Frontiers 2010 social kick-off

Posted on 12/12/2009 by admin

Update: the kick-off was great; we had the whole venue packed with creative and innovative minds that provided us with great suggestions and suberbous content; we also had a nice chance to try the usage of Google Wave both to record what we said (thanks to Folletto and Dario for this) while people at home could interact “live” but it also let the discussion continue in the following days.
If you’re curious we have a bunch of photos on Flickr and – if you can speak Italian – here’s the answers of some of our guests to the question “What is Frontiers of Interaction for you?”. Enjoy.

Next Thursday, December 17th, at 6pm we’ve organized a social gathering to introduce the 2010 edition of Frontiers of Interaction conference (note: the conference on innovation and technology I co-founded and co-produce) in Milan (Italy) at the CreacityGate (here’s the map) provided by the nice guys at 2Lifecast.

How this edition is going to differ from the previous? how can we enhance the conference format? Which venue are we going to choose (and, most of all, in which city?) How could we strengthen interaction between speakers and the public?

We’re plenty with such questions; and the gathering will be a great chance to help us provide the proper answers.

If you’re in Milan next week don’t miss it!

The HUB Milano – opening soon

Posted on 18/11/2009 by admin

The Hub is a network of office spaces distributed in 12 cities over 4 continents and is

a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world (see the full about here).

I’ve recently had a nice chinese lunch with the founders of the Milan chapter with the personal aim to visit the place (I saw the photos online and the building was marvellous, I’m seriously considering to pay for a basic subscription in order to have a place to hang around in my creative moments) and to know the bright minded people who founded such an idea.

I also felt it would be interesting to create a link between Frontiers of Interaction – which bases its own existence on innovation – and The Hub – which exists for innovative people. And I’m happy we ended the lunch with a very cool idea of collaboration that’s going to be unveiled in the forthcoming weeks.

UX Conference in Lugano

Posted on 05/10/2009 by admin

Note: all outgoing links will lead you to pages in Italian.

I just received an update from Luca Mascaro (friend and deus ex machina behind the UX company Sketchin) about an interesting conference on User Experience that’s going to be held in Lugano (Swiss) next December, 3rd.

The UX Conference claims itself as “The first conference on the user experience with a look at the innovation in strategy & design, mobility, playability and agile methods”.

You might want to buy a ticket here using my personal discount code (I’ve checked with Luca, and he’s fine with this ) which gaves you access to a 10% discount (on the early bid price too):

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As strange as it could be (it’s a small World) 3 of the 4 Keynoters are close friends; you might also want to join them as a speaker submitting a paper for review.