Posts Tagged ‘Rafi Haladjian’

mg // 07.08.2009

Events2go – next conference: The Power of Sharing

Organized by SinnerSchrader, the next conference in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is one of the most important networking and trend conferences within the European web industry. It is the only conference that unites the Internet community with brands and leading companies. One of the people behind next is Martin Recke, next conference manager and Head of Corporate Communications at SinnerSchrader.



Amongst others, the speakers of next09 were Mathys van Abbe, Markus Berger-de León, Rafi Haladjian, Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, Darius Miranda, Marco Ripanti, Axel Schmiegelow, Katarina Skoberne, Renato Valdes Olmos, Martin Szugat, Henriette Weber as well as Jeff Jarvis - blogger and author of What Would Google Do?



If you missed next09 or cannot wait to attend the next next conference, don't lose heart ;) there are only 270 days until next10! The event will take place at Kampnagel Hamburg on May 4 & 5 and will kick off with a Pre-Conference Day on May 4 and some visionary keynote speeches. The Main Conference Day with the full-fledged programme including four parallel tracks is scheduled for May 5. Over the next few months, the main topics and motto for next10 will be announced and a Call for Participation will be kicked off. If you register now you get 50% off! For more information or support just write an e-mail to next10@next10.de

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mg // 17.07.2009

Events2go – PICNIC: Three days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation

The countdown is on for PICNIC09: There are still 67 days to go until the fourth edition of PICNIC will take place on September 23-25, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. This year’s event will be focusing on new media, mobile technologies and the changes produced by the clash of the old and new world.

PICNIC is a festival with a cutting edge conference program featuring keynotes, interactive experiences and matchmaking sessions designed to evoke an emotional reaction through "quirky surprises". The PICNIC09 speaker line-up features amongst others Philip Zimbardo, Niklas Zennström, Gerd Leonhard, Tomi Ahonen and Jeff Jarvis.

PICNIC09 will be featuring two big competitions: The Green Challenge, a global competition for the most innovative products or services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Vodafone Mobile Clicks finale, awarding 150,000 Euros to the most innovative mobile applications. To get in touch with the PICNIC team write to info [at] crossmediaweek.org. Click here to buy tickets.

Among the many successful entrepreneurs and creative minds that have been interviewed by Tiburon-TV's Viktoria at PICNIC08 was Jure Cuhalev - founder of Zemanta, inventor of smart rabbit Nabaztag Rafi Haladjian as well as Philip Rosedale - creator of the virtual world Second Life. Click here for all of Viktoria’s interviews from PICNIC08.



Next Friday's "Events2go" will be covering Slush conference in Helsinki - an event for startups by startups. Stay tuned!
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mg // 29.06.2009

The Five Most Inspiring Authors, Lateral Thinkers and Visionaries

Do you ever struggle for inspiration...the spark you need to be innovative? Here are five bold authors and visionaries and their thought-provoking books: Jeff Jarvis, Don Tapscott, Rafi Haladjian, Henriette Weber and Tara Hunt.

Jeff Jarvis’ exceptional book „What would Google do?“ isn’t really about Google but about the major changes that we are going through right now both in society and in the economy. It offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to participate in the Internet culture and to maximize the opportunities that exist in the Google era.

Don Tapscott’s „Wikinomics“ is a brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of the twenty-first century: Mass collaboration and the growth of massive online communities. It illuminates how collaboration and communication technologies are democratizing the creation of value: The more you share, the more you win.

French-Armenian businessman Rafi Haladjian is passionate about pervasive networks and smart objects: His company Violet created the first internet connected rabbit Nabaztag and intends to connect every single object surrounding us to the network thereby building the Internet of Things.

Social marketing rebel extraordinaire Henriette Weber from Toothless Tiger draws parallels between rockbands and businesses, rockstars and employees. Her e-book „Why every company should be a rock band“ has been filmed by Andrea Vascellari and can be downloaded for free here.

„Whuffie“ is Tara Hunt’s word for social capital in the Web 2.0 landscape. With „The Whuffie Factor“ the cofounder of community-marketing consulting firm Citizen Agency offers a strategic guide for anyone interested in using the power of online social networks for business success.

Female entrepreneurs have it tougher than men: Next Monday we'll be introducing "The Five Most Promising Female Entrepreneurs". Stay tuned!
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vt // 27.10.2008

Second Life: better than the real world? – Philip Rosedale @ picnic

"... a lot of human activity will be replaced with an equivalent in the virtual world..." and “The question is whether you’re being challenged and learning in a way that is less than or greater than the Real World experience ... I think that virtual worlds, like Second Life, have the potential to provide a more challenging intellectual environment than, in many cases, the Real World around you. And so time spent in the Virtual World, I suspect, will come to be almost an educational requirement rather than something that is viewed as potentially a problem for you.” that are statements by Second Life's founder Philip Rosedale, who after 9 years of intensively working on Second Life decided to take a step backward and passing the position of the CEO to someone else. In this way he is now able to focus more on the strategical development of SL, which includes ideas like enabling small entrepreneurs from development countries a business opportunity through SL. Learn more about his ideas in the following interview:
picnic conference amsterdam I met Philip Rosedale at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. There creative minds from all over the world came together from September 24th to 26th to intensively discuss and share ideas and thoughts.
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vt // 02.10.2008

violet.net – Rafi Haladjian

At the picnic conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, I met Rafi Haladjian, a successfull serial entrepreneur. With his actual company violet he explodes the boundaries between technology and daily life, focussing on the connection of the virtual and physical world, making applications more fun than just smart - as the Nabaztag rabbit demonstrates.
NabaztagImage via Wikipedia Nabaztag is the Armenian word for rabbit, there is a special Nabazblog telling for example that there is now also a black Nabaztag version available. The little cute rabbit has a wide range of functionalities for example he can update you about the twitter status of your friends. Mir:ror or mirror, the new product of violet, is a USB-pluggable RFID reader which is able to connect everything you own. Making it possible that a tagged umbrella launches the weather forecast if you hold it next to the mirror. See here, here and there for reviews about that new product. You want to know more about the founder of violet? Go to the Armeniapedia to get a short overview about Rafi Haladjian, his personal background and his company. After entering the telecommunications industry in 1983, he pioneered the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in France in 1994, FranceNet, and sold it in 2003 to British Telecom. For more information you can also follow Rafi Haladjian's french blog. picnic conference amsterdam From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. For nice fotos, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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