Conference News: What I learned this week – October 26, 2018
KNOW Something New: KNOW Conference has grown so much over the past three years that it is moving to new digs in Vegas in 2019. But that is not all that is new at KNOW. When the next edition of the conference takes place on 24 – 27 March, the organizers will reveal a more robust agenda, including six tracks (trust & safety, digital identity, fintech & payments, regtech, innovation & technology, and security) and several new session formats: debates, lighting talks, workshops and fireside chats. Check out the agenda here.
The Next Chapter: The Next Web Conference has been held in Amsterdam’s Westerpark for more than a decade. Earlier this year, we covered some of the new stages they added to the 2018 programme. And now the conference organizers have announced that they will be relocating the conference in 2019. TNW2019 will be hosted at NDSM, Amsterdam Noord, increasing expected attendance to 17,500! According to the Events Director Wytze de Hann, “With a century’s worth of history, this former shipyard has been a cradle of Dutch innovation for the worldwide shipbuilding industry. I couldn’t think of a more fitting location to host TNW Conference on May 9 & 10, 2019.”
Speaking Opportunity: Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference provides a unique education experience that blends together the digital forensics and cybersecurity industries for collaboration between government and private sectors. Qualified industry professionals are currently invited to submit their session proposal to be considered as a speaker for the Myrtle Beach edition of Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, happening in 2019 at the Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes from 2 – 5 June. Speaker candidates should submit abstracts that are relevant, current, and reflect a learning objective from one of the following primary session tracks: Audit/Risk Management; Forensics; Investigations; and Information Security. All submissions are due by 17 December 2018 via their online form.
Lunchtime Learning: Assembling icons who have made the world “wired” over the last 25 years on one stage is no small feat. And yet that’s exactly what happened at the WIRED 25 Summit, which was held last month in San Francisco as part of the WIRED 25 Festival, a celebration of the publication’s quarter-century mark. It featured among its festival lineup a robot petting zoo (yes, you read that correctly), mixed reality studios, and “work immersion” visits at offices including Slack, Lyft, Airbnb, and HP. Most impressive though was WIRED 25’s knockout summit lineup: Jeff Bezos, Sean Parker, and Anna Wintour, not to mention Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and others. With so much star power, we recommend wearing sunglasses when checking out the video from their talks!
Coming Up Next Week: The future of the workplace continues its reign as a top conference theme in 2018. In New York this week, two events tackle this very issue: CNBC’s Productivity@Work (30 October) and Atlantic’s Future of Work conference (31 August). Productivty@Work is the second of CNBC’s three-part series on the future of work and will focus on how human capital is best deployed in the fourth industrial revolution targeting CIOs and CTOs, while the Atlantic’s event is designed for business leaders across industries, policymakers, and academia. Unbound Miami gets underway on 30 October. Hailed as a disruptive tech innovation hub, it reaches 5,000 attendees in sectors like fintech, adtech, AI, healthtech, eCommerce, and robotics. CHIME CIO Forum/Fall, which is held 30 October – 2 November in San Diego, offers a premier gathering of hospital and health system executives with ample opportunity for candid conversation. And on 30 October, Educause Annual Conference assembles over 7,000 higher education IT professionals for networking and idea sharing tailored toward individual attendee’s experience levels.