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 Canton Seafood on May 9th.

Our schedule is:

Saturday May 6th

3pm - 6pm Registration table will be available (location TBA) to pick up badges and conference materials.
6pm - 8pm Opening night informal reception - suggestions at MeshForum wiki

Sunday May 7th

9 am Registration opens at Commonwealth Club
9 am Light breakfast (fruits) and coffee available at Commonwealth Club
9:30 am Opening remarks by Shannon Clark, founder of MeshForum
10:00 am Opening Keynote - Manuel Lima, founder of VisualComplexity.com
11:00 am First Interstitial - Art of Networks - Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
11:15 am Naked Conversations, the corporation in a blogging world - Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
12:30 pm Lunch workshop on storytelling with Heather Gold
2 pmLarge Scale Social Networks, the members - presentations and discussion with Anil Dash of Six Apart and Aaron Burcell, PodShow
3 pm Second Interstitial - Art of Networks - Spot Draves, ElectricSheep
3:15 pm Afternoon break - Global Chocolate Tasting
3:45 pm Large Scale Social Networks, multiple networks - presentations and discussion with Mike Jones, Userplane and Marc Senasac, Broadband Mechanics
4:45 pm Third Interstitial - Art of Networks - Dicky Davies, The Dicky Box
5 pm Walk to group dinner
5:30 pm Group dinner at Canton Seafood, 655 Folsom St.

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, Jon Lebkowsky, worldchanging.com, Zack Rosen, CivicSpace Labs
10:45 am Fifth Interstitial - Art of Networks
11:00 am Value Networks, Verna Allee
12:00 pm Visual Thinking lunch workshop led by Dave Gray and Dana Smith of Xplane
2:00 pm Breaking old Networks, Jamais Cascio, Howard Greenstein, and Christopher Allen
3:00 pm Social Network Analysis, Dr. Karen Stephenson, Netform
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
Canton Seafood, 655 Folsom St., San Francisco

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
10:45 am Morning Break
11:00 am Second workshop sessions
12:30 am Lunch, small group discussions continue
2:00 pm First Afternoon Sessions
3:30 pm Afternoon break
3:45 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.