Conference

Want to learn more about the smartphone and tablet business? Check out our Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit on June 26th in San Francisco.

The event will feature speakers including: Niranjan Nagar of Strategic Partner Manager for Games at Facebook; Clay Kellogg Head of Mobile Platform and Partnerships at Google; Rob Carroll, director of publishing at Tapjoy; Jude Gomila, co-founder or Heyzap; and Blair Hamilton, head of studios at CrowdStar.

Here is more about the event: “The Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit is a single day conference focused on the emerging smartphone and tablet games space.As the power and revenue of the industry continues to shift from retail to instant downloadable delivery, the rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in a true renaissance in gaming. This new breed of gamer represents a massive audience that cuts across age, gender and demographic boundaries.”

Register by May 24th and save $200.

Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

If you haven’t made plans to attend the Tools of Change Conference, which is coming up in another few weeks, be prepared to drool with envy. O’Reilly will be having an eReader petting zoo on the last day of the conference, and we already have a couple dozen devices waiting to go on display.

Over the past couple months I have been working with Joe Wikert to bring together various tablet and eReader manufacturers. I’ve also dipped into my collection to provide some eReader that you might not see elsewhere.

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An art exhibit will be opening on Sunday in Lyon, France, and I really wish I could attend. There’s going to be a new type of digital art on display alongside the many examples of contemporary, traditional and experimental artwork.

A visual artist by the name of Nora Boudjemaï will have one of her latest works on display (in booth 33 from September 13th to the 18th). She will also be present and she will be working with a new prototype electronic art tablet.

While I don’t have specifics on the device she’ll be using, I suspect that it will look something like the one at right. That electronic tablet was developed by Tebaldo, a tech company that is investigating new opportunities created by epaper screens. The tablet is based on a Bridgestone screen similar to the ones which were on display at CES 2011.

If anyone has a chance to visit the booth and see the new tablet in action, please let us know. Pictures would be deeply appreciated by all who could not attend.

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credit: the above photo was shot in November 2011 by Patricia Despagne and the artist is Thomas Duchêne

Do you have any plans for Friday? If you can move them to the south of France, then I know of a workshop you might want to attend.

The International Festival of the Book of Art and Film is being held this year in Perpignan, France from June 30th to July 3rd. Part of the festivities include a 1 day workshop on the future of digital art. The workshop will be a mix of discussions, demonstrations, and there’s a chance that some new technology might make an appearance.

The workshop has 3 sessions and it’s open to the public. If you attend, please take pictures and let us know what you think.

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Today Overdrive announced that the self acclaimed author and self-publisher J.A. Konrath will be a featured speaker at Digipalooza 2011. J.A. Konrath has authored 22 eBook titles that are available through OverDrive as well as Amazon and other eBookstores.

Digipalooza is a biennial conference held by Overdrive, the digital library service provider. The 2011 conference will be in Cleveland and will include a Publisher Roundtable where industry leaders will discuss and field questions about the evolving business of eBooks and digital media and  librarian-led sessions on how public libraries are benefiting from the eBook explosion, as well as other sessions.

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IntertechPira has just announced that it will be hosting its first eReader conference in San Francisco, Calif., on September 29-30.

The rapid adoption of eReader technology is having a profound effect on how information is obtained, distributed, stored and consumed. Although eReaders have been around for some time, a recent increase in consumer awareness combined with reduced costs for the devices have allowed the technology to move into the mainstream. eReaders 2011 will unite all facets of the industry in one location to discuss the issues and opportunities currently facing the eReaders market.

The conference agenda is still under development, and IntertechPira is currently recruiting speakers.

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