Schedule for MeshForum 2006

MeshForum 2006 will be May 7-9 in San Francisco, at the Commonwealth Club on May 7th and 8th and at a nearby venue on May 9th. Our schedule is: Saturday May 6th 3pm - 6pm Registration table will be available in Conference Hotel (TBA) to pick up badges and conference materials. 6pm-8pm Opening night reception location TBA Sunday May 7th 9 am Registration opens at Commonwealth Club 9 am light breakfast and coffee available at Commonwealth Club 9:30 am Opening remarks by Shannon Clark, founder of MeshForum 10:00am Opening Keynote - Manuel Lima, founder of VisualComplexity.com 11:00am First Interstitial - Art of Networks 11:15 am Further exploration of Visualization (speaker TBA) 12:30 pm Lunch workshop on storytelling with Heather Gold 2 pm Naked Conversations, how Business blogging is changing communications within and with corporations, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel 3 pm Second Interstitial - Art of Networks 3:15 pm Afternoon break - Global Chocolate Tasting 3:45 pm Large Scale Social Networks (speakers TBA) 4:45 pm Third Interstitial - Art of Networks 5 pm Walk to group dinner 5:30 pm Group dinner at Osha Thai on 2nd St. Surprise speaker after dinner Monday May 8th 8:00 am Registration opens at Commonwealth Club 8:00 am Breakfast at Commonwealth Club 8:30 am The Economics of Transportation Networks, Dr. David Levinson, University of Minnisota 9:30 am Fourth Interstitial - Art of Networks 9:45 am Political Networks, managing large scale Social Networks, Zach Rosen, Civicspace Labs, Nicco Mele, Echoditto 10:45 am Fifth Interstitial - Art of Networks 11:00 am Worldchanging.com - the future is Networks. Alex Steffen and others from worldchanging.com 12:00 pm Visual Thinking lunch workshop led by Dave Gray of Xplane 2:00 pm Maps, Mashups, and New Technologies of Networks and Visualization, Jamais Cascio, Howard Greenstein, Christopher Allen 3:00 pm Understanding Networks (speaker TBA) a closing discussion of techniques to analyze and study Networks and closing remarks by Shannon Clark 4:00 pm Continuing the conversation, moderated by Heather Gold a short presentation of topics to discuss over small group dinners and on Tuesday 4:30 pm Walk to group dinners, leave Commonwealth Club. 5:30 pm Group dinners at private rooms reserved at area restaurants. Speakers and other surprise guests will be available to continue the conversation and start new ones. 8:00 pm Conversations continue at location TBA Tuesday May 9th (venue will be announced as soon as confirmed, will be near the Commonwealth Club) On Tuesday the format is Open Space (or unconference format) with multiple small group discussions and workshops. As topics and session organizers come forward, we will post the topics here and on the wiki but sessions are open to all attendees and anyone may propose a session to open. 8:30 am Breakfast available 9:00 am Opening of the Space, Michael Herman 9:30 am First workshop sessions 10:30 am Morning Break, Sixth Interstitial - Art of Networks 11:00 am Second workshop sessions 12:00 om Lunch, small group discussions continue 1:00 pm Surprise Guest Speaker(s) - watch this space for the details 2:00 pm First Afternoon Sessions 3:00 pm Afternoon break, Seventh Interstitial - Art of Networks 3:15 pm Second Afternoon Sessions 4:15 pm Closing of the space 4:30 pm End of MeshForum 2006 later that night The Organizers and others will meet for drinks and dinner in San Francisco, all attendees who are staying in town are welcome to join us to give feedback and suggestions for the next MeshForum Posted by shannon at March 22, 2006 12:02 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)