Posted in Events on May 26th, 2008
It has been a busy week and its taken me a while to post my experiences and impressions from the global Pangea Day event. There were about 130-150 people gathered at the Thoughtworks office in Bangalore to watch 40 selected short movies that intended to change the world, to bring people together and to get [...]
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Posted in Bangalore events, Events, Networking on May 11th, 2008
I came across an interesting global event called Pangea Day that seeks bring people together through films! And you can participate in this from wherever you are in the world. Even back home in Bangalore at the Thoughtworks office at Airport road.
Pangea Day - as the organizers put it - is a global event bringing [...]
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I am looking forward to KAMP today. KAMP is an event using the barcamp format focussed and themed on Knowledge Management.
This going to be very interesting. A quick look at the registrants gives me a feeling that many of the participants are from a “corporate” background and may not be familiar with the barcamp format [...]
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Posted in Barcamp, CIO, Events, Project Management on Nov 22nd, 2007
Barcamps are now spreading like wild fire in the country. After the usual suspects - New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune - we now move on to a Barcamp at GOD’s own country - Kerala!
And typical of all things I have know with Keralites, the creativity flows… Check out the Barcamp campaign poster…. Its [...]
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If you haven’t heard about it yet…. here’s what you should know….
Barcamp Bangalore (BCB) is back! - it christened the 2007 Winter edition! After Barcamp Bangalore 4 (BCB4 for some), we decided that BCB ought to be regular periodic event. Something that the tech community would look forward to… to participate and share…. to meeting [...]
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Project Management is serious business worldwide if one were to go purely by the number of conferences that happen around the world. And it is increasing becoming a challenge to keep track of these and glean take aways from each them being located in one part of the world.
There are at least 10 more conferences [...]
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Barcamp Bangalore 3 is around the corner. If you have heard about the buzz and wondering what it is all about? Look no further…
Rajan and I (both part of the organizing team for BCB3) decided to put together a brief write up to describe what Barcamps are about and why are they organized. [...]
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The tech community of Bangalore is back to organize the third edition of the popular Barcamp Bangalore event. The event has pan-Indian following and has in the past had many tech enthusiasts fly in from around the world to participate. The event is planned for the 30th March and 1st April 2007.
This Barcamp Bangalore edition [...]
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Posted in Events, Technology on Dec 2nd, 2006
Kiruba Shankar spoke about the upcoming Proto.in conference - a conference billed with the theme - Create, Collaborate, Contribute. The conference is on the 20th, 21st January 2007 at IIT Madras.
The organizers say this is inspired by Demo (The launchpad for emerging technologies). Here’s a summary of what this event is all about.
They intend to [...]
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Posted in Bangalore, Events, Technology on Nov 17th, 2006
Its back again in Bangalore on the 2nd and 3rd of December. For the uninitiated Barcamp is an “unconference”. In simple english it is a gathering of technology enthusiasts who get together and share thoughts, ideas and emerging trends. The intent is to have an informal environment where the conference schedule is put together on [...]
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