The Berkeley Digital Media and Entertainment Club would like to extend an invitation to the 2006 >play Digital Media Conference.
>play is a unique annual event that brings together creative professionals, industry leaders, and students to discuss the emergence and implications of the digital lifestyle. Visit us at http://www.playconference.org to learn more about the exciting panels, keynotes, and expo for this year's conference.
>play is immersive, informative, creative, and it's fun - the technologies and people you will encounter at this conference are unmatched. So don't delay - buy your ticket today. We'd love to have you there!
Speakers and Moderators Include:
Marco Boerries, Senior VP, Yahoo! Connected Life
Matthew Cross
Lane Becker, Founder, Adaptive Path
Paul Grabowicz, Director of the New Media Program, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Jonathan Harris, Artist & Designer, WeFeelFine.org
Scott Hirsch, Principal, Management Innovation Group
Patrick Buechner, VP of Product Management on Spore, Crysis, Burnout
Jonathan Epstein, CEO, DoubleFusion
Om Malik, Editor, GigaOM.com
Ryan Freitas, Senior Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path
Ahmad Ouri, Technicolor
Z. Byron Wolf, ABCNews.com
Hank Barry, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
David Hornik, August Capital
J. Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Jack Kloster, Founder, Yardbarker
Micki Krimmel. Director of Community, Revver
Evan Williams, Founder, Blogger and Odeo
Oliver Starr, MobileCrunch
Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President of New Products, Telephia
John DeAguiar, Director Product Manager for LBS, Autodesk
Gummi Hafsteinsson, Product Manager for Google Maps for Mobile, Google
Zane Lyon, Manager of Advanced Wireless Solutions, SprintNextel
Spensser Nasser, VP of Engineering, Bones in Motion
Cathy Kirkman, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Jeff Karnes, Director of Multimedia Products, Yahoo!
Milton Olin, Partner, Altschul & Olin
Jamie Perlman, Director of Business Development, SNOCAP
Jeff Ulin, Senior Director of Distribution and Business Affairs, Lucasfilm
Reza Moazzami, Professor, Haas School of Business
Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext
Visit http://www.playconference.org to learn more and register for this year's conference!
Official Website: http://www.playconference.org/
Added by natR on June 6, 2006
this event should be free for students! or at least non-business students...$60 is a lot of money for a poor student :(
We would love to be able to offer free tickets to students, but unfortunately the conference is not free to put on. We hope you'll join us and we believe you'll get more than your money's worth - in networking, in experiences, and not to mention, in food and drink. :)
I had a lot of friends who went to the event last year and couldn't believe how amazing it was. They've all bought tickets to go already and so did I. Definitely worth it to network and learn about some cool stuff.
check out the interview PodTech.net recently did on >play.
http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/1432/play-with-digital-media-at-uc-berkeley
A second keynote has been announced: Rusty Rueff, CEO of SNOCAP!
the main post is over here: http://upcoming.org/event/83339/
If you wouldn't mind, please digg >play: http://digg.com/business_finance/play_conference_tickets_now_on_sale
Thanks! My upcoming search several ways turned up nothing, which seemed impossible.
I just got home from this, even though everyone is still wrapping up there. I thought it was okay, but not great. I am a big fan of the barcamp style conferences. Yahoo was all over this, but I only saw one guy from Google.
It seemed good if you were into Mobile apps though, but thats kinda boring to me. I might go next year, depends on who is speaking.
aunder
Tickets just went on sale - snag them before they're gone!