PSFK Conference 2011

This Friday I’ll be at the 2011 PSFK conference in NYC. As you may recall,  I love conferences. But this one has especially won me over. Aside from the amazing line-up of speakers and topics, check out the agenda below:

FINAL AGENDA

• 9am Doors Open, Breakfast Served
• 9.30 Opening Remarks – With host and PSFK founder Piers Fawkes
• 9.40 Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter – Funding Creativity with Kickstarter
• 10.10 What’s Next? A Panel On The Future – Ayesha Khanna, Hybrid Reality Institute; Greg Lindsay, Journalist; Allison Mooney, Google; Katherine Moriwaki; Parsons The New School For Design; Moderated by Scott Lachut, PSFK
• 10.50 Coffee & More Coffee
• 11.20 Ben Lerer, Thrillist – Bridging Content + Commerce… In Style
• 11.50 Joe Gebbia, Airbnb.com – From Moleskine to Marketplace
• 12.10 Aaron Dignan, Undercurrent – Why The Future Of Work Is Play
• 12.30 Lunch & Conversation – A Conversation At Lunch Sponsored by Microsoft Tag
• 1.00 John Puterbaugh, Nellymoser – Adventures In Mobile Tagging
• 1.15 Future of Mobile Tagging Panel – Patrick Donnelly, QR Arts; Roger Marquis, 2D Barcode Strategy;  Carlos Lamadrid, Woman’s Day Magazine; Robin Lanahan, Microsoft Tag. Moderated by Piers Fawkes, PSFK
• 1.45 Afternoon Talks Begin
• 1.50 Daniel Cherry III & Theresa Tran, The New York Cosmos – The New York Cosmos: Doing It Our Way
• 2.10 Eoin Billings & Duncan Jackson, Billings Jackson Design – Industrial Design: ID For The City
• 2.30 Rachel Sterne, City of New York – City As A Platform
• 2.50 Coffee & Cookies
• 3.10. Post-Good? A Panel On Responsible Creativity & Culture – Jill Fehrenbacher, Inhabitat; John Gerzema, Young & Rubicam; Phil Patton, Author; Timo Rissanen, Parsons The New School For Design. Moderated by Scott Lachut, PSFK
• 3.40 Justin Gignac – Doin’ It and Doin’ It and Doin’ It Well
• 4.00 John Bielenberg, COMMON – What Happens Next?
• 4.30 Closing Remarks – By PSFK founder Piers Fawkes
• 4.45 Screening of ‘Senna’ – Introduced by director Asif Kapadia
• 6.30 PSFK CONFERENCE NYC Afterparty Sponsored by Land Rover – At the Manhattan Classic Car Club, 250 Hudson Street (just north of Canal)

Do you see what I see? Almost every presentation is only 30 minutes long. Perfect for my ADD and also ensuring that I maximize my information intake. I only wish that Mitch Polatin could be there to experience it with me.

I’ll create a presentation on all the awesomeness of the conference and post it here sometime in the next week.

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