das BarCamp Internationales UXcamp am 29. und 30.5.
der Kongress webinale vom 31.5. bis zum 2.6.
das Internet Film Fest webcuts am 1.6.
das Deutsche-Startups-Netzwerktreffen Echtzeit am 1.6.
das Social Media Treffen Twittwoch am 2.6.
der medienpolitische media.net Event am 3.6.
das BarCamp ProductCamp Berlin am 5.6.
die HighScalability Konferenz BerlinBuzzWords am 7. und 8.6.

Gerne möchten wir auch eine BerlinWebNight in einem Club/Lounge organisieren (Ort/Datum noch festzulegen – Vorschläge?) Wir würden uns über Informationen zu weiteren Events freuen, die Leute von außerhalb anregen, nach Berlin zu kommen und vielleicht etwas länger zu bleiben.
Eins steht jedenfalls fest wenn man den Kalender anschaut: in Berlin ist in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2010 extrem viel los – um nur mal die großen Events zu benennen – momentan die re:publica, dann die next, kurz vor der BerlinWebWeek die droidcon, direkt nach der BerlinWebWeek die ITProfits… Berlin ist deutsche Internethauptstadt.

The bcc, designed by the Bauhaus Student and probably most well known East German architect Hermann Henselmann, lends itself very well to conferences like this. It is small enough to not feel lost inside and has an open atmosphere. That it is located in the very center of Berlin is another point for it. It suited the feeling of the webinale, many tracks to choose from and lots of networking opportunities. I was there every day for at least half a day, from the first startupday on monday to the following full conference days. I missed the webinale crawl, 3 parallel guided office tours through Berlin-based web companies but I look forward to join next year. Looking for food for thought I joined the keynotes of Ossi Urchs and the one from Karlheinz (call me Charly) Toni, the Austrian CEO of the British startup Piins. Piins is his 2nd project after Miomi.

Karlheinz Toni, CEO of Piins

Toni’s key note topic was “The flaw of the internet and modern communication“. It started out well with some maths about exponential functions and their relation to the internet and its growths resp. question, whether its growths (data flow) could be accomodated by the technical infrastructure/standards. However, at some place it turned into how contents can be combined and displayed on the same page/window. ..which is where Piins comes into play. I enjoyed the start of his speech, he was very entertaining and invited everybody to visit him and his team on his houseboat Nr. 10 in London.
An invitation to play was the keynote of Kevin Slavin from areacode. Areacode produces cross-media games and entertainment, his examples were entertaining and thought provoking. A member of areaplay is also involved in botanicalls, a device enabling plants to twitter and text messaging. His scarce use of powerpoint was also enjoyable.

Kevin Slavin of areacode