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Preview: Big Omaha 2010

By | May 13, 2010, 11:24am PDT

For the next few days, I will be stationed in the midwest covering the 2nd annual Big Omaha.

Jeff Slobotski

I had a chance to chat with Big Omaha founder Jeff Slobotski last month to learn what this conference is all about and what his organization is doing.

Here is what’s in store for this year’s event:

Friday

8:00 a.m. Doors Open, Breakfast provided by PayPal X Developer Network

9:00 Jeff Slobotski & Dusty Davidson, Co-founders of Big Omaha & Silicon Prairie News

9:10 Roger Fransecky, Founder & CEO of The Apogee Group

9:30 David Hauser, Co-Founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs

10:00 Scott Belsky, Founder and CEO of Behance

11:15 Scott Harrison, Founder of charity: water

1:30 Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Automattic – Interviewed by Robert Scoble, Blogger, technical evangelist and Managing Director of building43

2:00 Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of Wine Library TV & Co-Founder of Vaynermedia

3:15 Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder of IndieGoGo

3:50 Jason Fried, Co-Founder of 37signals

4:20 Extended Speaker Q&A

6:00 Delivering Happiness Happy Hour with Tony Hsieh at Urban Wine Company

9:00 Big Party presented by Nomad Lounge & Archrival at Nomad Lounge

Saturday

8:00 a.m. Doors open, breakfast provided by PayPal X Developer Network

9:00 Jeff Slobotski & Dusty Davidson

9:10 Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare

9:45 Melody McCloskey, Co-Founder of StyleSeat

10:20 Entrepreneur Panel (Alexa Andrzejewski, Founder of Foodspotting; Justin Shaffer, CEO and Founder of Hot Potato; Matt Galligan, CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo)

11:40 Tony Hsieh, Author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos

I’ll be covering it right here on The Web Life.

If there is a speaker in particular that you want me to cover, please let me know in the comments.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Biography

Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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RE: Preview: Big Omaha 2010
Andrew Mager 13th May 2010
@TAPhilo I think there will be steaks.
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RE: Preview: Big Omaha 2010
TAPhilo 13th May 2010
And yet after reading this, i still have no clue what "Big Omaha" is about - or is it steaks?
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RE: Preview: Big Omaha 2010
Andrew Mager 13th May 2010
@TAPhilo I think there will be steaks.
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RE: Preview: Big Omaha 2010
Badgered 13th May 2010
I??????ll be covering it right here on The Web Life.

You go on ahead and cover it.... whatever it is.
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RE: Preview: Big Omaha 2010
Andrew Mager 13th May 2010
@Badgered It's a web conference happy

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