Ready to Reboot?
The date had been tentative for a couple of months now, but a couple of weeks ago Thomas made it definitive and announced the theme for Reboot9 (May 31st & June 1st, Upcoming). It’s going to be “Human” which contrasts with the technology as much as it doesn’t. It’s all about humans after all.
Reboot last year was a great experience and I look forward to repeating that meeting with familiar and new people and learning a lot both in the program and outside of it.
I already registered for Reboot9 some weeks ago before I graduated. Now I’m just looking for some accomodation and I’ll probably book my flight to Copenhagen in the next few days.
The Reboot site is completely renewed this year with an implementation of AnyMeta enabling social networking to support the event. My profile is still work in progress but so is most other stuff. It is cool that relations, proposals, votes and similarities can be built in the next months before the conference.
AnyMeta is a Mediamatic product which they are looking to extend to enable social networking interoperability. See the OpenCI page on the Reboot site.
The Next Web
It’s a bit of a pain to see Reboot9’s date collide with the date for the Next Web conference (June 1st). I attended the Next Web last year and the event and the subsequent party both were a blast.
(Picture by Erwin Boogert)
Last year the scene around web in Amsterdam already was quite hot and lots of people from all over attended. I met great people on and around the event and at the party later. I expect this year to be spectacularly bigger and busier with a great venue like Tuschinski and the scene being as hot as it is right now.
I would like to go to both, but given the choice I will be attending Reboot. Maybe Reinier will go and represent Four Starters.
Events
My event schedule has been cleared for most of last year but now that I’ve graduated I’m ready again to fill my schedule and maybe organize a couple of my own. Suggestions welcome.
