Internet Week New York
The week of June 7th in New York City is Internet Week. I’m not really sure what’s Internet about it. With events like “The future of location based marketing”, “Intelligent Social Media Marketing”, and “The Hollywood Reporter’s Digital Power 50 Cocktail Reception”, Internet Week sounds a bit more like “douchebag” week, no offense to douchebags.
It’s clear from the itinerary that Internet Week really isn’t about making things for the internet, it’s about marketing them. And networking with other people who are interested in marketing things.
As someone who works in the Internet technology landscape, Internet Week does not sound appealing to me at all, and aren’t I the kind of person that this should appeal to?
Smart people using technology to make smart things, that’s the Internet Week I want to attend.
I don’t attend many (any) conferences, and I’ve poked around some NY meetups from time to time, but if I were some kind of conference organizer, I’d really be interested in making a… I believe it’s called an unconference. During Internet Week, why not have a separate track of events geared towards technologists, about technology. NoSQL, Geo, HTML5, all of that awesome stuff that is not represented on the official schedule for Internet Week.
Kyle Bragger, Ted Roden, Matt Langer, I am looking in your direction. Ted, I’m putting you on the spot as an organizer of arguably New York’s only tech-focused meetup (that I promise to attend next month). What do you guys think?
Would anybody in New York be interested in attending these events?
Sad that there doesn’t seem to be a single purely technology-oriented panel in the entire schedule. (Did I miss it?) I’d be game to help organize an alternate event geared towards making things vs. talking about making things. Who else is in?
