Events

The Web 2.0 Expo is happening right now in New York. You can watch selected sessions streamed live from Web 2.0 Expo New York plus additional off-stage interviews and demos! Highlights from today’s schedule include:

Creating Tomorrow’s User Experience for Mobile Phones
Scalable CSS for Developers
Building Across the Social Web: The Implications of Facebook Connect, Google [...]

Attend a free, live webcast by Kirk Haines of O’Reilly Media - November 17th @ 1 pm PT
Tokyo Cabinet is a fast, synchronous key/value database library with support for several major languages, including Ruby.
The webcast will look at both its benefits and its problems, and work through several examples that demonstrate its capabilities, ease of [...]

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 10am PT - San Francisco | 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Fri, Nov 6th at 5am - Sydney | Fri, Nov 6th at 3am - Tokyo | Fri, Nov 6th at 2am - Beijing | 10:30pm - Mumbai
Presented by: Chris Dempsey, Joshua Robin (O’Reilly Media)
Duration: Approximately [...]

Sage North America, which provides business management software and services to more than 2.9 million small and mid-sized businesses in Canada and the United States, today announced CRM (customer relationship management) industry analyst Brent Leary will present Social CRM trends at Sage Summit, the company’s North American customer conference being held November 9-11 at the [...]

On November 17, 2009, the Nob Hill Masonic Center will open its doors to thousands of cleantech industry professionals for the Third Annual Cleantech Open Grand Expo & Awards Gala. The event will commence with an exposition floor filled with over 120 cleantech companies, followed by a series of demonstrations and business plan pitches from [...]

Augmented Reality in One Hour is a free, one-hour webcast taking place on Wednesday, October 14, 2009.
10am PT - San Francisco | 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Thu, Oct 15th at 3am - Sydney | Thu, Oct 15th at 2am - Tokyo | Thu, Oct 15th at 1am - Beijing | [...]

Today Cisco announced the winners of its “Think Inside the Box” Developer Contest. Launched last fall, the competition challenged application developers around the world to develop applications that run on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), which resides on the popular Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR).
Cisco launched this contest to encourage collaborative development through the [...]

Webcast on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
10am PT - San Francisco | 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Wed, Sep 30th at 3am - Sydney | Wed, Sep 30th at 2am - Tokyo | Wed, Sep 30th at 1am - Beijing | 10:30pm - Mumbai
Presented by: Nitesh Dhanjani
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
Cost: Free
In [...]

To encourage the creation of innovative applications for Intel Atom processor-based products, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Atom Developer Program for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers.
The program provides a framework for developers to create and sell software applications for netbooks with support for handhelds and smart phones available in the future. Through the [...]

Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media writes:
Ignites, where speakers get 20 slides and just 15 seconds a slide, have spread to almost 50 cities since starting in Seattle. Some of them are helped, sponsored, or coordinated by myself or other O’Reilly employees, but most of them are run by a local community. There are at least [...]

Check out this free, live webcast presented by Ben Rothke
Information Security and Social Networks, September 2nd at 10 am PT
This webcast will detail the significant security and privacy risks that social network create, and will also provide detailed guidance on ways organizations and individuals can use social networks in a safe and secure manner. After [...]

Join the folks from O’Reilly Publishing for the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, happening September 8th in Washington D.C.
24 innovators will show — in five minute, rapid style presentations, in one of six categories — concrete examples of Web 2.0 technologies increasing transparency, participation, collaboration, and efficiency in government.
Register now!

Architectural Model of the Capitol Building in [...]

Now more than ever, open source technology is the smart choice for navigating uncertain economic waters. In a competitive business environment, open source gives you the means to drive down costs while increasing system and staff efficiencies. OSCON 2009 is where you’ll find the latest information and new ways to connect with the growing community [...]

If you’re in or anywhere close to Portland, Oregon and you care about software development from a coder’s perspective, there’s a terrific (and FREE) event coming up on May 30th that you should definitely attend: Portland Code Camp 2009.
If you’re interested in learning from cool, smart people or if you have some area of code [...]

As you may have already read on the Microsoft Live Search Blog, a Will Code for Green contest has been initiated! A few minutes ago, @msngreen tweeted it. It’s all true — you have an opportunity to showcase your skills, improve the planet, and possibly win some dough (the spending kind, not the baking kind).
Are [...]

Not all Linux geeks shelter themselves in for the long winter. Some of us actually venture out to Expo events such as SCaLE 7x coming to LA, California. Some things of note should you opt to attend include:

SoCal Linux Expo Reprises SCALE University
Special Events
SCALE University
(Ignore the certificate error if you get one on Firefox, appears [...]

The fall conference season is upon us, and I’ll be off to Barcelona on the first of November for a week at the Microsoft TechEd Europe/Middle East/Asia conference. I’ll be joining my friend and colleague, Richard Campbell, there for the week. If by chance you’ll also be there, be sure to let me know ahead [...]

The world’s premiere DIY (Do-It-Yourself) event will be back in Austin on October 18th and 19th for round two. Last year, over 20,000 people from across the state, nation and beyond invaded Austin, Texas for the city’s first Maker Faire. This year, the event is coming back to the Travis County Expo Center and organizers [...]

Enjoy innovative, interactive learning in dedicated developer seminars and get your technical questions answered. All virtual and free from your PC.
Join the leaders in mobility intelligence at the virtual BlackBerry Technical Seminar on July 9th. From the comfort of your office, you can hear keynote speeches, see BlackBerry solutions in action, and visit the Exhibit [...]

In June I’ll be attending the Microsoft TechEd IT Pro Week in Orlando. the TechEd conference has been reworked into a two-week event this year, much like they have done in Europe in the past. The first week is focused on developers and the second week on IT professionals.
I’ll be working that second week with [...]