MindTrek 2009, the 13th International Digitial Media and Business Conference is coming up in Tampere, FINLAND, from Oct 1st & 2nd. Registration is now open! Don't miss your chance to secure your place at MindTrek 2009!
Register here: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/registration
MindTrek is the leading Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0. At MindTrek you will see the newest trends, innovations, revolutionary business phenomena and hear insights from the most high-spirited visionaries.
Last year the conference gathered together over 800 people from 32 countries, with around 150 international visitors.
The conference brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and economy, to technology.
The conference programme is available at http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/programme
Keynotes this year: Chris Messina (Flock, FireFox, OpenID, Open Web Foundation, BarCamp & more), David Coleman (Collaborative Strategies), Adam Greenfield (Nokia), Pekka Himanen (renowned philosopher and researcher of the information age, Helsinki Institute of Interactive Technology/ University of Oxford) and Jyri Engeström (Google)!
Don't forget the Academic MindTrek Conference (Sep 30th - Oct 2nd) where a selection of high-level papers in the fields of social media, digital games and ambient and ubiquitous media will be presented and awarded. Keynote Miguel Sicart of IT University Copenhagen will also speak and there will be two interactive games tutorials on the Friday for all those game developers out there!
The detailed academic conference programme can be found here:
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/academic/programme
An exciting selection of MindTrek partner sessions will also be held on Sep 30th. Check them out here:
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/partnersessions
Karen Thorburn
Friday 11 September 2009 14:09
