Today I’m attending Frontiers of Interaction V conference in Rome, a great event that each year brings together all the innovators and interaction designers.
Each year they chose a theme, and 2009’s is “smart cities, internet of things and social networking”.
The program is very interesting:
09,30 Welcome message from Leeander & Matteo Penzo
09:40 Bruce Sterling (Video) | Science Fiction Writer
||| About the Real Frontiers of Interaction |||
09:50 Fabio Sergio | Creative Director FROG DESIGN
||| Sing the Body Electric|||
10:10 Daniele Galiffa & Manuel Lima | Infovis + VISUAL COMPLEXITY
||| Discover the beauty of visual complexity in the age of infinite interconnectedness |||
10:30 Antonio Tombolini | CEO at Simplicissimus
||| Tutto parla: impara ad ascoltare le cose |||
10:50 Demo Site.
11:00 coffee break
11:20 Roberto Bonzio | Journalist at Reuters
||| “Frontiers Italians” |||
11:40 Riccardo Luna | WIRED ITALIA Director
||| ItAliens |||
12:00 KEYNOTE: Adam Greenfield | Author of “Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing”
||| Elements of a networked urbanism |||
12:30 David Orban | European Lead, Singularity University.
||| The Consciousness Panopticon |||
12,50 …video
13,00 Lunch
14:15 Joe Ferrari (Web Art Director di Wave Group) | Korinami (Sound Designer)
||| MUSIC & Video Live performance |||
14:30 KEYNOTE: Davide Bocelli & Alex Rose (video) | Long Now Foundation
||| La Long Now Foundation |||
15:00 Andrea Gaggioli | Università Cattolica di Milano
||| “Ecologia Partecipativa” |||
15:20 Matt Jones | Founder DOPPLR
||| The New Negroponte Switch |||
15,40 Coffee Break
16:00 Max Ramaciotti, Davide Casali & Luca Lisci | Maison,the
||| Community di Percorso: Pollicino nel bosco crossmediale |||
16:20 Carlo Maria Medaglia | Università La Sapienza, CATTID
||| Ubiquitous Computing |||
16:40 Luca Simeone & Salvatore Iaconesi | Vianet + Rhizome
||| Ubiquitous Anthropology |||
17:00 Andrea Vaccari | Senseable City Lab, MIT Boston
||| The Real Time City |||
17:20 Luisella Giani | Country Manager Italy Netlog
||| Web Celebrity |||
17:40 Conclusions with Leeander, Matteo, Carlo
18:00 End
I will try to write about the most important and cool stuff that comes out today, and maybe interview some entrepreneurs.
They also offer live streaming of the event.
Update: Online the first batch of pics.
