The Singularity has always sounded to me like a secular version of the Rapture. It seems to fit very neatly into that same God-shaped hole.

-William Gibson

Articles of the week

• Bud Caddell: Emerging Bets at the Intersection of Technology & Culture
  Bud Caddell from Deutsch LA took his team of innovation strategists to SXSW this year to study all the startups launching there. They aggregated all their insights and put them into this report. It’s a great overview about current trends in the US startup world and what marketers can learn from them.
• Fred Wilson: Culture and Fit
  Fred Wilson, head of Union Square Ventures, discusses some common mistakes made in companies’ hiring processes, and where the focus should really lie: culture and fit should be prized above talent and renown.
• Technology Review: The Facebook Fallacy
  Michael Wolff explains how Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it. A controversial and compelling case on the state of affairs of ad-based online business, and why current methods cannot be successful in the long run.
• O’Reilly Radar: Parsing a new Pew report: 3 ways the Internet is shaping healthcare
  Pew Internet and Life Project recently coducted a survey on how people inform themselves about health. Alex Howard breaks down the study’s findings into three key trends: Quantified Self, participatory medicine and what he calls the ‘new digital divide.’ Mobile health data, it seems, is particularly helpful, but in the hands of people who aren’t as likely to need it. The article prompts some interesting questions about how we could make this kind of information more accessible.
• New York Times: Disruptions: A Beacon to Silicon Valley, From a Start-Up for Children
  Since our conversation with Zach last November, we have been eagerly awaiting the public appearance of his new venture. DIY is here and it is shaping up to be an interesting community for kids who make things. The kids post pictures of their work online, and can find inspiration in users’ projects, from melted crayon paintings to soda bottle rockets. It’s nice to see the Internet evolving in a way that appeals to a different age group.

Below you’ll find the 8 talks in chronological order, so you can lean back and enjoy them.

Thomas Schindler: Unfuck the planet by redesigning our currencies

Louisa Heinrich: The inadvertent time machine

Matt Patterson: The strangeness of advertising in comics

Alice Mrongovius: Creating Collaborative Environments

Caroline Drucker: How to give great talks

Jeremy Tai Abbett: I make therefore I am

Joanna Bakas: Unlearning

Marcus Brown: Stories and digital personas

A big round of thank you! is in order! Thanks to our fantastic speakers for their delightful talks, the audience for the lovely conversations throughout the night, our drinks sponsor Weavrs in the person of former Ignite Berlin speaker David Bausola, and our incredibly helpful location hosts, Supermarkt Berlin. You all made this a truly memorable night.

All videos are available at a glance over on Igniteshow.com.

Original post on IgniteBerlin.com.

So, we all hate Powerpoint presentations, right? Nevertheless, it’s the de-facto standard in our industry for communicating ideas, proposals and basically everything else we want someone to agree on. It’s the most often required deliverable from clients for the kind of work we do. Sure, everyone is trying to come up with some fancy add-ons to make a difference. A video here, some print-outs or posters there. But most of the time, the presentation deck remains the key component of any kind of presentation.¹

It’s interesting that we all still stick to a concept that goes back to a time when overhead-projectors were considered fancy. That’s where Powerpoint got all its metaphors from.
Time to rethink the whole concept, I’d say. We’re constantly running into problems with presentation decks. Things tend to change last minute. The client or the audience brings up a new issue during the talk and makes your deck instantly outdated. There’s no spontaneity, no room to adapt. This is not how we want to work with our clients. We don’t like to “present” something where we talk them through a deck and they have to listen. We’d rather discuss our approach and adapt it on the fly to whatever feedback, questions and ideas come up. This is why we’re moving more and more away from pure presentation decks².

Our new formula

We actually didn’t set out on purpose to change the way we do presentations. It kind of happened by accident. As you know, we’re big fans of Magic Paper as a tool for brainstormings and thinking through ideas and concepts. So instead of turning a concept we’ve developed on Magic Paper into a deck, we’ve started to bring Magic Paper to the client and redo our thought process for them in a bit more refined and cleaned up version. So far, most clients really like that approach.

First, the disconnect that happens with every transition to the next slide, when we lose the audience for a second while they scan the new one, doesn’t happen anymore. We can draw or write the stuff the second we’re saying it, which helps the audience to remain focussed.
Questions and feedback can be added instantly and become a recorded part of the whole discussion right away, which is very helpful for the post-processing of the meeting results. It also communicates to the client that nothing is fixed and that they should feel free to add.
As we leave each sheet of Magic Paper hanging on the wall, the client and we get a great view at the whole picture and can easily refer to earlier points.
Another big point is that we can’t use slides to navigate through a meeting. All we have are empty sheets of Magic Paper and maybe a scribble in a notebook. We actually have to know our content pretty well so that we don’t forget something. That way, our client knows that we’re really involved in what we talk about and know our stuff without external aid.

After our first experiences, we’re now starting to use Magic Paper as the center of talks and presentations and use decks only where we need a clean picture of something like screenshot etc. My talk on Location-based Services was the first full presentation I gave with that approach and it worked out beautifully. As you can see, I used scribbles to explain the basic concepts and slides to show screenshots of apps and websites. I gave the talk three times and the flip chart always looked a bit different for each talk as the questions and feedback always varied a bit.

So this is how we try to do client presentations and talks now, with a good combination of Magic Paper and presentation decks, using each tool for what it does best. This is a big departure from the usual dog and pony shows that agencies like to give to clients. As we’re constantly moving more and more into business consulting work, we’re also looking for better ways to collaborate with our clients. This is one expression of that change.

Is the iPad the perfect presenter tool?

Nevertheless, we’re already looking for the next iteration of this presentation style. I was really impressed when I saw DJ Spooky present in Belgrade a few weeks back. He used an iPad mirrored to the projector and constantly moved back and forth between his dj app, the browser and a huge collection of photos and slides he had in his picture folder on the iPad. He was constantly improvising and reacting to questions from the audience. He didn’t care about a picture-perfect presentation but wanted to communicate his points in the best ways possible.

This got me thinking about the iPad as a great improvisation tool for presenters. So I’ve bought a VGA adapter and a Bamboo Stylus and will start experimenting with this approach. The stylus in combination with Paper is basically the Magic Paper replacement. Slides will go into the pictures folder. I can easily access further material like studies and examples via Evernote and the browser. Now I’m curious to see how audiences will perceive it. Will it make my talks more interesting or will they get lost in too many formats on screen? I’m going to find out and adapt accordingly.

What else

We’ve wrapped up all the events throughout the last weeks and are back at the office in full project and new biz mode. Now is the time to get in all those nice summer projects. So if you would like us to work on something for you like for example an evaluation of your latest digital activities, a research project on innovation in your market, an inspiring event for your employees, clients or partners or a workshop to future-proof your next steps while you’re lying at the beach, get in contact.

If you need some reading material at the beach: we’ve created a PDF of our social media strategy framework, so you can read it offline. We’ve also made a MOBI and a EPUB file available so your Kindle or other ebook readers won’t go empty.

I will be at the Dachis Social Business Summit in Berlin on Wednesday. If you’re there, too, let me know.

Privacy is intrinsic to democracy; it is necessary for discourse to happen.

-Lane DeNicola, on The Digital Human

I interface from a database, and my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive, and from time to time, I’m radioactive.

-George Carlin

Articles of the week

• The Creators Project: Are Brands The New Medicis?
  The Creators Project is opening up a discussion about the digital arts, and whether the ‘cross-pollination between art and advertising’ can be profitable. An interesting exploration of the influence of branded projects on the evolution of new branches of art, and the relationship between brand and artist.
• Matt Webb: FuelBand for alpha waves
  In this post, Matt Webb, co-founder of BERG, outlines his vision for a product that does for brain activity what the Nike FuelBand does for exercise – a brilliant line of thought.
• Boston.com: Northeastern students create a shirt that knows when you’re slacking off on your workout
  As body sensors become more and more ubiquitous, we see them integrated in more day to day products and in some highly specialized niches. In this case, we see a prototype for a shirt that’s packed with sensors to monitor your body (heart rate and all) for further analysis. While for now this is aimed at elite athletes and other gym rats, we expect to see the technology trickle down to more consumer grade goods quite soon.
• BrainJuicer: Insects, Innovation and Instagram
  For companies, ‘adapt or die’ is one of the guiding principles of the digital age. But since innovation is ‘really, really hard,’ suggesting adaptation is much easier said than done, as is illustrated here by way of bug-related metaphor.
• Kiva: Annual Report
  Kiva is an organization that enables peer-to-peer lending. Users can give microloans to individuals and small businesses, see what they’ve helped to support, and finally get paid back. The annual report gives a great deal of insight into the nature of the market that Kiva is working in, and what can be achieved through this clever use of Internet manpower.

Also interesting: Aleks Krotoski is currently running a seven-part series on BBC Radio 4 called The Digital Human, addressing the impact of the Internet on society and human behavior. Three episodes are up online so far, and are well worth a listen.

May, you mother of all networking possibilities.

To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t fully convinced about the whole idea of having a Berlin Web Week with two conferences tied so closely to each other. It seemed as if it would create somewhat of a stress test for the people trying to be at both conferences, too many work flows, etc. And it did, but I have to say that being part of this web week, I definitely see the benefits.

For a long time now, Berlin enjoy has been enjoying the glory of being Germany’s main address for everything digital. The Berlin Web Week with re:publica and NEXT Conference only highlighted that and gave people here and visitors alike the opportunity to see the full potential.

It’s been a tremendously exhausting week, but one full of many old and new friends, plenty good connections, too many beers and a healthy outlook into the future.

Expanding

We hired someone. While she is still in a contract with somebody else, we will refrain from naming names, but it won’t be a big surprise too you when we will reveal it.

While we started thinking about who and how to hire, we actually didn’t have plans to do so before October of this year. But when opportunities emerge, we like to take them as they come. Sometimes it is more important to see the potential of a situation than sticking to a plan.

And yet, I don’t have any issues admitting that this in fact is a big step for us. It will change the dynamic, we will have to start actually thinking about more then the founding members of this company. If you have any advice to share, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line in the comments. I would love to see a discussion about this emerge.

Additionally to this first hire, we will also have one intern and two new trainees over the course of the next six month. Which brings our head count to a total of 7, although not full-time. Still, seven individuals will perform work under the umbrella of Third Wave and we couldn’t be more exited about things to come.

The internet is human fanfiction.

-James Bridle, at NEXT12

Geography is now only about how far your body is away from your phone.

-Alexander Bard, at NEXT12

Articles of the week

• Huffington Post: An Interview With James Bridle of the New Aesthetic
  James Bridle coined the term “New Aesthetic,” and so is the appropriate person to approach about what it means. For exactly a year, he used a tumblelog by the same name to collect examples of where the virtual overlapped with the tangible to form a new aesthetic. He tells Robert Urquhart of the Huffington Post about his observations in digital culture.
• Deutsche Welle: The Internet of Things and sustainability
  Our friend Martin Spindler, a freelance IoT consultant, tells the Deutsche Welle about what IoT can do for us, and why it’s important to explore the benefits of possible implementations before dismissing them as being too risky in terms of privacy and data security.
• design mind: The Networked Urban Environment
  Jan Chipchase, chief researcher at frog, gives a great primer on networked cities in this article. He shows the opportunities but also explains the questions we have to ask about all the data creation and the involvement of private companies in our shared city lives.
• Selectism: UNIQLO Wake Up App
  Japanese apparel producer UNIQLO shows how brands can add both value for, and touchpoints with, their customers. In this case, they built a gorgeous multi-platform wake up app that pulls in live ambient data to create customized wake up ring tones.
• The Verge: Real-time Facebook ‘likes’ displayed on Brazilian fashion retailer’s clothes racks
  C&A is experimenting with live data in Brazil. They’ve equipped their clothes hangers with a display that tells shoppers how many Facebook likes an item of clothing has received, in real time. It will be interesting to see how this feature affects consumer behavior and whether it catches on. A good example of how IoT might be integrated into everyday life.

Photo: Cognitive Cities by Tam

Why we organize events

Running events is, on many levels, exhausting. There’s an inherent chaos, time pressure, financial restraints, strong communication needs and demands.

Running events is also, on just as many levels, rewarding. The dynamics, the joy of putting something together that matters to people, that helps build connections and fosters collaboration and inspiration, is tremendous. Maybe even a bit addictive.

As you might know, we tend to go with the latter of these two ways to look at things. But why do we put the effort in? Usually, our events are not for profit. We might break even or even turn a small profit, but usually and across events we usually just about even out, and that’s not counting our own time. So these events are a bit of an investment of sorts, and one we’re happy to make.

First, you get to know a whole lot of smart, interesting people. Speakers, participants and fellow organizers, there are many good folks to meet, and organizing events is a pretty smooth way to do it. Giving someone a chance to speak at a big stage can also really be a bit of a leg up for those who are relatively new to the game, and if they’re good at what they’re doing then everyone will be happy for them to get some stage time.

Second, it’s a fantastic way to get inside a topic you knew little about. Doing the research, finding the right speakers and having plenty of conversations along the way, putting together the program for a conference is like a fast track to become a (meta-level) expert for something. Being in the business of helping people understand emerging technologies and behavior changes, running events has turned out to be a perfect vehicle for us. At these events, we explore new topics and help spread ideas from innovators in one field to the early adopter crowd. Then, one step later, we help larger organizations to understand the changes these emerging topics trigger, and identify new business opportunities for them and ourselves.

Also, if somewhat more fluffy, it has the side effect of being invited to other great conferences and parties, and who are we to complain?

How we organize events

Over the last few years, all of us individually and collectively have been involved in all kinds of events, from Barcamps, TEDx and Ignite to larger stuff like our own Cognitive Cities Conference or Next. We did this either as lead organizers, as part of larger collectives, as curators or advisors. We also speak a lot at conferences, and attend even more. In other words, we breathe these kind of events. And so over the years, we’ve learned a few lessons.

These notes go particularly for small to mid-sized events and those with a low or very low budget. If you actually have a fundraiser and a full-time team to throw at organizing something, this might not be the right list for you. That said, what are the tricks, the nitty gritty of how to put together something memorable while working full-time on something else?

• Keep it simple.
  Experimenting with formats is ok, but the easier the better. Simple food and drinks are the best solution as full-on catering tends to use up a fair bit of both budget and time to organize (after all, you’d want to pick the best caterer, sample the food, sort out logistics etc). Make sure to have plenty of vegetarian food, too, as chicken sandwiches aren’t the most exciting lunch. Use simple, self-service buffets if possible, or even just book lots of tables in nearby restaurants. Don’t try to be too artsy about the sign-up process. Simple rules, simple tools.
• Curation is key.
  Selecting the very best speakers, as opposed to the biggest names, makes all the difference. Numbers don’t matter much: Five top notch talks beat ten big names any day. And always consider younger, less experienced but eager speakers too. While it can be a bit of a gamble, the chances of them delivering some unexpected, kick ass talk are good. We always try to go for a healthy mix of more experienced and less well-known, emerging speakers, and our experience so far has been great.
• Treat your speakers like the rockstars they are.
  Particularly if someone agrees to speak for free at your not-for-profit event, they deserve the best, most personal and warm treatment you can possibly give them. Just alright isn’t good enough.
• Not-for-profit is OK!
  If faced with the decision if you should go fully non-profit or try to make a few bucks along the way, opt for the free way. As the saying goes, either charge fully or work for free, never work for cheap. The same goes for conferences.
• Form follows function.
  Things don’t have to be fancy to be great. Get your priorities straight: Do you want people to connect? Provide areas with comfortable chairs or sofas and snacks. Want the speaker presentations to get the full attention? Put up a bigger stage and a big screen. Want to reach as many people as you can? Make sure you have the best documentation you can afford.
• Involve the sponsors.
  If you take on sponsors, make sure not to pick the one that would just throw some money into the pot. While that might sounds tempting, it’s a bad idea. You need partners who want to contribute, and who commit. If you pay attention, you’ll notice early on if a sponsor really wants to help build something great or if they just want their logo up on the screen. If need be, help coach their speakers.
• Communicate clearly.
  I can’t stress this enough: Let everyone know at any time whatever relevant information they need. For speakers, this means clear travel arrangements early on. Participants need to know the logistics and confirmation they’re in, and what to expect. Your team members and volunteers need to know things, too: When to be where, who to call, how much time to set aside at which stage.

What we attended this week

Look back at the week, it’s conference week craze. Under the umbrella of Berlin Web Week, Republica (rp12) and Next joined forces and now basically serve as anchors to a whole slew of smaller web-related events all over town in the past and current week.

We all spent some time at Republica, one of Germany’s first “blogger conferences”, as it used to be called. It’s grown up to be one of the biggest web conferences in the country with some 3-4K participants. If there is one place and time to meet up with half the internet scene in Germany, this is probably it. Timed around Republica there were a bunch of parties, meetups and soirées one or two of us joined for a bit, which leaves us in dire need of a break. (Kidding, keep it coming.)

At Betapitch, as a member of the jury I got to enjoy a fantastic set of startup pitches at Betahaus. The overall level of pitches, the energy, vision and ambition of the presenting teams was great and contagious. It was a particular pleasure to see two teams I know and respect tie at the top, and share the price. Congratulations, Knowable and Somewhere.

So which events are we currently involved with?

Tuesday & Wednesday (8/9 May), Next12 is on. Having put together three tracks as curators, we’re all looking forward to meeting face to face with the speakers and to learn how the audience enjoys our pick.

Friday & Saturday (11/12 May), the Quantified Self-inspired (free and in German) event Digitale Selbstvermessung (sign up here) should be good. With a maximum of 100 participants it’s much more intimate than Republica and Next, so that should be a nice change of pace.

A week later (23 May) Ignite Berlin will bring us an evening of quickfire talks, and I’m really looking forward to this one. We’ll have a speaker list up on the site soon.

Meet you soon, at an event near you.

We don’t exist in a vacuum. People all around us are doing amazing things and provide progressive thinking. We couldn’t do any of our work without a growing network of collaborators. That’s why we’re getting pretty excited about the upcoming two weeks when a big crowd of geeks and tinkerers will descend upon Berlin for a large number of conferences and events. The city buzzing with passionate people is how we like it best.

As we mentioned here before, we’ve been heavily involved in the curation of this years’ edition of the NEXT conference. Peter and Igor have been putting the finishing touches on the programs for their stages. It’s looking mighty good with a lot of people we’re really looking forward to hear speak.
Also, check out the video profiles, our friends at Freunde von Freunden did for NEXT speakers Caroline Drucker and Jeremy Tai Abbott

We’ve also got our own event in collaboration with Hybrid Plattform, coming up right after NEXT called Digitale Selbstvermessung. As we did with CoCities, we love to introduce a fresh topic (like Quantified Self with this one), that we think is going to get really big, to a wider audience. Sign up now for one of the last free seats available (conference language is German).

You can also meet us at republica12 this week and many other events. Please, feel always welcome to say hi.

If you’re visiting Berlin and looking for a good bite, check out Peter’s list of restaurants.

Peter about startups

Peter spoke about the startup culture in Berlin on dradio Wissen last Saturday. Listen in (the show is in German).

Change is the only certainty, today is the slowest rate of change we will ever experience, and those who are most responsive to change stand the greatest chance of survival.

-Jonathan MacDonald

Smart cities will be places that foster creativity, where citizens are generators of ideas, services and solutions, rather than subservient and passive recipients of them.

-Usman Haque

Articles of the week

• The Atlantic: Social Media’s Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships
  There is an interesting, heated discussion taking place on how technology influences the way we interact with other people. Sherry Turkle, on the one hand, believes that we’re increasingly sacrificing true, deep social interaction for superficiality as a result of new technologies. David Banks counters this stance, demonstrating point by point the flaws he sees in Turkle’s argumentation. This article, by Zeynep Tufekci, makes an excellent case for the benefits of social media.
• Wired: How to Spot the Future
  The future is fickle, and hard to predict. Yet there are some patterns that can help us figure out trends early on. All it takes is the effort to look, and these seven guidelines by Wired magazine’s executive editor Thomas Goetz. Hint: If you want to spot the next big thing, look for those ideas/companies/people who fit not just one, but several of these characteristics.
• Co.Design: The Apple Way: How The Second-Gen Nest Thermostat Evolves To Help Users
  The Nest thermostat’s “small, thoughtful improvements that help users” make it an exemplary piece of product design. The designers went out of their way to make the Nest friendlier to use, even inventing a new type of screw (and matching screwdriver) that would allow it to be fixed easily to drywall. Here we see what it means for a company to have its users’ best interests at heart, and how this attitude is the best kind of marketing there is.
• ExtremeTech: Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind.
  You have probably never heard of IPS before. Think of it as the much more precise brother of GPS. And it will have as many – if not more – implications. IPS, or Indoor Positioning System, would let you know not just where a shopping center is, for instance, but where the shops inside it are. This article sketches out some thoughts on how IPS might be applied in interesting ways.
• Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: The Internet Fridge Factor
  In this blogpost, Alexandra discusses product ideas – such as jetpacks and internet fridges – that catch on to an extent in people’s minds, but don’t quite make it to properly useful implementation. See the slideshow at the bottom of the article to find out more about the Internet Fridge Factor’s relevance in terms of the Internet of Things.

Wie bereits angekündigt laden Third Wave und Hybrid Plattform ein zum Event Digitale Selbstvermessung:

Details

11.05.2012, 14:00–18:00 12.05.2012, 10:30–14:30

Beschreibung

Third Wave, Agentur für digitale Strategien, und die Hybrid Plattform, Ort für transdisziplinäre Projekte der UdK Berlin und TU Berlin, veranstalten am 11. und 12. Mai 2012 ein Symposium mit anschließenden Workshops zum Thema Mensch und Datensammlung in den EIT ICT Labs in Berlin.

Mit jedem verkauften Smartphone gewinnt die Thematik der Selbstvermessung und Selbsterfassung an Relevanz und an Brisanz. Es handelt sich dabei um die eigenständige Erhebung und den Vergleich von Zahlen um Körper-, Gesundheits- und Lebensdaten mit Hilfe von digitalen Geräten. Die Anhänger der Quantified Self-Bewegung sind davon überzeugt, dass die Analyse von humanen Daten wie Schlafzeiten, Blutdruck usw. jedem Einzelnen hilft, sein Leben zu verbessern. Die weit verbreitete Bewegung hat weitreichende Auswirkungen, und zwar nicht nur auf den Einzelnen.

Das Symposium am ersten sowie Workshops am zweiten Veranstaltungstag beleuchten die Thematik Mensch und Datensammlung aus den unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln: Welche Daten kann man sammeln und was ist daran ablesbar? Was passiert mit den Daten? Welche gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen hat das Sammeln der Daten? Welche Entwicklungen dieser Technologie zeichnen sich ab? Welche Wissenschaften werden in welcher Tiefe eingebunden?

Diese Fragen möchte die Veranstaltung gewohnt transdisziplinär und hybrid angehen, um durch die produktive Kollisionen neue Erkenntnisse für unsere Zukunft abzuleiten.

Programm

Das Programm wird aus heutiger Sicht wie folgt aussehen, Änderungen und Ergänzungen sind noch möglich:

Freitag, 11.05.2012, 14.00-18.00

• 14:00-14.05 Begrüßung durch Christoph Gengnagel, UdK Berlin
• 14.05-14.10 Begrüßung durch EIT ICT Labs
• 14.15-14.35 Johannes Kleske, Third Wave, Einführung in QS und Feedback Loops
• 14.50-15.10 Kora Kimpel, Professor UdK Berlin
• 15.25-15.45 Florian Schuhmacher, Münchner QS-Gründer
• 16.00-16.20 Yasmina Haryono, Fjord, Datenvisualisierung, Personal Analytics
• 16.35-16.55 Prof. Sebastian Möller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories und TU Berlin, Quantified Self in HCI: Models and Implications
• 17.10-17.30 Daniela Kuka, WiMi UdK Berlin

Samstag, 12.5.2012, 10.30-14.30

• 10.30-10.45 Begrüßung/Vorstellung der Workshops
• 10.45-11.15 Awareness Talk von Ahmet Acar
• 11.15-12.45 Workshops Runde 1
• 12.45-13.00 Pause
• 13.00-14.30 Workshops Runde 2
• 14.30-15.00 kurze Präsentation der Ergebnisse/Abschlussrunde/Feedbackrunde

Workshops geben voraussichtlich: Daniela Kuka, Moritz Greiner-Petter, Wolfgang Spahn, detaillierte Beschreibungen der Workshops finden Sie im Anmeldeformular.

Teilnahme & Anmeldung

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, die Anzahl der Teilnehmer ist auf 100 begrenzt (Link zum Anmeldeformular).

Für einige der Workshops benötigen die Teilnehmer Laptops und/oder Verbrauchsmaterialien. Diese können mit vorbestellt werden; die Bestellung ist verbindlich und muss vor Ort bar bezahlt werden.

Presse & Medienvertreter

Für Journalisten haben wir begrenzt zusätzliche Plätze zu Verfügung. Auch hier erfolgt die Anmeldung über das Anmeldeformular – am Ende des Formulars finden sich die relevanten Formfelder. Für Interviewanfragen richten Sie sich gerne jederzeit an Peter Bihr, Geschäftsführer von Third Wave, oder Marguerite Joly, UdK-Projektkoordinatorin der Hybrid Plattform.

English summary: Together with Hybrid Plattform, we organize a two day event around the idea of the quantified self, self-tracking and personal analytics. It’s a two day event, held predominently in German, in Berlin on May 11/12 with one half day of talks and one half day of hands-on workshops.