Interrelativity

Category: Conferences and Workshops

  • Business Plans and Angel Investors

    I attended two extremely helpful — and mutually reinforcing — entrepreneurial events last Thursday: a free (!) Business Plan Writing workshop offered through the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) and a seminar on "An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Angel Investing: Plan, Present and Negotiate" offered through the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest.  The former provided some…

  • Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies

    A rather early announcement on the conference website: In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Today, such terms as virtual community, blogging, podcasting, and smart…

  • NWEN Entrepreneur University 2005: Passion, Endurance and Speed

    Last year, Entrepreneur University 2004 provided my first glimpse into the world of entrepreneuria.  I wasn’t sure I was going to attend again this year, since I know so much more about that world now [I note, somewhat sarcastically].  But I’m glad I went to EU 2005, as I learned many new things, relearned some…

  • Meeting Industry Summit: Climbing, Relating, Stategizing

    I attended the Meeting Industry Summit at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle on Thursday.  It was, as one might expect from an event run by meeting professionals (primarily from the local chapters of PCMA and MPI), well-planned, well-organized and very worthwhile. In the opening keynote, Sue Ershler shared her approach of…

  • Frontchannels, Backchannels and Sidechannels at CSCW 2004

    CSCW 2004 was an engaging experience along numerous dimensions. In addition to an interesting collection of papers, panels and keynotes presented in the frontchannel(s), we had WiFi coverage and designated IRC channels throughout all the sessions. In one session, we projected the IRC window onto the main presentation screen, moving the backchannel toward the frontchannel,…

  • Entrepreneur University 2004

    I attended Entrepreneur University 2004 today, a daylong workshop at the University of Washington sponsored by the Northwest Entrepreneurial Network (NWEN).  Lots of interesting and inspiring presentations and discussion, much of it emphasizing the importance and value of passion and emotion in the success of a venture. 

  • A Chat-Augmented Conference

    Jun Rekimoto gave the opening keynote at CHI 2004 last week (I hope to post more on other CHI-related topics in the near future). Among the interesting highlights from his portfolio of projects was a chat tool used to augment a conference (the annual Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software in Japan) since 1997. One…

  • “Living Labs” keynote at UCSD

    I’ll be giving the keynote this Friday at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Review. The theme is "Living Labs" and while I will, of course, be talking primarily about our experience with proactive displays at UbiComp 2003, I’ll be starting off by emphasizing the committment of Intel Research to the concept of living…

  • UbiComp 2004

    An updated Call for Participation was sent out in an email message today for the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004) to be held in Nottingham, UK, September 2004. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond…