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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-08-20</end-on>
    <full-description>The Bandwidth Conference discusses issues of interest to the music and technology communities, with a particular focus on the evolving musical experience. Topics focus on marketing, fan behavior, trends and future forecasts, and an examination of the ways people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to music.

Regency Center Lodge
1290 Sutter Street (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)
San Francisco, California 94109
The Bandwidth Conference discusses issues of interest to the music and technology communities, with a particular focus on the evolving musical experience. Topics focus on marketing, fan behavior, trends and future forecasts, and an examination of the ways people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to music.

Registration discount deadline: August 10.
Bandwidth Conference is an intimate event - there is a very limited number of tickets.

Speakers are from companies such as Nettwerk Music Group, Yahoo! Music, YouTube, RealNetworks, Pandora, Ubiquity Records and various artist agents/managers, journalists and more. For our growing list of speakers, please see website at www.bandwidthconference.com</full-description>
    <id type="integer">28</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>The Bandwidth Conference discusses the evolving musical experience. Topics on marketing, trends, and an examination of the ways people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to music.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-08-18</start-on>
    <title>Bandwidth Conference - the music|technology conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.bandwidthconference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/28</url>
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    <tag-string>mp3, music, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Lisbon</city>
    <country>Portugal</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-09-30</end-on>
    <full-description>SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they&#226;&#8364;&#8482;re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development.

SHiFT will evolve around five major areas, and the idea is to have contributions about them from all sections of society:
* People and Technology
* Knowledge Management
* Civic Participation
* Rights, Liberties and Privacy for the Digital Age
* New forms of Economics

There will be speakers from Yahoo, Google, Electronic Frontier
Foundation and the Open Rights Group.

250 Euros after september 22th.
There are discounts (up 20% with the Portuguese airline).</full-description>
    <id type="integer">47</id>
    <region>Portugal</region>
    <short-description>SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they&#226;&#8364;&#8482;re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development. (there are workshops 1 day before)</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-09-28</start-on>
    <title>SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.shift.pt/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/47</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/47/SHiFT_header.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>innovation, people, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Lisbon</city>
    <country>Portugal</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-09-30</end-on>
    <full-description>SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they&#226;&#8364;&#8482;re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development. SHiFT will evolve around five major areas, and the idea is to have contributions about them from all sections of society:

People and Technology
Knowledge Management
Civic Participation
Rights, Liberties and Privacy for the Digital Age
New forms of Economics</full-description>
    <id type="integer">69</id>
    <region>Portugal</region>
    <short-description>The main goal of SHIFT is to create an informal space for participating in conversations about technology and the ways it could be used for positive ends.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-09-28</start-on>
    <title>SHIFT Lisbon</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.shift.pt</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/69</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/69/125_01_UK.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>people, technology, usability</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Oslo</city>
    <country>Norway</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-10-19</end-on>
    <full-description>NordiCHI is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. NordiCHI is the meeting place for researchers from academia and industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others from a broad range of traditions and communities.


NordiCHI is a biannual conference which has earlier been held in Stockholm (2000), &#195;&#8230;rhus (2002) and Tampere (2004). </full-description>
    <id type="integer">58</id>
    <region>Norway</region>
    <short-description>NordiCHI is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-10-14</start-on>
    <title>NordiCHI 2006 in Oslo</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/58</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>chi, conference, nordchi, norway, oslo, technology, ubicomp, usability, userexperience, ux, uxnet</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Stanford</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-04-28</end-on>
    <full-description>PERSUASIVE 07 will focus on how digital technology can motivate and influence people. This event will bring together researchers, designers, and developers interested in computers designed to change human attitudes and behaviors in positive ways. 

Key themes of PERSUASIVE 07 include health, education, sustainability, productivity, social relationships, trust, ethics and more. Technologies of interest include web sites, mobile phones, video games, and electronic devices, among others. 
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">151</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-04-26</start-on>
    <title>Persuasive 07</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.persuasivetechnology.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/151</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>behavior, persuasion, persuasive, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Jose</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-05-25</end-on>
    <full-description>SemTech 2007 is a world-class educational program. Join us this year, as an attendee, presenter, exhibitor, or sponsor. The program will include a wide variety of presentations - both business and technology focused - from all communities. 

At the 2007 Semantic Technology Conference, May 20-24, in San Jose, California, you have the unique opportunity to learn from at least 24 organizations that are currently implementing semantic technologies in applications and services that are in production today.

We've moved beyond general conversations about what semantic technologies should be able to accomplish at some point in the future. At SemTech you'll learn the details of exactly what's worked and what hasn't when building semantic applications, and how your organization can start applying these techniques and tools in your development environment.

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">198</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>The SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) come to life - in products, in working applications, in case studies, and in conversations.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-05-20</start-on>
    <title>2007 Semantic Technology Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.semantic-conference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/198</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/198/semtech07_hor_blue.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>semantic, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Sunnyvale</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-07-15</end-on>
    <full-description>Community Next is all about building a community of entrepreneurs, marketers, and venture capitalists in the Bay Area. We create and host conferences that we ourselves would like to attend. These conferences have two focuses: 1. to have in depth panel discussions that give take-home skills and 2. to allow like-minded people to socialize and get to know each other.

In February we did on about Online Communities. In July we're holding one about Viral Marketing. BBQ afterwards!

Speakers include:
-Jason Feffer of SodaHead and MySpace
-Justin Kan of Justin.tv
-Joe Green of Facebook Causes
-Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek</full-description>
    <id type="integer">258</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Join us for the premier conference on viral marketing.  Learn how to grow your business to a million users and more...</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-07-14</start-on>
    <title>Community Next Viral Marketing</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.communitynext.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/258</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/258/CN_badge.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>conference, marketing, start up, startup, sunnyvale, tech, technology, viral marketing</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Fort Collins</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-11</end-on>
    <full-description>The Center for Internet Research (TCFIR), in concert with Colorado State University is hosting &#226;&#8364;&#339;21st Century Education &#226;&#8364;&#8220; The Real and the Ideal&#226;&#8364;&#157;, a conference focused on &#226;&#8364;&#339;what&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s next&#226;&#8364;&#157; in the social/cultural, methodological, and technological dimensions of education. The conference theme speaks to the need for a realistic appraisal of the state of education and reform efforts, and what present realities indicate for the future, coupled with constructive and well-informed speculation about how change in education can be better managed to serve the need of students, educators, parents, industry, and society as a whole; the real and the ideal.

We believe that bringing together leaders in education, business, academia, and government in a conference environment organized around these themes will produce significant new ideas, perspectives, and initiatives unlike other education conferences.

We request your presence at &#226;&#8364;&#339;21st Century Education &#226;&#8364;&#8220; The Real and the Ideal&#226;&#8364;&#157;, October 9 and 10, in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
 

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">197</id>
    <region>CO</region>
    <short-description>In this century technology, education and economic prosperity are inextricably linked. How can we maximize this potential?</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-09</start-on>
    <title>21st Centery Education: The Real and the Ideal</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://education-2007.org/registration/request.cfm?Action=Add</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/197</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/197/te2007.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>anthropology, education, educational reform, psychology, sociology, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Los Angeles</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-24</end-on>
    <full-description>Imagination meets innovation at FITC Hollywood, a festival for new media designers and developers. Two days of panels and presentations featuring top creative and business talent working in animation, motion graphics, online video, rich media and the Web.

Highlights of FITC Hollywood include:
* Over 50 presentations and panels
* Presentations from Adobe, Big Spaceship (Joshua Hirsch), Tailer Park, and others
* Pre-festival animation workshop
* Free &#8216;Get A Job&#8217; evening event
* Parties and other networking opportunities

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">337</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>FITC Hollywood is the 'Do It Yourself' festival for new media designers and developers. Two days of panels and presentations featuring top creative and business talent.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-22</start-on>
    <title>FTIC Hollywood</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://http://www.fitc.ca/hollywood</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/337</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/337/FITCHolly200x200.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>animation, conference, design, entertainment, fitc, motion graphics, online video, rich media, technology, workshop</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Messe Berlin Berlin</city>
    <country>Germany</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-09</end-on>
    <full-description>Web 2.0 Expo Berlin showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies and connects the European web community. European designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, product managers and business strategists, from start-ups to enterprises, come here to network and learn. Join your colleagues and tap the power of Web 2.0. Register today using code MLVSBE20 and save 100&#8364; off the conference or get a free Expo Pass at www.web2expo.com/berlin . 
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">312</id>
    <region>Germany</region>
    <short-description>Web 2.0 Expo Berlin showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies and connects the European web community. Join your peers embracing Web 2.0 technologies.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-11-05</start-on>
    <title>Web 2.0 Expo Berlin</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.web2expo.com/berlin</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/312</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/312/Web_2.0_Logo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>conference, expo, technology, web 20</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Amstersam</city>
    <country>Netherlands</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-02-27</end-on>
    <full-description>FITC comes to Amsterdam February 25 - February 26, 2008!

Whether your weapon of choice is Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After-Effects, or a combination of all the above, you're in for a wild ride of presentations, panel discussions, and parties as FITC debuts in Amsterdam. This two-day event brings together the world's hottest designers -- and the coolest technology.

Confirmed speakers include; Erik Natzke, Niko Stumpo, GMUNK, Nikolai Cornell, Peter Elst, Ralph Hauwert, Joost Korngold and Colin Moock, Aral Balkan, James Paterson, Jared Tarbell and more!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">363</id>
    <region>Netherlands</region>
    <short-description>FITC Amsterdam 2008
Design. Technology. Cool Shit.
Felix Meritis, European Centre for Arts and Sciences


</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-02-25</start-on>
    <title>FITC Amsterdam</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitc.ca/amsterdam</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/363</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/363/fitc_amsterdam.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>adobe, conference, design, fitc, flash, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Jose</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-05-23</end-on>
    <full-description>Widely recognized as the World&#8217;s Foremost Symposium on the Commercialization of Semantic Technologies, the SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 come to life in products, in working applications, in case studies, and in conversations with hundreds of developers, entrepreneurs and practitioners who are building a new industry. SemTech 2008 is a world-class educational program, including 5 days of business case studies, technical tracks, user groups, product briefings, demonstrations, industry-focus groups and networking opportunities.

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS &#8211; including our special 3rd Person attends Free offer &#8211; are available until April 21!

For the full conference agenda and to receive regular program updates, go to:
www.semantic-conference.com or 
call +1-310-477-4475 
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">435</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>The SemTech Conference is where Semantic Technologies and Web 3.0 come to life.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-05-18</start-on>
    <title>Semantic Technology Conference 2008</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://semantic-conference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/435</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/435/SemTech2008_122x200.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>linked data, ontologies, ontology, rdf, semantic, soa, taxonomies, taxonomy, technology, web, web 30</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-05-22</end-on>
    <full-description>CINCINNATI &#8211; April 23 &#8211; The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston&#8217;s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. The annual creativity, business and technology conference for graphic designers, the HOW Conference will feature 59 speakers, 60+ sessions and 10 three-hour workshops. 

According to HOW magazine editor Bryn Mooth, &#8220;the HOW Conference is a wonderful opportunity for designers to develop their design careers, hone their business skills, get their creative juices flowing and network with thousands of fellow designers.&#8221;

Many industry experts and well-known designers will present at this year&#8217;s Conference, including Allan Haley of Monotype Imaging, House Industries&#8217; Ken Barber, design entrepreneur Charles S. Anderson, Adobe&#8217;s Russell Brown and Julieanne Kost, plus Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger of Modern Dog Design Co. 

Attendees can choose from sessions in seven tracks: Creativity &amp; Inspiration, Design Disciplines, Business &amp; Management, Career Development, In-House Issues, Technology &amp; Production and HOW Learning Center. 

The Conference will also feature Boston Design Studio Tours, which allow attendees to tour these six local studios: Arnold Worldwide, Catapult Thinking, Sametz Blackstone Associates, Seltzer, Silverscape and Visual Dialogue.

The HOW Conference is expected to attract more than 3,000 graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, illustrators and other design professionals from around the world. 

The 2008 HOW Design Conference is presented by HOW, the creativity, business and technology magazine for graphic designers. HOW is published by F+W Publications, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH.

For registration information, call (800) 436-8700 or (513) 531-2690 ext. 1450; fax 
(513) 531-0798; email howconference@fwpubs.com or visit HOWconference.com.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">463</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston&#8217;s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-05-18</start-on>
    <title>HOW Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.howconference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/463</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/463/08HDC_logo1.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>2d, 3d, adobe, graphic design, information architecture, mad skills, paper, photography, photoshop, technology, training</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Portland</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-05-24</end-on>
    <full-description>WebVisions explores the future of the Web with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers that includes keynotes from Jeffrey Veen of Google and Lynne Johnson of FastCompany.com, as well as sessions by Rashmi Sinha (Slideshare.net), Matt Haughey (MetaFilter), Christina Wodtke (Boxes and Arrows), Tjeerd Hoek (frog design), Bill DeRouchey (Ziba Design), Kimberly Blessing (Paypal) and many others.

Half day workshops feature acclaimed designer Roger Black ("Type Class"), Aaron Gustafson ("Progressive Enhancement with Javascript and CSS"), Erica O'Grady ("The Art and Science of Conversation in  Social Media"), Tyler Sticka ("The Control Freak's Guide to Web Design"), David McFarland ("Javascript for Designers") and more.

Conference Pass: $180 Early Bird* / $250 Standard
*if purchased by March 31st

Workshops: $375 Early Bird* / $450 Standard
*if purchased by March 31st

Group rates, association discounts and student discounts are also available; call Brad Smith at 503-230-2058 or email brad@webvisionsevent.com for more information.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">414</id>
    <region>OR</region>
    <short-description>Explore the future of Web design, user experience, technology and business strategy with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers that include Jeffrey Veen, Christina Wodtke, Aaron Gustafson and more.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-05-22</start-on>
    <title>WebVisions 2008</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.webvisionsevent.com/register/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/414</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/414/WV08_tout_03.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, business strategy, convergence, css, design, development, interaction design, javascript, mobile, project management, social media, technology, usability, user experience, venture capital, web applications, webapps, webvisions</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Chicago</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-24</end-on>
    <full-description>FITC returns to Chicago with two full days of presentations, workshops and networking opportunities at Chicago City Center Hotel &amp; Sports Club. This is the second year for the event, which includes a strong local contingent represented by Samuel Agesilas Pastel (http://www.levelofindustry.com/) and Zack Stepek (http://www.cravemg.com/). 

Richard Galvin, technical product manager for Flash at Adobe Systems (http://www.adobe.com/), kicks off FITC Chicago with a sneak peek at some of the new technologies currently in development at Adobe Systems. Avi Muchnick follows with a first look at the tools currently in the Aviary (http://a.viary.com/) product pipeline.This new suite of sophisticated web applications for designers, 3D modelers, and artist of all genres, is one of the most talked-about projects of the year.

Confirmed presenters include: Eric Natzke, Sean Koriakin (Imaginary Forces), James Paterson (Presstube.com),  Jon Ruppel (schematic), Jason Theodor (Critical Mass) and R. Blank (AlmerBlank).</full-description>
    <id type="integer">480</id>
    <region>IL</region>
    <short-description>FITC Chicago is a two-day event for the design and technology community, featuring instructive and illuminating presentations, and invaluable networking opportunities.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-22</start-on>
    <title>FITC Chicago</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://fitc.ca/chicago</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/480</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/480/FITC_CO08_400x150.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>actionscript, adobe, aviary, conference, design, fitc, flash, flex, technology, workshop</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Toronto</city>
    <country>Canada</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-04-29</end-on>
    <full-description>Now in its 8th year, FITC Toronto is one of the largest and longest running events for the design and technology community with presentations, demonstrations, panel discussions, workshops and the FITC Awards, an annual awards show which honors the best and brightest in the world of Interactive and new media design. 

Insights and expertise from respected presenters and senior-level attendees are shared across three subject areas: creative, technical and business. Speakers include: David Carson, Joshua Davis, Joshua Hirsch, and MK12. 

FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival is open to Flash and FLEX designers and developers, animators, programmers, motion graphic artists, creative directors, account managers, and anyone interested in Interactive design and technology. </full-description>
    <id type="integer">654</id>
    <region>Canada</region>
    <short-description>FITC Toronto 2009 celebrates what it means to live, think and play outside the lines with a three-day event focused on the art and craft of Interactive design.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-04-26</start-on>
    <title>FITC Toronto 2009</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitc.ca/toronto</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/654</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/654/FITC_TO09_300x250_banner.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>animation, fitc, fitc toronto, flash, flex, interactive design, motion graphics, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-06-04</end-on>
    <full-description>Join us for three jam-packed days of education, innovation, and exchange. Come together with fellow developers and technologists to evaluate dozens of open-source projects currently powering leading Web companies, transforming enterprise IT, and enabling next-generation computing.

OK, the economy is bad, but your development choices don't have to follow suit. Whether you're focused on creating robust Web apps, building a scalable infrastructure, or thinking about cloud computing, you'll find sessions on a breadth of proven free and open-source software (FOSS) technologies and tools.

Advance your skills and assess open-source projects that span languages (Java&#8482;, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris&#8482;, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish&#8482;, Apache), databases (MySQL&#8482;), services, and more.

Choose from 70+ expert led talks on:

&#8226; Cloud Platforms - Development and deployment in the cloud. 
&#8226; Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 trends. 
&#8226; RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet Applications, scripting, and tools. 
&#8226; Web Platforms - Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers. 
&#8226; Server-side Platforms - SOA, tools, application severs, and databases. 
&#8226; Mobile Development - Mobile platforms, devices, tools, and application development. 
&#8226; Operating Systems and Infrastructure - Operating systems, virtualization, core software infrastructure, code base development, customization, and contribution. 
&#8226; Free and Open - Any and all subjects are fair game.
(All topics and sessions are subject to change.)</full-description>
    <id type="integer">707</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Join us for three jam-packed days of developer education, innovation, and exchange.

http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/index.jsp</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-06-01</start-on>
    <title>CommunityOne West Conference 2009</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/index.jsp</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/707</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/707/C1E_14_Bubbles_600px_040609.gif</logo-url>
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  <event>
    <city>London</city>
    <country>United Kingdom</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-07-03</end-on>
    <full-description>CREATE 2009 
1-2 July 2009 
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
 
CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. A conference where the emphasis is on sharing the wealth of creative ideas we have developed in order to resolve problems, create new capabilities, or new functions, and where the aim is to evolve further creative designs that can make a difference to people.
Programme
Our four keynote presentations are from:
Josephine Reid, Pervasive Computing Lab, Hewlett-Packard 
Steve Benford, Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham 
Andrew McGrath, Director of Design and Usability, Orange Global 
Crispin Jones, industrial and interaction designer 
There are also papers from both academia and industry, all providing fascinating insights into the practice of user-centred design with digital technologies. Edinburgh Napier University&#8217;s Centre for Interaction Design is also providing a novel interactive session during the final afternoon that will get you thinking about the design issues that we will have to address in the near future.
We use the middle evening productively with a showcase event, which was very successful last year. The event enables physical, interactive artefacts and prototypes to be demonstrated; the event is &#8216;augmented&#8217; with a good buffet and some very drinkable wine.
Who should attend?
This conference will be of use to you if you are involved in user experience design and management, human-computer interaction, interaction design and usability. Delegates have commented in the past how refreshing it is to attend a small, friendly conference with a good mix of academics and practitioners and we hope that this will continue this year.
So come along and share your own creative experiences. We look forward to meeting you on 1 and 2 July at Create 2009. 

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    <region>United Kingdom</region>
    <short-description>Create 2009 is a design conference about creating innovative interactions.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-07-01</start-on>
    <title>CREATE 2009 :: innovative interactions :: Covent G</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.create-conference.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/652</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/652/create09.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>conference, create, design, interaction design, interactive, london, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-10-31</end-on>
    <full-description>This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners from across disciplines. Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise designed to reveal issues that will increasingly impact upon the design of the products and services that will populate the urban landscape in the near future. The outcome of this half-day workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers and technologists will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban landscape.
Workshop Leaders: Michael Smyth &amp; Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Who should attend?

As the aim of this workshop is to generate discussion and to collaboratively identify design issues, we would like to encourage attendance from a mix of people at different career stages, both creative practitioners and academic researchers. As interdisciplinarity is an important feature of this workshop, participants from a range of related fields, for example technology and creative design, are welcome to attend.
If you are interested in attending, please email Ingi Helgason : i.helgason@napier.ac.uk : by 31st August, including a maximum of 500 words telling us about yourself and your work, and why you would like to attend this workshop.
Find out more about the workshop :: http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about

CREATIVITY IS PRESENT IN ALL WE DO

The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages participation in everyday creativity?

http://www.creativityandcognition09.org</full-description>
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    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>The outcome of this half-day workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers and technologists will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban landscape.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-10-27</start-on>
    <title>Informing the design of the future urban landscape</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1153</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1153/sanfranmap2.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>design, interaction, technology, urban design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2010-04-30</end-on>
    <full-description>Thursday-Friday, April 29-30, 2010
The TimesCenter
New York City

What is Gel?

Short for "Good Experience Live", Gel is a conference, and community, exploring good experience in all its forms -- in business, technology, art, society, and life.

Instead of focusing on just one thing (design, technology, user experience, business, etc.) like many conferences, Gel touches on many things. This challenges attendees to find, and learn from, the patterns that underlie good experience, even in disciplines vastly different from their own.

There are two Gel events each year in New York:

    * Gel, in late April, covering the widest possible range of topics and voices. (Next up: Gel 2010)
    * Gel Health, in mid-October, focused on improving health, and health care, by improving the patient experience. (Next up: Gel Health 2010)

The best way to understand the Gel experience is to attend. 

Register Now!
https://www.goodexperience.com/gel/db/register.php?id=13</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1409</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>Short for "Good Experience Live", Gel is a conference, and community, exploring good experience in all its forms -- in business, technology, art, society, and life.
</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-04-29</start-on>
    <title>Gel 2010 Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.gelconference.com/10</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1409</url>
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    <tag-string>business, design, technology, user experience</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Portland</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2010-05-20</end-on>
    <full-description>May 19-21, 2010 at the Oregon Convention Center.

Join our all-star lineup of speakers for three days of sessions, panels and workshops on Web design, user experience and business strategy.

WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web. Be ready to network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.

Over the years, we've built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders. I invite you to join us for an event that's seen as "the creative conference for the Web."

Luke Williams of frog design to Deliver Opening Keynote

WebVisions is excited to announce that Luke Williams of frog design will deliver our opening keynote address on &#8220;Thinking the Unthinkable: How To Spark Disruptive Innovation.&#8221; Luke is a leading consultant, speaker, and educator in the area of innovation strategy and disruptive thinking. For more than a decade, he has worked internationally with industry leaders like Microsoft, American Express, Sony, Virgin, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, to develop new products, services, brands, and business models. He is the author of the forthcoming book Disrupt! A Step-by-Step Guide to Transforming Your Business (FT Press, 2010).

twitter: @wv2010

REGISTER: https://www.webvisionsevent.com/cart/

Early Bird rates end March 31st!

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    <id type="integer">1426</id>
    <region>OR</region>
    <short-description>A nationally-recognized conference that explores the future of Web design, technology, user experience and business strategy from May 19-21, 2010 at the Oregon Convention Center.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-05-19</start-on>
    <title>Webvisions</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.webvisionsevent.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1426</url>
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    <tag-string>business, design, technology, user experience</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Chicago</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-09-18</end-on>
    <full-description>Two days of innovation, intelligence, provocation and inspiration courtesy of 20+ incredibly diverse presenters. If you believe in the power of ideas, the value of imagination, the strength of the human spirit -- and that thinking like a designer is more important than being one -- Cusp Conference is for you.

2010 Presenters include:
Richard Saul Wurman - founder of TED


2009 Presenters included:
Dr John Cohn - IBM Fellow / reality TV star
Emily Pilloton - Project H Design
Dave Lyon - General Motors designer
Alan Berger - MIT 
Lynda Barry - cartoonist
DBR and DJ Scientific - violin and turntable
Hartmut Esslinger - founder frog design
Sara de Freitas - Serious Games Institute

September 22-23, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art Theater
Chicago

Seating is extremely limited.
Approximately 45% of available seats are currently pre-sold (01.14.10).

Early registration and group discounts are available.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">632</id>
    <region>IL</region>
    <short-description>A conference about the design of everything.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-09-22</start-on>
    <title>Cusp Conference 2010</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cuspconference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/632</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/632/cusp-size2.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>alternative energy, architecture, creativity, design, education, ethics, innovation, law, music, social good, technology</tag-string>
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