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  • Transforming Media

    Transforming Media The world of media is changing, we all know this. What are the real changes occurring and where are the forces for this change coming from? Come out to hear the truth about this...

  • Digital Pioneers

    Pitch Digital Pioneer Academy 2007, Presentation 'Open Doors' book

    Since April 2007 eleven projects are working on their Digital Pioneer Businessplan. During this event, the projects will each present their plans to a group of experts and compete for three prizes...

  • PICNIC Green Moment: The Flight of the Future

    Elfrieke van Galen, Senior Vice President - Corporate Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

    What is the future of travel? How can an airline be green? KLM involved PICNIC visitors in a brainstorming session on the flight of the future.

  • Heroes of the Information Economy — the Makers

    Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

    With the rise of the internet and digital technology, we have not only been given the power to produce and distribute digital content, we now have new tools to make things.

  • Virtual Worlds

    What do virtual worlds mean for brands

    Once the stuff of science fiction, virtual worlds are becoming central to the future of marketing, technology, entertainment and brand-building. Consumers desire to be engaged in a dialogue with the...

  • Review of the Tools

    Review of the Tools

    Together with public broadcaster VPRO and many other media and service partners, PICNIC’07 intends to be an incredibly well covered event, using all the web 2.0 tools available.

  • Presence – Being Alive on the Network

    Marleen Stikker, Laurin Herr, Tom A DeFanti and Naohisa Otha

    Going to the movies is about to become an extremely intense experience. The newest generation of digital cinema technology, 4K cinema, is four times better than HDTV and vastly superior to normal...

  • Create More Using Public Content

    Images for the Future

    The largest Dutch digitization of audio-visual content project 'Images for the Futures' has started in July 2007. Over 137.000 hours of video, 22.510 hours of film, 123.900 hours of audio and 2.9...

  • Case Study: Minimally Invasive Education through…

    Dr. Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University (United Kingdom/India)

    Creativity and play are closely connected, and play can be a form to arrive at collaborative creativity. In this session, Dr Sugata Mitra, know from the ‘Hole in the Wall’ project, will share with us...

  • Future Technology Trends

    Bruno Giussani, Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, Nikolaj Nyholm of Polar Rose, Alexander Straub of Pixsta, Arnold Smeulders of Multimedian

    In this demo session, four industry leaders will show their technologies and share their ideas on the future of information interfaces.

  • Demo and Discussion: Recognition

    Nikolaj Nyholm, Alexander Straub and Arnold Smeulders

    After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that could herald the end of the point-and-click era.

  • Fablab Launch Meeting

    Meet Neil Gershenfeld and other Fabbers

    The Dutch FabLab Network will gather to meet Neil Gershenfeld. Anybody interested in FabLab is welcome! Just sign up!

  • Creative Genius: Things I have learned in my life…

    Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer and Typographer, Sagmeister Inc (AT)

    Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister has a slightly different way of looking at things.

  • A User’s Guide to the 21st Century

    Alex Steffen, co-founder Worldchanging, and Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century

    Though many people are working on tools, models and ideas for a better future, often they are not connected. PICNIC'07 and the PICNIC Green Challenge aim to connect great green ideas, creative...

  • Augmented Reality for Advertisers

    Ferhan Cook, Eduardo Dias, Ydreams; David Polinchock, Brand Experience Lab; Jeroen Mol, Total Immersion

    Augmented reality is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real world and computer generated data. Most AR research is concerned with the use of live video imagery which is...

  • (Un)common Ground - Scale and Intimacy

    Expert meeting

    The meeting will take place on the 24 Sept. (1 - 5pm) and 25 Sept. (9am - 5pm) in Amsterdam. Announcing (Un)common Ground – Scale and Intimacy, the latest in a series of expert meetings designed to...

  • Keynote: The Cult of the Amateur

    Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur (UK)

    In ‘The Cult of the Amateur’, Keen aims to show how today’s Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy. The Web 2.0 revolution is delivering superficial observations of the world...

  • Demo: From pictures to 3D worlds – Photosynth

    Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect, Microsoft Live Labs

    Using photos of subjects gathered from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Imagine hundreds of...

  • PICNIC Green Moment

    Woody Harrelson, actor and activist

    The world needs to embrace a new greener lifestyle. One bright idea can make a big difference. Join us and help save the planet!

  • Design wonderful things

    Chee Pearlman, Ben Fry, Shari Swan, Matt Webb, Bruce Sterling

    Hosted by Chee Pearlman Director of Chee Company (United States)

  • Fablab Workshop: Friday

    A FabLab is a public enterable space with digital fabrication machines to make (almost) anything you want...

  • CineGrid Special

    Afternoon seminar including demo of 4K cinema

    CineGrid Amsterdam will develop a facility for the production and screening of digital cinema on a very high quality level. To do so the participation is needed of many partners: scientific

  • Demo: Implementing Science Fiction

    Pablos Holman, Founder, Komposite

    Pablos Holman is a futurist, IT security expert, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design...

  • Day of the Media Labs (invitation only)

    Collaborative Innovation: Redefining the Media Lab and the Community

    The Amsterdam based Media Guild is proud to be (co) organiser of the following events at PICNIC ’07.

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