re:publica is a wrap
This week I attended re:publica, Germany’s most relevant tech & society conference. I’ve been going since year 1 (2007) — not every year, and often not for the…
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Some thoughts after Mercator Forum
I’m on my way back home from Essen where I attended Mercator Forum, the foundation’s annual convening of its stakeholders, communities and grantee partners. This year it was…
Our upcoming RightsCon session
For the upcoming RightsCon, I’m co-hosting a joint session with Stiftung Mercator (who I work with) and European AI Fund (who I served as interim director for recently,…
Cognitive Cities, 10 Years Later
10 years ago exactly, a group of us gathered in Berlin for Cognitive Cities Conference, a 2011 event around the implications of smart cities that I was involved…
VR events, brand collabs, breaking physics, socially distant live events
After reading Monique van Dusseldorp’s most excellent new newsletter on the future of (hybrid) events, I re-watched this Travis Scott x Fortnite video from April 2020. At the…
S07E23 of Connection Problem: Good Things Fest
Note: This is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter in an attempt to both to make it easier to read this via RSS feed and to have this in…
Remote event success factors: Go niche, niche, niche!
For a while now, I’ve been collecting pointers about online event formats. After all, 2020 has seen the big zoomification* of conferences. * Note: I’m using “zoom” here…