It's unofficially official! Due to the efforts of a small band of co-conspirators, the WeMedia fringe event is going to take place in London on the evening of Wednesday 03 May 2006. So far we've organised the following speakers for the fringe event and are hoping to confirm several more:
- Suw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
- Neil Dixon, creator of BritCaster.com
- Paul Evans who blogs at nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com
- Michael Tippett,founder of nowpublic.com
- Neha Viswanathan (withinandwithout.com and globalvoicesonline.org)
- Tim Ireland, online marketing expert and activist who blogs at bloggerheads.com
- Dr Chris Yapp, Head of Public Sector Innovation, Microsoft
- Ben Metcalfe (benmetcalfe.com / backstage.bbc.co.uk)
- A political blogger who goes by the name of "Guido Fawkes" (order-order.com)
The conference organisers caught wind of the post I made last month suggesting a fringe and are working towards delivering some interesting speakers from conference itself. I don't have the names yet but will post them when I do.
The event will be guest list only BUT we're going to go to great pains to ensure that a wide selection of people from all walks of life are able to attend. And the event will be covered by some journalism and media students (see my next post if you're someone who fits the bill!) so everyone will at least be able to see what happened on the night.
So what to do now if you want your name on the guest list? Come back here soon...
About We Media - the Conference: The We Media Global Forum brings together the trailblazers of the connected society - the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere. (official programme)
Sounds great; am looking forward to it.
Posted by: Ilana | 28 April 2006 at 03:50 PM
Good luck with the event next week.
Posted by: Patholio | 28 April 2006 at 04:19 PM
This sounds great, wish I could come! Hopefully we can join in in the backchannel...
Posted by: Katie Lips | 30 April 2006 at 08:17 PM
We recently set up UK Podcasters Association (non-profit) primarily in order to deal with the proposed license by the Music Alliance which threatens to enforce payment to podcast even speech - see http://ukpodcasters.org.uk and the Podcast Nation blog and http://nic.suzor.com/2006-creativity_world_ip_day-roundup
I'd love to come. I hope you can add me to the list.
Posted by: Dean Whitbread | 02 May 2006 at 06:53 AM
Hello - Any news on where the fringe event will be yet?
Posted by: Robert Freeman | 03 May 2006 at 12:21 PM