The Social Technologies Summit is the leading international conference that brings together 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers and technologists to explore the latest upgrade affecting today’s digital culture.

Pioneering ideas will be presented, which will transform the way you and your organisation operate, innovate and interact. Combining keynotes, critical debates, demonstrations and experiences with open space and participatory sessions, it is an engaging, critical and essential event to attend.

The themes for the conference this year include Environment 2.0, Digital Futures, Identity and Trust, Mobile and Semantic Web: Cultural Algorithms.

Keynote speakers include inventor of the term ‘social tools’ and leading thinker on the social web Stowe Boyd; Jamais Cascio, co-founder of Worldchanging.org on social media and the environment; Rachel O’Connell, VP People Networks at Bebo.com on identity and trust; Adam Greenfield, expert on next-generation mobile and human-friendly interfaces; and Tom Ilube, Davos advisor and CEO of Garlick, on shaping the way business and society prepare for the Semantic Web.

Other world renowned contributors include James Marriott from PLATFORM; Helen Aspell, Head of Digital at Equality and Human Rights Commission UK; Grammy-nominated data visualiser Aaron Koblin; Roland Harwood, Director of Nesta Connect; Stefan Agamanolis, CEO of Distance Lab; international artists working with web and locative technologies Christian Nold, Tapio Makela and Jonah Brucker-Cohen; Dave Griffiths/FoAM, organisers of the influential Luminous Green events; Lee Bryant founder of Headshift; and Ewan Mackintosh, educationalist and Digital Commissioner at 4IP.

http://www.socialtechsummit.org/

The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition is a new European forum dedicated to frontier research in future and emerging information technologies. Leading scientists, policy-makers, industry representatives and science journalists will convene over 3 days to discuss today’s frontier science, tomorrow’s technologies and the impact of both on tomorrow’s society.

Renowned keynote speakers are confirmed:
* Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University)
* Alain Berthoz (Collège de France)
* Henrik Ehrsson (Karolinska Institute)
* Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute)
* Viviane Reding (European Commissioner for Information Society & Media)
* Henry Markram (EPFL)
* Jeannette M. Wing (National Science Foundation)
* Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna)

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/

We’ve got amazing 20+ proposals for design of the festival. After long discussion, proposal by Lukáš Hájek was selected. We want to thank all the authors for participation!

Proposals are zipped here: Multiplace_2009_dizajn_navrhy.zip

Die Konferenz zu Blogs, sozialen Medien und die digitale Gesellschaft, veröffentlicht heute die erste Version des 3-tägigen Programms, das aktuellste Trends und den gesellschaftlichen Einfluss des Web2.0 beleuchten wird.

Unter dem Motto „Shift happens“ konnten die Organisatoren im dritten Veranstaltungsjahr international klangvolle Namen gewinnen, deren Beteiligung die qualitative Weiterentwicklung der re:publica belegt.

www.re-publica.de

EU session for creative industries.

www.forumforcreativeeurope.cz/