http://invergence.com interactive convergence :: Come Together. Fri, 09 May 2008 19:03:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently received an email inquiry from the people who manage speaking engagements for Tony Uphoff, the CEO of TechWeb, a United Business Media company (includes CMP, PR Newswire, etc.).  They heard about Inverge: the interactive convergence conference from a colleague in New York and after reading all about the event ... http://invergence.com/2008/05/07/techweb-ceo-will-bring-great-experience-and-vision-to-inverge-2008/ One could argue that mobile phones represent the best current example of an invergence device.  So it has been a goal of mine to find a good presenter from Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone producer and 5th most valued brand, to speak at the Inverge conference about the future of mobile phones as it relates ... http://invergence.com/2008/04/30/nokias-karl-long-tapped-as-a-keynote-presenter-at-inverge-2008/ Got some great news today from JupiterResearch President David Schatsky.   He confirmed that David Card, VP & Research Director at JupiterResearch, is available to present at Inverge 2008. David's research focus is the media and music industries, with particular emphasis on cross-media programming, social media, audience segmentation – including teens – and online ... http://invergence.com/2008/04/21/jupiterresearch-vp-and-research-director-to-appear-at-inverge-2008/ I invited Scott Kveton, chairman of the OpenID Foundation and VP of Open Platforms at Vidoop, to speak at Inverge 2008 about the convergence of social Web apps, authentication systems and data and he graciously accepted.  I look forward to his talk because there is a bunch of activity in ... http://invergence.com/2008/04/18/openid-foundation-chairman-scott-kveton-added-to-inverge-presenters/ Ed Lantz is an expert and visionary in immersive art and entertainment.  I had a great conversation with him recently about how the computer is breaking out of the box to surround us.  This is a great fit for our conference on interactive convergence.  I think what Ed has to ... http://invergence.com/2008/03/20/immersive-art-entertainment-expert-ed-lantz-confirmed-as-a-presenter/ I received an email today confirming that one of the highest rated presenters at last year's Inverge conference is returning to present at Inverge 2008. Joshua Green, who runs the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT, was an audience favorite last year, with 93% of the audience rating his presentation as either "Great" or ... http://invergence.com/2008/03/17/johsua-green-mit-convergence-culture-consortium-inverge-2008/ I recently spent some time at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey.  This is a group of very smart people working on some very cool invergence projects! I met with Cheryl Birch, who gave me a tour of their facility (see below for photos) and then sat down for ... http://invergence.com/2008/03/14/usc-institute-for-creative-technologies-visit/ We recently added 2 exciting speakers to the Inverge 2008 roster.   Both are national leaders in their respective field and have done pioneering invergence work. Marc Scarpa--who I connected with through Alison Savitch and Elaine Spooner with the Producers Guild of America New Media Council--is a is a veteran director and producer ... http://invergence.com/2008/02/12/two-innovative-and-creative-speakers-added-to-inverge-2008-program/ Yesterday we confirmed Andy Mooney, Chairman of Consumer Products at The Walt Disney Company, as a speaker at Inverge 2008 on Sept. 4 & 5 in Portland, OR. Andy oversees worldwide operations for Disney Consumer Products, the division that is responsible for toys, interactive games, electronics, books, fine art, apparel, etc. I look forward to ... http://invergence.com/2008/01/30/andy-mooney-disney-inverge-2008/ In a recent blog post, Joshua Green, MIT Convergence Culture Consortium researcher (and InVerge 2007 speaker) has some recommended alternate viewing during the dry season of the WGA strike:  footage from his Inverge 2007 talk and an interview during InVerge with fellow speaker Mark Deuze.Share This http://invergence.com/2007/12/17/inverge-viewing/