Comments on: 2012 conferences: Social media, tech & marketing

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:25:53 +0000

Another conference coming up: CloudBeat 2012, Nov. 28-29, 2012, in Redwood City, Calif.: http://cloudbeat2012.com/

By: mwebafrica

mwebafrica — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:35:07 +0000

Africa’s premier mobile conference, Mobile Web in Africa, returns to Johannesburg November 27th through 29th. Following three sell-out successes, the 2012 edition once again features a day dedicated exclusively to mobile marketing and represents the industry’s foremost opportunity to share knowledge and do business.

Industry experts from companies including Vodacom, MXit, 2go, M&C Saatchi Mobile, Nedbank, Prezence Digital, biNu, Huawei, and Google will share insights on mCommerce, mobile for social good, the rapidly evolving mobile app ecosystem, the feature phone versus smartphone debate, enterprise mobility and the impact of mobile social media.

With contributors from the UK, Australia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria and over 200 attendees from across Sub-Saharan Africa this is an event not to be missed.

For more information on Mobile Web in Africa 2012 visit http://www.mobilewebafrica.com or send an email to [email protected]. A limited number of half price tickets are available for start-ups and developers.

By: SLCDEV

SLCDEV — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:17:14 +0000

Writing to let everyone know about our upcoming SLCCamp in NYC Oct 20-21 where participants will impact education and connect with other teachers and developers passionate about edtech. An SLC Camp is a combined Codeathon and Tagathon, where teachers and developers come together to create usable applications for K-12 Education. For more information about SLC Camps, visit http://dev.slcedu.org/slc-camps and follow us on Twitter @slcdev<http://www.twitter.com/slcdev>.

These events are informal conferences where teachers, students, administrators, and developers can come together to contribute, discuss, share and problem-solve, and are an important tool of open source code development. We would love for you to share this opportunity with your community of professionals. Come meet us to find out more about how the SLC technology can benefit you and your students.

There will be 2k bounty opportunities at the camp for the best apps designed for our SLC NYC Camp and Codeathon – check out our checklist here http://dev.slcedu.org/bounty/camp-bounties-checklist to get ready before the camp! We’ve created example open-source applications to jump start your development on the SLC Data Store. You can find our api wrappers here: http://dev.slcedu.org/getting-started/projects

By: arrowheadnmsu

arrowheadnmsu — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:30:26 +0000

The UAS Technical Analysis and Applications Center (TAAC) invites you to join us for our 14th annual conference to be held December 4 – 6, 2012, at the Tamaya Hyatt Regency, located on the Santa Ana Pueblo, north of Albuquerque, NM. The conference will begin with an evening reception on December 3, and features three days of dynamic technical speakers, panelists, and hot topic sessions on: airspace access (December 4), defense and national security (December 5), and classified briefings (December 6). The format is energetic and fast paced: With 40+ talks over the course of three days (to say nothing of the evening events), our 2012 program offers something for everyone.
PAST DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Dyke Weatherington, Deputy Director, Unmanned Warfare, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and LogisticsLt. Gen. Richard Zahner, Deputy Chief of Staff, G2, U.S. ArmyMaj. Gen. Michael Kostelnik (Ret.), Assistant Commissioner, Office of Customs & Border Protection Air and Marine, Department of Homeland SecurityRear Adm. William E. Shannon, III, Program Executive Officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, U.S. NavyLt. Gen. Larry James, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force
UAS TAAC 2012 Conference: http://taac.psl.nmsu.edu/

By: shahzebelahi

shahzebelahi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:25:33 +0000

This new two-day conference is aimed at forward-thinking business leaders who turn the opportunity that comes from becoming a social business into measurable business success. Taking place alongside Lotusphere 2012, the conference showcases the strategic value and tangible impact that being social can have on your business and how social business solutions and collaboration concepts can deliver real return on investment. Through sessions led by industry and IBM leaders, dialogue and idea sharing, session leaders discuss the why, what and how of using social, mobile and cloud technologies can enable people to improve their business performance.http://www.veriqual.com/ios-apps/

By: MikeGelphman

MikeGelphman — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:38:03 +0000

Compute Midwest is an emerging tech conference + hackathon in Kansas City. On November 9th, Tech leaders, startup founders and innovators will share their vision of the future. Speaker lineup includes Jason Hoffman – founder of Joyent, Scott Chacon – CIO of Github, Ben Milne – Founder of Dwolla, and Naithan Jones – founder of Aglocal. November 10th – 11th includes a hackathon for developers & designers.

See more info at http://www.computemidwest.com

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:15:09 +0000

This event came in as well:

The Iasa World Summit 2012 is the must-attend event of the year for all IT architect professionals. Join us for two days of interactive sessions, illuminating presentations, case studies and dynamic round table discussions presented by your peers. The Iasa World Summit is open to Iasa members and non-members alike. The conference will take place December 6th – 7th. Iasa training courses and certification exams will also be offered during the week of the conference.

Topics include:
•             Cloud computing
•             Enterprise Architecture
•             Software Architecture
•             Business Architecture
•             Infrastructure Architecture
•             Information Architecture
•             Best Practices
•             Case Studies
•             Big Data
•             Mobile
•             Security
•             Women in IT

By: LindsayStevens

LindsayStevens — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:29:23 +0000

There is the Social Edge Summit on October 16th in San Francisco. http://socialedgesummit.com/

The Social Edge Summit (@sesummit) is a bi-annual conference held on the West Coast discussing the state of digital innovation around the evolution of increasingly sophisticated social technologies. The summit uncovers new ways to discover, share and highlight the latest digital trends and ideas.

The Social Edge Summit brings together well-recognized industry professionals and makes them accessible to conference participants. Speakers are chosen for the innovative, progressive thinking that they and their companies bring to the digital space.

Established to offer key insights for attendees, the Summit programming is built around the topics that are crucial for creating and implementing creative digital marketing strategies, practices and campaigns in our current environment.

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:27:57 +0000

Interesting! Cape Town isn’t on our usual radar screen so thanks for letting us know!

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:26:16 +0000

@jasonkeath Good to know! Thanks for sharing the West Coast event, Jason.