A new world order has begun to dominate almost every aspect of our lives. From politics and the environment, to education, the media and the economy, organisations and individuals are changing the world, united by a passionate belief in openness and engagement, and driven by the immense power of the internet.
The Activate Summit - brought to you by the Guardian – is an exclusive one-day summit providing a unique gathering for leaders working across all sectors to share, debate and create strategies for answering some of the world's biggest questions.
Time:
All day event
Location:
Australia House,London, England
Description:
Exclusive CMS panel debate with Gartner, Econsultancy and the World Health Organization to discuss the future direction of the Enterprise Web Content Management marketplace, and how buying and usage patterns are set to change as the UK economy navigates its way through a recession.
The event will take place at Australia House in the heart of London's West End and space is limited to 150 seats. Entrance is free and the agenda will run from mid morning to mid afternoon.
Topics for discussion will include:
1.How to minimise risks during project evaluation, development and implementation.
2.The role of Open Source solutions in a highly value-conscious market.
3.How commercially licensed CMSs are set to evolve
4.How Open Source CMS models are developing to address enterprise functional and support requirements.
5.How best to evaluate, procure and implement an enterprise Web CMS.
Location:
Central London,London, England
Description:
Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and community.
Back for 2009, OpenTech promises a day of thoughtful talks and conversations with friends. One of the strands we'd like to see running through the day is "working on stuff that matters", whatever you work on.
This event's predecessors, in 2008 and 2005 were low cost, one-day conferences about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday electronics hardware. Before that was NotCon 2004, an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.
Location:
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Description:
The first and only web design conference for IT Professionals working in Higher Education. Join us and meet world renowned experts in the fields of usability, user centered design, CSS, AJAX and many others. Designers, Developers, and Project Managers will all be able to benefit from the content presented over the course of this busy day.
In addition to the formal presentations, you will have the opportunity to meet and interact with people building and designing web applications in all the same areas you do: Student Affairs, Faculty Issues, Administrative Procedures, and others. Ample networking and personal time at lunch and at the evening social will show you how others are facing the same issues as you.
Time:
8:00am
Location:
Millennium Broadway, New York City
Description:
Video has taken over the Web.
Ad-serving technologies are more sophisticated, while broadband penetration is at a near-saturation level. Over 25 percent of consumers said they regularly watch video online, and the top video aggregators disseminate millions of streams every day.
No wonder over a quarter of advertisers and marketers already use online video to market their products and services.
Video formats are more effective for marketers, and more lucrative for publishers. This immersive, one-day forum is for senior advertisers, marketers, publishers, and content providers who are using or considering this very fast-moving medium. Its aim is to educate, inform and provide a comprehensive overview of online video advertising innovations, tools, formats, strategy, metrics, and creative.
Time:
8:00am
Location:
New York City
Description:
Are you engaged in conversations with your customers? Are you leveraging those results to learn more about your customers? Are you optimizing your message and delivery in order to drive brand preference? These topics, along with other brand-building methods and digital media technologies and platforms will be discussed at ad:tech New York. From the high level overview keynotes to the performance focused workshops to the technologies showcased on the show floor – it's all here, under one roof. ad:tech... the business of modern marketing.
Time:
1:00pm
Location:
San Francisco, California 94108
Description:
Started in 2005, the SF city tour is perfect for Macworld Expo attendees that arrive on Sunday and are new to the city or just wanna get out of the hotel room and meet some very interesting people!
We usually have a crowd of at about 20 people. Wear proper shoes and plan to do some walking, as we make our way through the city on foot / cable car. We will take the longest journey to the Fisherman’s wharf via cable car.
This is the schedule:(All times are PM)
1:00: Apple Store (Meet and greet)
1:30: Walk to Union Square. Discuss history of Union Square and vibrant shopping district
2:00: Cable Car over to Fisherman's Wharf ($5 dollars)
3:00: Tour of Fisherman's Wharf, grab some clam chowder, take photos
5:00: Up to Coit Tower for a view of the city ($5 dollars)
6:00: Take the F line streetcar back to Apple Store ($1.50)
6:30: A quick walking tour around Moscone center.
7:30: Dinner. Location TBD.
Time:
1:00pm
Location:
Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile,540 North Michigan Ave.,Chicago, IL 60611
Description:
There are technological basics that can have big effect on how your site performs in the search engine listings. Learn what a search engine looks for and how to optimize your site technologically.
Topics covered will include:
301 redirects versus 302 redirects: what the differences are and when to use one or the other
Canonical URL issues in regards to the www and non-www versions of a web site
Dealing with multiple domains in a way that's best for search engines
robots.txt files: what it's for and when and how to use it
.htaccess files: how to update them in regards to 301 redirects and canonical urls
Dynamic urls: how the search engines view them and what you can do to optimize your dynamic web site
Time:
10:30am - 5:30pm
Location:
MoMA,New York City, New York 10019
Description:
MediaScope' presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience.The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation and digital art practices.
Time:
6:00pm
Location:
http://www.scdf.org.uk/news.php
Description:
If you are an architect, landscape designer, interior designer, fashion designer, graphic designer, web designer, photographer, product designer, furniture designer or just a design enthusiast come and join us at one of our regular networking events.
Nothing to pay apart from buying yourself a drink. Bring plenty of business cards!
You will be able to develop links with likeminded people, have a drink, be sociable and let the creative juices flow!
Time:
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1A1
Description:
This is DemoCamp Vancouver 07, aka the
Time:
6:30pm
Location:
Skills Matter,London, England EC1R 0BE
Description:
This is the latest in the series of free YDN Tuesday technical talks in London (on the first Tuesday of each month).
Location based services are a big thing right now. With everybody and their grandmother having GPS enabled handsets and services that find your location from your IP number or the wireless hotspot you use the web becomes much more personal and immediate than it was ever before. The issue is that there isn't a lot of content out on the web and new one being created that has quality geographical data in it. This makes it hard to match your location with relevant interesting pieces of information.
Yahoo Placemaker is a new service that fills this gap. You can feed it a text, a data feed or a web site URL and it returns the geographically relevant information in this text with hierarchical information, Latitude and Longitude and tells you where in the text it found this information.
In this session Christian Heilmann will explain Placemaker, show some implementations built with it and gives you step-by-step information on how you can use it using PHP or JavaScript.
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Description:
Want to know more about SNM (Social Network Marketing) this is not the MLM program, this is learning how to use website to generate more media buzz. Come learn the New Web 2.0
Time:
2:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
The Old Joint Stock,Birmingham, England B25NY
Description:
Join the West Midland web crowd for another social gathering to discuss all things web, your latest projects and possible plans for Geek In The Park 2009.
Time:
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Jericho Tavern,Oxford, England
Description:
he geek nights are a way for local web developers, designers, programmers, neophiles or geeks of any other stripe to get together, chat, drink and listen to talks on new technologies and innovations.
== Keynotes ==
Our confirmed keynote is:
* HTML 5 (tbc) by Bruce Lawson, Open Web Standards evangelist at Opera's Developer Relations team
== Microslots ==
These are five-minute "lightning" talks that anyone can volunteer for. They're easy to do: pick something that excites you, or a project you've worked on that you think might be of interest; then talk to a friendly audience for just five minutes with a handful of slides. Submit your microslot and we'll see you on the night!
Confirmed keynotes:
* Happy To Help: a social search utility, by Peter Ferne
* GeoQR: Geotagging Video with QRCodes, by Ben Ward
* Dorkbot Oxford, by Mike Harris
== Microslot ideas ==
Want something explained? Someone out there must know... maybe a microslot would help! Why not submit your idea for someone else's microslot?
Location:
Wayne State University,Detroit, Michigan
Description:
The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.
Time:
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description:
Ever wondered who you were talking to on Twitter?
Come meet and mingle with @gcolony, @arj, @tomcummings, @smcleish, @mgerush, @mgilpin, @hharteveldt, @coreymathews, @forrester, and others.
Forrester will be hosting a Tweetup at Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Join us for snacks, cash bar, and a great time!
Location:
Wayne State University,Detroit, Michigan
Description:
The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.
Location:
Wayne State University,Detroit, Michigan
Description:
The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.
Time:
9:00am - 6:00pm
Location:
Future Inn Cardiff Bay,Cardiff, Wales CF10 4AU
Description:
This is the second WordCamp UK - an informal annual gathering of WordPress publishers, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom.
Location:
Wayne State University,Detroit, Michigan
Description:
The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.
Time:
9:00am - 6:00pm
Location:
Future Inn Cardiff Bay,Cardiff, Wales CF10 4AU
Description:
This is the second WordCamp UK - an informal annual gathering of WordPress publishers, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom.
Location:
Oxford Playhouse,Oxford, England
Description:
Four years after the first gathering, TEDGlobal returns to Oxford for a now-annual event. Join us next summer for four days of inspired thinking that goes beyond the obvious, delivering vital insight into the hidden forces shaping our future.
About the program: When we look around us, there are things we can observe: Buildings. People. Nature. And then there are things that run unseen through our lives. These hidden forces -- social conventions, biological links, cultural frameworks, coded meanings, complex processes, creative impulses, scientific speculations, software, networks -- are the connective tissue that binds societies together and the engines that propel organizations forward. When illuminated, they offer vital insights into our relationships with one another and our world.
The TEDGlobal program is designed to explore and make visible the substance of things not seen.
Location:
Oxford Playhouse,Oxford, England
Description:
Four years after the first gathering, TEDGlobal returns to Oxford for a now-annual event. Join us next summer for four days of inspired thinking that goes beyond the obvious, delivering vital insight into the hidden forces shaping our future.
About the program: When we look around us, there are things we can observe: Buildings. People. Nature. And then there are things that run unseen through our lives. These hidden forces -- social conventions, biological links, cultural frameworks, coded meanings, complex processes, creative impulses, scientific speculations, software, networks -- are the connective tissue that binds societies together and the engines that propel organizations forward. When illuminated, they offer vital insights into our relationships with one another and our world.
The TEDGlobal program is designed to explore and make visible the substance of things not seen.
Location:
Oxford Playhouse,Oxford, England
Description:
Four years after the first gathering, TEDGlobal returns to Oxford for a now-annual event. Join us next summer for four days of inspired thinking that goes beyond the obvious, delivering vital insight into the hidden forces shaping our future.
About the program: When we look around us, there are things we can observe: Buildings. People. Nature. And then there are things that run unseen through our lives. These hidden forces -- social conventions, biological links, cultural frameworks, coded meanings, complex processes, creative impulses, scientific speculations, software, networks -- are the connective tissue that binds societies together and the engines that propel organizations forward. When illuminated, they offer vital insights into our relationships with one another and our world.
The TEDGlobal program is designed to explore and make visible the substance of things not seen.
Location:
Oxford Playhouse,Oxford, England
Description:
Four years after the first gathering, TEDGlobal returns to Oxford for a now-annual event. Join us next summer for four days of inspired thinking that goes beyond the obvious, delivering vital insight into the hidden forces shaping our future.
About the program: When we look around us, there are things we can observe: Buildings. People. Nature. And then there are things that run unseen through our lives. These hidden forces -- social conventions, biological links, cultural frameworks, coded meanings, complex processes, creative impulses, scientific speculations, software, networks -- are the connective tissue that binds societies together and the engines that propel organizations forward. When illuminated, they offer vital insights into our relationships with one another and our world.
The TEDGlobal program is designed to explore and make visible the substance of things not seen.
Time:
10:00am - 6:00pm
Location:
Maryland Science Center,Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Description:
SpaceLink is a high tech environment accompanied by high touch experiences. Dock the Space Shuttle. Construct a planetary rover. Surf the web. Watch NASA's latest launch countdowns and press conferences. Try on a flight suit. Track the orbits of satellites and more.
Time:
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Design & Technology Centre,Rozelle, New South Wales
Description:
A practical demonstration of the many online tools you can use (most of them free) to promote your business and your personal profile. Everything from photo albums, web calendars, web diaries (blogs), free web pages, discussion groups, online videos, email newsletters and e-books. Plus the cheapest way to do effective, targeted online advertising.
For consultants, designers, therapists, trades, trainers, cafes, restaurants, retailers and staff who have responsibility for the company's online marketing.
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