eComm America 2010 (April 19-21): Not your father's telecom conference
Next week, the Bay Area will host eComm America 2010, a 3-day conference founded by Lee S. Dryburgh, a telecommunications engineer and communications visionary who sought to create a forum where new thinking in the fields of telecom, mobile and internet communications can all occur in one place.
eComm 2008 (Credit: eComm Media, Inc.)
In 2008, the inaugural eComm event drew 300 people at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. In 2009, it was also exported to Europe . This year's event, which will kick off on Monday, April 19th, will be held at the San Francisco Airport Marriott.
With about 80 speakers confirmed, the high speaker to attendee ratio of this event should make for a intimate and productive gathering. The sessions topics look promising and many resemble what you would expect from (now defunct) ETech rather than a typical telecom conference. For instance, the third day is exclusively focused on augmented reality.
Below are a few example sessions planned at next week's eComm:
- The National Broadband Plan and the Future of the Internet- Carlos Kirjner, Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- An Anthropologist's Eye for the Tech Guy: Emerging Market Opportunities in a Post-BRIC World - Dawn Nafus, Anthropologist, Intel
- What Can Cities be Like When Everything Talks - Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, MIT
- Making Music with the World on the iPad and iPhone - Ge Wang, Co-founder/CTO/Assistant Prof., Smule/Stanford
- Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact: How Computer Vision Will Change AR and the World - Ben Newhouse, Yelp
- Seeing the Future of AR Through Digital Eyewear - Yohan Baillot, Consultant, (Independent)
- Eyeborg - Terminator Lives - Rob Spence, Eyeborg Project
Check out the eComm blog for videos from previous event.