On February
10th 2009 at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in New York City, I
will be producing a new summit, an event Im calling SocComm - The Social Communications
Summit. At SocComm, we will explore the state of Social
Communications, where things are headed in the future and where the
money is today and will be tomorrow.
The topics at
SocComm will span across: Media / Internet / Communications /
Entertainment, something I call the "MICE" space. SocComm
will have a mixture of individual talks, on-stage interviews /
conversations and a number of group chat sessions.
I am asking
each of the selected speakers to address an area within the emerging
Social Communications space which they are the most passionate
about. My focus is on pulling together passionate people about
various related topics with the intention of focusing on the passion
and avoiding the situation of having someone directly pitching their
company/product/application/service during their talk.
We are living
in a time where our phones have become social communication devices.
Presence is
quickly becoming the trigger point for communication. I grew up in
an era where the dial-tone on my home phone meant something to me.
Today and in the future I believe that Presence is the new Dial-tone
and that more and more communication sessions will happen because of
presence. The evolution of presence has huge implications for a
number of industries, including: advertising, media and telecom.
It turns out
that Social Communications is a pretty broad term which could mean
many things to many people, and I am fine with this. What I hope to
explore at my new event are the pieces of Social Communications that
mean the most to my friends and their friends and together help
define a new industry.
