EComm America 2010: the preview
If you head over to the EComm website you will see a very solid lineup of speakers and companies for the upcoming 4/19 San Francisco edition… as usual, Lee has come up with a fantastic schedule. I’m quite looking forward to attend this year, and here are some of my favorite talks:
- The Future of P2P — Eric Klinker (@ericklinker), the CEO of BitTorrent is going to cover how peer to peer communications are bound to change how we think about computation. I am a HUGE fan of BitTorrent and peer computing, so I have high hopes to learn a ton. I have high hopes that he will build the case for how much innovation can be had in business models with this technology.
- Social Sharing 2.0 — Jonathan Rosenberg, the Chief Scientist of Skype, is focusing on how much more we can expect from collaboration and sharing in the upcoming months. I’m excited about his talk because I see incredible potential in what Skype can become in creative environments. And because for years I’ve believed that we can use social software for more than sharing baby pictures, to get real work done.
- How to destroy a $700bn industry for fun and profit — Martin Geddes. Why? Because he’s Martin Geddes, one of the most lucid thinkers in telecom. You don’t know about Martin? Check out this video for a taste.
- From distraction to real life — Kristian Simsarian of IDEO touches on another fascinating subject. Starting from the observation that technology today fosters distractedness, he wonders if it will be possible for new paradigms such as Augmented Reality to help us “be more present where we are”. Plus nothing like a good AI professor to make you imagine.
- And then, there’s Wednesday, all devoted to AR, a field of which I know very little, “like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get!”
Hope you can make it! Shoot me a line if you want to connect while in SF.
