Archive for London
by Imran Ali
August 7, 2008 at 6:11 am · Filed under Conferences, Events, Events + Conferences, London
London continues to be a hotbed of mobile innovation with the announcement of Ryan Carson’s Future of Mobile conference, due to take place from 17-18th November later this year
The Carsonified crowd have quickly established themselves as running great, low cost, high value conferences in digital mobility, web, design and advertising.
The sessions are themed around openness, operating systems, launching apps, ‘ideas & tactics’ for breaking through industry barriers. It actually looks looks pretty pragmatic, rather than theorerical with a slight bias (and rightly so) towards entrepreneurs and hackers.
Early bird pricing still seems to be in effect, sodelegates can registered for as little as £145/$282. You can find out more about sessions, speakers and workshops at http://future-of-mobile.com/2008/london/
by Imran Ali
March 25, 2008 at 8:09 pm · Filed under Design, Events, London, Olympics, UK
I was recently invited to an intriguing workshop…unfortunately I can’t attend, but here’s another sign of London’s role as a global hothouse for mobile innovation.
Next Thursday, Living Labs Europe is holding a half-day creative workshop on the development of mobile urban services for the 2012 Olympics, to be hosted in London. The Flaneurs: The network is the city event will bring together around 50 participants during the afternoon of Thursday 27th March.
The group’s objective is to explore interaction, experience and service design with a view to develop applications or services that may be showcased in the period leading up to and including the 2012 Olympics; the ideas and concepts which emerge from the workshop will be circulated amongst the industry to inspire others to conceive of new opportunities.
There’ll be a bunch of speakers interspersed throughout the workshop, most notably Orange’s Neil Churcher. Though I left Orange just as Neil began his role there, we collaborated during his previous role as the Academic Director of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. The work that the IDII students prepared for us was nothing short of inspiring and astonishing, on a par with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Programme or the MIT Media Lab.
For this reason alone, I can’t wait to see what Flaneurs comes up with - organiser Nico MacDonald has promised me some follow up insights following the workshop. The group looks incredible - I’m loving that fact that there are tech people, broadcasters, public transport officials, architects and designers in the same place - ace!
by Imran Ali
March 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm · Filed under Android, Chumby, Events, Google, London, Nokia, UK, Yahoo
London continues to be a hotbed of mobile hacking and innovation, with next month’s Over The Air, taking place on April 4th + 5th at Imperial College.
Organised by BBC Backstage’s Ian Forrester and Vodafone’s Daniel Appelquist and backed by Nokia and Google, amongst others, Over The Air will be playing host to around 450 attendees across 48 hours of hands-on hacking and code-campery!
iPhone, Openmoko, Android sound like they’ll be strong themes, but expect to see a bunch of sessions on user experience design as well as some masterclasses from handset and software companies, including Nokia, Microsoft, Adobe and Yahoo! on day one.
Head on over to the Over The Air blog for more information on the schedule and how to register…
