastermundo Creative Conference (Sept. 27)
Mastermundo is an intriguing conference organized in The Hague by the Royal Academy of Arts. - World Women’s Forum (Oct. 21-23)
I am honored to be one of the few men invited to speak at this big Seoul event that will welcome speakers like Mia Farrow or Maud Fontenoy around the theme of “Women as Agents of Change: Building a Diverse and Sustainable Future”. I will share my experience of building a business using social technologies with women entrepreneurs of the world. - International Congress & Convention Association Congress (Nov. 4)
I will be part of a session on 21st Century Events where I will present to fellow conference organizers how Lift is using new technologies to organize an original and unique event. - EIBTM (Dec. 2-4)
As part of the annual EIBTM technology debate, I will sit down with Corbin Ball (CMP, Corbin Ball Associates) to discuss how social networking sites and virtual worlds can be used in the meetings industry.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Granted we’re a few months off yet, but I’m interested in what you think you’ll be saying / discussing with Corbin at EIBTM on social networking and virtual world usage for the meetings industry?
July 30th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I’ll share my experience of working with these tools in the case of Lift, and add a few predictions on where things are going in the near future. Points I can think of:
- social networks are not a must do, they make sense in some cases, don’t in other, and can easily backfire
- social networks = not the whole public despite general perception
- talk about the trade off between attention given to an action and returns (don’t expect user generated content to be a magic formula, and people have an almost surreal capacity to detect bulkmailings and not pay attention to them)
- general crisis on attention = different possibilities, things that used to work don’t anymore
- general crisis on accounts (don’t expect users to register on your community)
- tension between social network’s model (=keep audience captive) and organizers needs
- what worked / didn’t work for Lift
- the time needed to have a community understand some mechanisms (like proposing presentations, voting, etc)
August 29th, 2008 at 5:37 am
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