WIN 20 009€ AND MORE – LAST DAYS TO ENTER!

The MindTrek Launchpad competition will award the most innovative Finnish digital media product, demo or concept – and the people behind it, who have the urge to make it big.

The prize is 20 009 € and business sparring, internationalization, growth and financing services provided by MindTrek partners Tekes, Finnvera, Technopolis Ventures, Finpro, Diges, Lexia, and Hermia.

Act NOW! The deadline for the entries is August 16th!
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/launchpad

NOKIA UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD DEADLINE EXTENSION!

The deadline for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award (7 000 €) has been extended until August 21st, so keep developing and keep the entries coming in!
http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/ubimedia

Remember also the Apps for Democracy Finland (13 000 €) competition, deadline August 31st.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME PUBLISHED

Find the preliminary conference programme at http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/programme. Still under construction, with some changes possible.

FIRST LIST OF SPEAKERS

Check out the confirmed speakers on our new speakers reel at: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/conference.

ADAM GREENFIELD IN MINDTREK

Adam Greenfield is co-founder of Do Projects, author of "Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing” and the forthcoming "The City Is Here For You To Use", and currently works as head of design direction for service and user interface design at Nokia.

Adam has been exploring issues at the intersection of technology, design and culture for the last ten years, with a particular interest in the implications of ubiquitous computing for urban form and metropolitan experience. He will speak at MindTrek on Friday afternoon, October 2nd.

“Adam Greenfield is intense, engaged, intelligent and caring. I pay attention to him. I counsel you to do the same.” (Howard Rheingold)

IDO GUY FROM IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB

Ido currently manages the Social Technologies group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab, which he joined in 2000. He started his work as a student at the Verification Technologies and Asset Management groups, and then joined the Collaboration Technologies group in 2004.

He leads various projects in the group dealing with synchronous collaboration and social networks architecture previously to becoming a manager. He is co-author of conference and journal papers in the fields Data Mining, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Recommender Systems.

Ido’s research interests include social network analysis, search and recommender systems, collaborative applications, web mining, and graph algorithms. He is speaking at MindTrek on Thursday, October 1st.

ACADEMIC MINDTREK

Academic MindTrek has accepted the following two tutorials:

“Creating game bots in a few easy steps”, Ondrej Burkert, Jakub Gemrot, Micha Bida, Rudolf Kadlec, Cyril Crom, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

“Game Design for Social Networks”, Aki Järvinen, mygamestudies.com / IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Keep an eye on the website for further updates to the academic programme: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/academic/programme

REGISTER

By registering now you can secure your place in the number one digital event of the year (Oct 1-2 + Sep 30). Registration ends on the 15th of September 2009.  http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/registration

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