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A couple of panels in IT conferences
As Spring starts in Italy, conference season fires its engines. I’ve been involved in a couple of panels in the forthcoming weeks.
On Thursday, March 25th the fine guys at IDC have been so kind to invite me to join their “Virtualization & Cloud Computing Conference 2010” in the “IT on demand” panel; the conference is free for non IT companies; you should subscribe here.
I’ll be on another panel at the Business International organized “Unified Communication and Collaboration” Conference, that’s going to be held on April 22nd: “From dedicated social networks to workflows“; if you subscribe before March 26th the ticket costs 600 €.
I love public speaking, but I’m really mad for panels! They give you the chance for a real conversation (instead of a one way only speech) and I do love express my opinions especially if the contradict what’s just been said by others: I think this is the best way to entertain the public. On the subject I suggest you to read the Guy Kawasaki post “How to kick butt on a panel“.
Looking oversea
Six years ago, when I first started Frontiers of Interaction, I wouldn’t have imagined to start talking about exporting the conference abroad. Well.. now read what I’ve just posted on the conference blog:
The HUB Milano – opening soon
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.
