Conference News: What I learned this week – April 28
In the Studio: At the 2016 INBOUND conference, the INBOUND Studio was created as an experiment where keynote speakers followed up their main stage talks with more intimate conversations on Facebook Live. Last week, the organizers of INBOUND have announced that they will be growing the Studio into a year-long video series on Facebook and YouTube. The first series of The INBOUND Studio will focus on “The Power of Humor,” and will feature Trevor Noah, Tig Notaro, Andy Borowitz, Steve Cody, and Lakshmi Balachandra.
VR goes Vertical: After hosting a successful five-city event tour in 2016, VR Voice, a membership-based media company focused on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, has decided to hold three full-day conferences in 2017, focusing on vertical markets that are using Virtual Reality in innovative ways. The series was created to fill the void of VR conferences on the East Coast. The first conference, VR in Healthcare will be held in Washington D.C. on 1 June, and is being organized in partnership with the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Next up will be VR in HigherEd, taking place in Boston on 10 August. Finally, on 12 September, VR in Real Estate and Construction will debut. For more info on the conferences check out the VR Voice website.
Speaking Opportunity: Cloud Foundry Summit Europe, taking place from 11-12 October in Basel, Switzerland, has opened its Call for Papers. They are inviting potential speakers to submit topic ideas “ranging from IoT and Cloud Foundry to enterprise case studies to cloud-native Java, Node, Go and other languages”. If you are interested in addressing an audience of more than 1,500 developers and cloud decision makers, submit by 23 June.
Lunchtime Learning: What do you get when you bring together experts in kids, media, games, learning, toys, play and technology? The Digital Kids Conference, of course! Hear interesting talks and case studies on how industry leaders are creating new toys and services that keep children engaged in our digital world. Stay educated and entertained with videos from the annual Digital Kids Conference and Summit.
Coming up Next: On 1 – 2 May, the Venture Beat GamesBeat Summit will gather publishers, developers, investors, and brand/entertainment industry executives in Berkeley, CA to discuss “how games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic.” More than 20,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 600 startups will converge in New Orleans next week when Collision Conference takes over the Big Easy from 2 – 4 May. The 8th edition of Health 2.0 Europe will also take place next week, exploring the latest innovations in health care. The Barcelona conference will cover topics such as patient-provider communication, consumer health, genomics, data analytics, and corporate wellness. And TiEcon, self-described as “the world’s largest entrepreneurship conference” will return to Santa Clara with a focus on the “hottest areas of innovation including machine learning, IoT, FinTech, security, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, software defined infrastructure, drones, digital health, and many more.”