Announcing the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, Research Report and Month of Special Coverage
Today ReadWriteWeb is excited to announce our very first event, as part of a month-long engagement with one of the most important trends changing the way the internet works - the rise of the Real-Time Web.
We're kicking off a series of inter-related projects that will culminate with the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It's a 1-day event that will bring together some of the smartest minds doing real-time work for an industry-changing, face-to-face conversation. Throughout the next month there will be something for everyone, too, even if you can't make it to the Summit.
ReadWriteWeb is an industry leader in covering the changes the web is going through as it becomes a real-time experience. We're excited to leverage that expertise and help our community of readers and supporters grow our collective knowledge about the topic together through the following initiatives.
The Summit
We're hosting a day of interactive conversations about the real-time web at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on October 15th. We've partnered with professional facilitator Kaliya Hamlin, a web-industry veteran from the bleeding edge of identity standards, who will facilitate the creation of the day's agenda in real-time.
Along with Kaliya, ReadWriteWeb Founder and Editor Richard MacManus from New Zealand, RWW COO Bernard Lunn from New York, and myself, will convene a gathering on that day of smart people with diverse experiences doing real-time work. We'll tackle some of the biggest questions our industries face as the Web undergoes this fundamental shift.
This isn't going to be talking heads, on-stage sales pitches or stale presentations that aren't as good as the conversation in the halls. This is going to be a participatory gathering of people engaging with the real-time web and responding to the most pressing issues and opportunities.
A selection of the topics we expect to see discussed include:
* The potential and pitfalls of real-time for social networking, media, financial services, humanitarian work and political advocacy.
* How will ubiquitous real-time information delivery change the web in the future? What will it make possible? How will it change user expectations?
* How can real-time information overload be dealt with, technically and culturally?
* How can small organizations use the real-time web to challenge market incumbents? How can market incumbents continue to thrive in a real-time environment?
Register Today
Registration for the event opens today. We'll be highlighting select early registrants in the coming days, but we'll tell you now that this is a conversation you won't want to miss.
Sponsorships
Companies interested in being a sponsor of the Summit should contact ReadWriteWeb COO Bernard Lunn.
The Research Report
In conjunction with the Summit, we'll be releasing our second original premium research report. This Spring we published a well-received Guide to Online Community Management and we aim to make our report on the state of the real-time web even better. It will include interviews with 30 organizations doing cutting edge work in this market, curated highlights from the best writing about the real-time web from around the blogosphere, professionally produced documentation of all the conversation sessions at the Summit (which will also be made available for free to all Summit participants) and a few surprise resources. Readers of the report will have a solid foundation to take action on the real-time web.
Watch this space for pre-ordering information about that forthcoming report and about discounts available to registrants for the Summit.
A Month of Special Coverage
The real-time web is changing fields like social networking, media, search, humanitarian work and financial markets dramatically.
In the month leading up to the Summit, we'll be highlighting one "article of the day" about the real-time web that we've uncovered using the same research methods we use to break news about the topic regularly. If that article happens to be yours, we'll link out to your blog and tell our readers why we think what you've written is so important.
We'll point readers to articles like Adam Tinworth's thoughtful To LiveBlog or LiveTweet? or Steven Bell's thought provoking post on the blog of the Association of College and Research Libraries titled The Real-Time Library and we'll put those writings by others into perspective for the wider real-time world. We hope you'll point us to the best articles you find on the topic as well, so we can share those with our community of readers.
There's an active conversation going on right now about the real-time web and we want to help our community of readers be as informed as possible about where the web is headed. We also believe that this series of highlights will help conversation at the Summit be all the better informed.
We're excited to focus on this big change the web is going through and to do it together with our community of readers and supporters. We hope you'll join us for the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit and participate in all the parts of this special area of focus.
Suggestions, questions and feedback can be directed to marshall@readwriteweb.com. We won't just see you in California in October, we'll see you on the real-time web.
Photo of Kaliya Hamlin by Bill Johnston
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Congrats, Marshall - I know you have put a lot of hard work into this project. Is there a badge people may place on their blog to help promote it?
Thanks Alex! That's a good idea - we'll make a real snazzy looking one today and make it available asap.
Congrats! It's great to see RWW getting some events going.
Posted by: Rick Turoczy
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September 15, 2009 8:45 AM
thanks Rick. the event should rock - and there's stuff in this announcement for people who can't make it to the event too.
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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September 15, 2009 8:47 AM
Hi Marshall,
I'm always excited about the opportunity to iterate on "real time" or "live web" search, since that's what i did my Master's Thesis on a few years ago. Unconferences mean we might move the ball forward on open standards and cooperation in the industry, find new partners because this format allows people to drop some of the competitive, guarded ways of behaving and get to the real issues. Great that Read Write Web is thinking about these issues this way.
mary
Awesome! I'd love to come... Maybe Superfeedr can sponsor some stuff there?
Thanks Mary. We're real excited to have you at the event. Thanks for registering already!
Superfeedr, thanks - we'd love to have you there and we'll be in touch regarding sponsorship.
Awesome stuff guys
Why is it $145.00?
A conference about the *Open* Web that's *closed*, only allows wealthy people to attend?
shame I can't come to the event but I am looking forward to the coverage.
We have seen Techcrunch's take on realtime so it will be nice to see rww's more in depth analytical style on the subject.
Todd, there are costs associated and we are a business. $145 seems like a steal of a deal as a business expense, but individuals for whom that's too steep should contact us. (There are some discount codes available.) We'd really like you to be there, for example.
@Marshall
If you're offering a sliding scale for students, broke ass start-ups with no capital, etc., that's cool.
I appreciate the invitation, but I cannot afford $800+ airfare/hotel/rental car overhead.
Looking forward to reading the post about what happen, who was there!
Woo hoo! I am very excited.
Hi Todd,
If you can make it on a cheap plane tix, i'd be happy to put you up in the guest room in our house (it's in old mountain view and my BF and I have plenty of room) and get you to and from the airport and the event so you don't have to rent a car.
Marshall,
Maybe we could make a wiki page for people to offer help for those on low budgets.
mary
Mary, you rock. Yup, we've got a wiki on the way and this is a great use for a page on it.
This sounds like a really exciting event, I'm hoping to make it up there!
In the spirit of real time sharing we'd be happy to set up a hosted wiki for you.
There is a site - cannot recall the name - that does that for thrifty travelers and people with a spare room looking for spare cash
best of luck with the event!
Marshall, this is brilliant. A "participatory gathering of people" - love it. If you take it on the road, please include Denver. I'd be glad to help out.
Anything you can make available online, even if it is not real-time, would be appreciated. I'm living in Sweden so traveling would take too much time (and money).
Posted by: https://services.mozilla.com/openid/jchris
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September 16, 2009 12:46 AM
JChris, we'll be delivering a lot of value online leading up to and possibly including parts of the Summit. Thanks for your interest and enjoy living in Sweden. :)
I am so very excited about this RWW event! Bernard mentioned a site for "thrifty travelers and people with a spare room looking for spare cash". You might try this: http://www.couchsurfing.org/ Also, there is enough time before the event that cheap airline tickets could still be had. Airfares change literally by the minute so do some research.
Sounds like a great event. PBworks will definitely be there. And the website Bernard is trying to think of is Couchsurfing.org, I think.
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Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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September 24, 2009 9:00 AM