ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit: June 11, 2010, New York, NY
Program of the Day
June 11th, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York, New York: the ReadWriteWeb crew is hosting some of the smartest people building the future of the the Real-Time Web and you to come together for a wonderful day of brainstorming, conversation and innovation in action.
The event will open at 8:30 a.m. with an introduction by ReadWriteWeb Founder and Editor Richard MacManus, followed by a keynote presentation by ReadWriteWeb Co-Editor Marshall Kirkpatrick. Marshall will provide an overview of the state of the real-time Web.
Agenda Created in Real-Time, On The Day
Throughout the day, attendees will create the agenda in real-time. As attendees register we are collecting lists of interests they will bring to the Summit.
Famous Speakers
Who's speaking? You are. ReadWriteWeb events are facilitated in the increasingly popular unconference style, in which smart people are convened and take it upon themselves to pack a day full of value from start to finish.
How Unconferences Work
What's an Unconference all about? Here's the idea: convene an incredible group of people, frame the discussion, ask big important questions, then guide participants in building an agenda for the day to maximize the value of the event and minimize hot air. That's the recipe we're following, with the capable guidance of professional unconference facilitator Kaliya Hamlin. Kaliya has been facilitating events like this all around the world for almost 10 years.
Martin Källström, CEO of real-time blog and feed tracking service Twingly brought his team over from Sweden for our last event (we had 10 international companies represented that day). "Last year we happened across one of Kaliya Hamlin's unconference events," he told us. "We spent a couple of hours there and it was an amazing experience. The unconference format is an amazing way for things to happen, it gets everyone to lower their defenses. By opening peoples' minds to 'this is about whatever we want it to be about', they look at how they can create value."
Or, as Google's Brett Slatkin said in referencing the format of the elite FooCamp events to explain unconferences: "Foo-style [unconferencing is] always way better than talks."
Conclusion
The event will conclude between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. with a synthesis of all the conversations of the day.
About Kaliya Hamlin
Kaliya Hamlin, our organizing partner and the facilitator of this event, has helped several early-stage industries coalesce. She's best known for facilitating the Internet Identity Workshop, the leading forum of innovation in the development of open standards for user-centered identity on the Web: OpenID, Information Cards, Open Social, Activity Streams, etc.
Kaliya is an expert at effectively convening meetings of industry leaders – and eliciting contributions from future industry leaders as part of the same conversation.