Upcoming FITC Events
The FITC team has been busy lately crafting new events and tweaking old ones. First the new event, Emerging Technology & Advertising or ETA for short. The speaker line-up is stellar: David-Michael Davies, Derrick de Kerckhove, Joshua Harris, Christie Nicholson, Evan Roth, Marco Tempest and Faris Yakob. This is a very different event from our usual fare. Limited number of tickets and you must apply to get one. The reasoning here is to keep things focused and intimate but also to allow some different approaches. Most notably is that all attendees will be sitting in groups at round tables. The speakers will rotate between those tables after each presentation and the group will have a chance to discuss the presentation. There's a lot of thought going into ETA and how we can better leverage the power of having people together in a room. If technology and advertising are you're thing, I'd suggest you apply now. ETA takes place on Oct 14 in Toronto.
The tweaked event is Screens, formerly known as FITC Mobile. There's no denying the iPad took computing well beyond the desktop and the mobile phone and into a whole new space. Add ot that the various approaches to altering the television viewing paradigm with Apple TV, Google TV and the ever evolving game consoles and we suddenly have a world of interactivity that extends far beyond your office and your pocket. Hence the new name, Screens. There is a wide variety of content from mobile to tablets, from iOS to Android to mobile web development. It's all in there. If you're already working in some of these spaces that go beyond the standard web or if you are just starting to explore the worlds beyond your website, Screens will have information to help you on your journey.
And we're not done. Stay tuned for more new stuff soon, announcements about NXNEi 2012 or catch as at our Adobe MAX Unconference or RIAUnleashed in Boston.