Archives for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Elgg International Conference coming to Brighton in December

By Rosie Sherry • Nov 10th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Lead Story

Elgg is an open source social networking application that has gone through a massive transformation in recent months. The good news is that not only did they recently launch a brand new and completely rewritten version of their social networking app (which is well worth a look), but they are bringing their international conference [...]



< head > over for the year…

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

So the < head > conference is over for this year, I suspect much to the relief of Aral!
However, being < head >, it’s not really over as all the talks are available (or will be soon). A big congrats to Aral and Team < head > for pulling off such a big [...]



< head > on QIK

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

Aral has been working hard on organising the <head> conference, infact you can see some of the stuff he has been up to on the Head QIK profile page.
Here is one video he took yesterday at The Werks.



< heads > up for the global, but local web conference

By Rosie Sherry • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

Earlier this year Aral announced the < head > web conference (previously Singularity) a global event where the speakers are brought to you. There is a great line up of speakers (too many to count!) including a good percentage of the local Brighton gang.
Whilst the web conference is global there will be local hubs, [...]



Help make BarCamp Brighton happen

By Rosie Sherry • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Lead Story

BarCamp Brighton the Third is happening this September 6-7th, again the weekend after dConstruct.
BarCamp is a free unconference event, it’s open to anyone to attend (subject to getting tickets!) and is funded completely by sponsorship. As much as we would love the world to turn around on love, money is needed to make these [...]



CFDevCon 2008 get your tickets early

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

CFDevCon 2008 is a 2 day conference happening on September 25-26 for people who would learn the latest in ColdFusion and web technology. Whilst the conference has a focus on ColdFusion it does also cover many other topics such Silverlight, SQL 2008, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and building web services with .Net.
It is [...]



dConstruct - tickets coming very soon!

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Conferences

I just had a peek at the dConstruct’s website and can’t believe it’s that time of year again!

dConstruct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those designing and building the latest generation of social web applications.

The theme ‘Designing the social web’ has been revealed in addition to the fact tickets are going on sale on [...]



Flash conference coming to a beach near you

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

Flash on the Beach, a 3-day conference focused on Flash technology, is back for the third year - promising to be better than ever. It’s happening from the 28th of September 2008, tickets are still available, but won’t hang around for long.
I’ve only heard good things about it which is definitely a good [...]



Social Innovation Camp – The Campers Come Home

By Leif Kendall • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

SiCamp, the conference that aimed to solve just some of society’s multifarious ills, ended last weekend after a frenzied few days’ work.
Enabled by Design was the winner of the £2000 prize. This is a great initiative to provide better aids to disabled people through a combination of modern design and an eBay-style second-hand market. 
Prison Visits, [...]



Singularity calls for sponsors

By Leif Kendall • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

Singularity, the upcoming web conference, has put out a call for sponsors.
Click here to get behind what promises to be a sea change in conferencing.