So… here we go! Yes the Futuresonic Festival is finally underway. I shall be attempting to cover as much of the Social Media Summit as we head into the next couple of days.
But there’ll also be content tagged all over the place with the #futr09 whether you’re Friendfeeders, Flickrs, Qik streamers, tweeters or whatever – this is one Manchester festival that will be hard to miss.
Things for me kick off tonight with the Hacking the Earth speech from Jamais Cascio who promises to “cover the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation, focusing on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking.” More of that shortly – all technology allowing, I should be able to update you live from the Contact Theatre in a few hours time.
The full timetable for the summit is here and a couple of events have already caught my eye.
Tomorrow’s talk on the Next Generation Broadband (11.45am in Space 2) and Convergence and the role of the public sector (12pm, also space 2) sound like must attend events as does Friday’s session with Ewan McIntosh of 4ip (11.35 on Friday) and the Semantic Web: Cultural Algorithms Panel (16.20 on Friday)
The event is also being blogged by Martin Bryant and his innovative team of Festival Rangers who will be pouring content into social media platforms which will be aggregated at FriendFeed.
Find out more about their activity here.
See you all shortly.