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Chicago New Media Summit - Sept 15-16

Posted by Chris under CNMS08, Conference, Research, Social Networking, Technology

CNMS08

How the heck did I miss (or almost miss) this one. Thanks Russ and Thanks David

for telling Russ about this great event, incidentally David is speaking at this. Some of the usual chicago tech suspects are signed up to speak: Jason from 37 Signals, Jake and Jeffrey from SkinnyCorp/Threadless, Ross and Mike from crowdSPRING, well you get the picture.

John Patterson, the organizer is billing this as “widescale network of people and industries that allows us all to benefit from our shared ideas and expertise; the intent being that as Chicago becomes known globally as a new media hub, we all benefit.” I certainly like the sound of that. As well as the comparison to making Chicago a New Media capital much like Austin is is an arts/music capital. Tall boots to fill but this fall conference/meetup/TEDish summit may just be the spark to the flame.

Something else supercool, well they are using Ning (you know I’m a big fan of Ning) for the website, forums and social networking around the summit. There’s already about 1000 members of the CNMS08 Website community and it seems to be hitting a ground swell of growth.

Seats are limited to 300 invitations only! That’s right invitation only. However, the first 60 seats, of which as of this writing there are handful left are available on a first come/first serve. There will be 36 presentations, capped at 18 minutes each, I hope that John is as tough as Richard with the hook and I’ve ponied up my $425 already, figured even if I get accepted to speak I’d rather be safe then sorry.

But don’t take my word for it, well do but also make sure you check it out.