Gnomedex (conference)
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Gnomedex is a single-track technology conference hosted by Chris Pirillo
, the owner of Lockergnome, LLC and is produced by Chris Pirillo and his staff at Lockergnome. Pirillo was the co-host of the show Call For Help
on the former cable television channel TechTV
. Gnomedex started as an outgrowth of Pirillo's technology newsletters, IRC channel and web site. The conference name is a satirical portmanteau of Pirillo's Lockergnome and the now-defunct Comdex
technology trade show, which was a massive and influential annual event at the time of the first Gnomedex conference.
Gnomedex has grown into a conference exploring new and emerging technologies
with influencers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts as the primary audience. It bills itself as the crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers. The conference format is meant to serve the needs of the attendees, many of whom are prolific blog
gers and podcasters.
The first Gnomedex took place in October 2001 in Des Moines, Iowa
, while the tenth Gnomedex took place in August, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. Gnomedex organizer Chris Pirillo announced that due to the difficulites in operating such events, that the tenth was likely to be the last Gnomedex unless additional backing and resources were brought forward to help spread the administrative and organizational overhead. A Gnomedex stage was included in the first Seattle Interactive Conference in November 2011 after Jake Ludington
reportedly convinced Chris Pirillo to continue the event.
. Originally scheduled for the weekend of 9/11, it was postponed for a month to allow people to adjust their travel plans. Despite the uncertainty, nearly 200 people attended from all over the United States, Canada and Europe. The keynote was delivered by Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corp. Presentations included:
David Lawrence also made a live broadcast of his radio show Online Tonight from Gnomedex.
Sponsorship was by several companies, including SnapStream and Microsoft
.
, formerly with TechTV
. The speaker list included:
Microsoft
was the banner sponsor.
Jennifer Staack was crowned Ms. Gnomedex 2003.
Beth Goza and Kevin Unangst from Microsoft presented on Digital Media in Microsoft Windows.
Speakers included:
Microsoft
and Google
were the banner sponsors.
and have an open bar. The theme (and sponsor) changed several times after it was announced. The keynote was by Steve Wozniak
. Notable speakers and events included Nick Bradbury, Henry Copeland, Dan Gillmor, Ross Rader, Robert Scoble, Jason Shellem, Wil Wheaton
and a live broadcast of the Gillmor Gang
syndicated technology radio show. Sponsors included Microsoft
, PayPal
, Google
, AMD, Yahoo!
Search, DecisionCast, and ZDNet
.
IT Conversations
produced podcasts of the sessions, which are still available online. The podcast of Steve Wozniak's keynote address is one of the all-time most popular audio programs in IT Conversations history.
The published schedule was as follows:
Scheduled speakers and panels were:
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
The published roster of discussion leaders was:
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
Roster of speakers:
Also, a selection of Ignite Seattle! http://igniteseattle.com/ participants gave a series of 5-minute Pecha Kucha
-style presentations.
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
The main hall was filled to capacity with almost 350 attendees.
Interesting or notable events included: Dancing with Matt Harding.
Sponsors included Blue Sky Factor, Chevrolet, CNN.com, Design Reactor, General Motors, HP, Mighty Leaf Tea, Pathable, Solarwinds, SnapStream, Sony, TechSmith, Ustream, Viewzi, WeatherBug, and Wetpaint.
Pirillo also announced he was interested in doing three to four smaller one day events across the United States in 2009, but did not give further details.
, BlogWorld, C-K Graphics, Comcast
, CNN.COM
, Digital River
, ESET, Griffin, Hawaiian Airlines, Hewlett-Packard
, ICanHasCheezBurger, Ipswitch Software, Jinx, Leatherback Printing, Mashable
, Microsoft
, nPost, PC Pitstop, PCC Natural Markets, PhotoJoJo, Picnik, Ping.fm
, ReadWriteWeb
, Real Networks, Seesmic
, Shozu, Starbucks
, ThrowBoy, Ustream.TV and WeatherBug. Organizational sponsors included BBJ, BrighterPlanet, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Heifer International, Puget Sound Blood Center and Social Media Club Seattle.
Speakers:
Commercial sponsors included American Public Media
, Atlas Networks, Banyan Branch, the Bellevue Business Journal, BlogWorld, Deploy Day, EventBrite, GirlsInTech, GoDaddy, Griffin Technologies, Hotel Max, Hover
, IAmEastSide, the Issaquah Press, Jones Soda Company, Mashable
, Microsoft
, the Modern Media Man Summit, Parallels Holdings, PCC Natural Markets
, Pipeline Deals, Pooper Trooper, PopChips, Privacy Identity Innovation, the Public Insight Network, RaceVision, Real Networks, ReveNews
, Seagate
, Seattle Net Tuesday, SeattleWineGal, SmartCup, Social Media Club Seattle, SuperAntiSpyware
, Swedish Medical Center
, UStream.TV, Washington Technology Industry Association, WeatherBug
, Yelp and Zing Bars.
The tenth Gnomedex conference had a similar schedule to previous Gnomedexes held at the Bell Harbor Conference Center, starting with registration and then a social mixer for attendees to meet.
Speakers:
Organizers indicate that the 2010 Gnomedex will likely be the last.
Speakers:
Christopher Pirillo said he was thinking about holding another Gnomedex in 2012 as a standalone event.
Chris Pirillo
Christopher Joseph Pirillo is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, which is a network of blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help, where he also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon...
, the owner of Lockergnome, LLC and is produced by Chris Pirillo and his staff at Lockergnome. Pirillo was the co-host of the show Call For Help
Call for Help
Call for Help, also known as CFH, was a computer-themed television program that first aired exclusively on TechTV , a cable and satellite television network focused on technology, and then aired on G4techTV Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia...
on the former cable television channel TechTV
TechTV
TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming...
. Gnomedex started as an outgrowth of Pirillo's technology newsletters, IRC channel and web site. The conference name is a satirical portmanteau of Pirillo's Lockergnome and the now-defunct Comdex
COMDEX
COMDEX was a computer expo held in Las Vegas, Nevada, each November from 1979 to 2003. It was one of the largest computer trade shows in the world, usually second only to the German CeBIT, and by many accounts one of the largest trade shows in any industry sector...
technology trade show, which was a massive and influential annual event at the time of the first Gnomedex conference.
Gnomedex has grown into a conference exploring new and emerging technologies
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
with influencers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts as the primary audience. It bills itself as the crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers. The conference format is meant to serve the needs of the attendees, many of whom are prolific blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
gers and podcasters.
The first Gnomedex took place in October 2001 in Des Moines, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
, while the tenth Gnomedex took place in August, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. Gnomedex organizer Chris Pirillo announced that due to the difficulites in operating such events, that the tenth was likely to be the last Gnomedex unless additional backing and resources were brought forward to help spread the administrative and organizational overhead. A Gnomedex stage was included in the first Seattle Interactive Conference in November 2011 after Jake Ludington
Jake Ludington
Jacob "Jake" Byron Ludington is the American author of Easy Digital Home Movies and founder of tech help site MediaBlab.- Biography :Ludington was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He majored in Marketing at the Iowa State University. He married Robin Amrine on June 6, 2004...
reportedly convinced Chris Pirillo to continue the event.
2001
The first Gnomedex was held Friday, October 12, 2001 through Sunday October 14, 2001 in Des Moines, IowaIowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Originally scheduled for the weekend of 9/11, it was postponed for a month to allow people to adjust their travel plans. Despite the uncertainty, nearly 200 people attended from all over the United States, Canada and Europe. The keynote was delivered by Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corp. Presentations included:
- David LawrenceDavid Lawrence (radio host)David Harvard Lawrence XVII is an American television and film actor, voice talent, network radio host, Internet entrepreneur, podcaster, demo producer, teacher and author, best known for his role as The Puppetmaster on NBC's sci-fi series Heroes...
on the future of the music industry - Userland Software employee Robert ScobleRobert ScobleRobert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has three children; one from a previous...
discussing OPMLOPMLOPML is an XML format for outlines...
and RSSRSS-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
technologies. - Derek Brown from Microsoft's Mobility Team demonstrating a Pocket PC-powered phone (technology which had just launched).
- Mark Thompson, freewareFreewareFreeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
developer for AnalogX - Mike Elgan, technology writer and editorial consultant
- Steve Kiene of eSellerate
David Lawrence also made a live broadcast of his radio show Online Tonight from Gnomedex.
Sponsorship was by several companies, including SnapStream and Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
.
2002
Gnomedex 2.0 occurred on August 23 through August 24, 2002 in Des Moines, Iowa at the Downtown Marriott. The keynote was delivered by Leo LaporteLeo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
, formerly with TechTV
TechTV
TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming...
. The speaker list included:
- Evan Willams from Blogger.com
- Phil "Pud" KaplanPhilip J. KaplanPhilip J. "Pud" Kaplan is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer who has founded several Internet companies.He created the Fucked Company website in May 2000 and wrote the corresponding book F'd Companies in 2002....
, creator of FuckedCompany.comFucked CompanyFucked Company was a website created by Philip J. "Pud" Kaplan as a "dot-com dead pool" which chronicled failing and troubled companies in its unique and abrasive style after the dot com bust in 2000... - Ed Ross, founder of PC Talent
- Doc Searls
- Beth Goza
- Steve Gibson
- Mark Thompson of Analog X
- David Lawrence
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
was the banner sponsor.
2003
Gnomedex 3.0 was held in Des Moines, Iowa on July 25 and 26 2003.Jennifer Staack was crowned Ms. Gnomedex 2003.
Beth Goza and Kevin Unangst from Microsoft presented on Digital Media in Microsoft Windows.
Speakers included:
- John C. DvorakJohn C. DvorakJohn C. Dvorak is an American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is also the Vice-President of Mevio and well known for his work for Tech TV...
, columnist with PC MagazinePC MagazinePC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009... - Dan GillmorDan GillmorDan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and columnist. He is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard...
, then with the San Jose Mercury NewsSan Jose Mercury NewsThe San Jose Mercury News is a daily newspaper in San Jose, California. On its web site, however, it calls itself Silicon Valley Mercury News. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group... - Rob MaldaRob MaldaRob Malda , also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School....
, operator of the SlashdotSlashdotSlashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section...
technology news web site - Nelson Minar from GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
- Jim Louderback of Ziff-Davis Media
- Amir Majidimehr of Microsoft Digital Media
- Tim O'ReillyTim O'ReillyTim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...
, founder of O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics... - Eric SinkEric SinkEric Sink is a software developer and writer. He is the author of Eric Sink on the Business of Software , a collection of essays from his blog and the "Business of Software" column for the Microsoft Developer Network. He founded SourceGear, which sells source control software for Microsoft...
from SourceGear - Kevin Unangst of Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
and Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
were the banner sponsors.
2004
Gnomedex 4.0 (aka "Geeks Gone Wild") was held from September 30 to October 4, 2004 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Originally, Gnomedex 4.0 was going to be sponsored by Comedy CentralComedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
and have an open bar. The theme (and sponsor) changed several times after it was announced. The keynote was by Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...
. Notable speakers and events included Nick Bradbury, Henry Copeland, Dan Gillmor, Ross Rader, Robert Scoble, Jason Shellem, Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me and Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers...
and a live broadcast of the Gillmor Gang
Gillmor Gang
The Gillmor Gang is a podcast about information technology run by Steve Gillmor, a former contributing editor at ZDNet.-History:It was originally hosted on ITConversations.com. From May 2005 until November 2006, it was hosted by Podshow. The show then ended until being resurrected in November 2007...
syndicated technology radio show. Sponsors included Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, PayPal
PayPal
PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, AMD, Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
Search, DecisionCast, and ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1, 1991 as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication owned by CNET...
.
IT Conversations
Conversations Network
The Conversations Network is a California non-profit corporation founded by Doug Kaye with the intent of coordinating a global team of volunteer podcasters to capture and publish lectures, seminars, and other significant events that would otherwise go unrecorded. They are modeled after Kaye's...
produced podcasts of the sessions, which are still available online. The podcast of Steve Wozniak's keynote address is one of the all-time most popular audio programs in IT Conversations history.
The published schedule was as follows:
- The Future of Security (panel): Chris DiBona (moderator), Neil Wyler, Fred Felman, CJ Holthaus, Nico Sell, Dan Appleman
- Maximizing Your Blogging Strategies: Adam Kalsey (moderator), Robert Scoble, Nick Bradbury, Ross Rader, Jason Shellen, Dave Taylor
- Keynote Speaker: Steve Wozniak
- Maximizing Your Digital Lifestyle: Eric Rice (moderator), Jim Louderback, Patrick Norton, Ken Layne, Anil Dash, Paul Kent, Tim Handley
- The Future of Online Content: Scott Johnson, Greg Reinacker, Steve Gillmor, Dan Gillmor, Peter Kaminski, Jason Calacanis
- Wil Wheaton
- The Future of Online Advertising: Dave McClure (moderator), Jeff Barr, Henry Copeland, Bill Flitter, Gokul Rajaram
2005
Gnomedex 5.0 was the first of the series to be held in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Convention Center. The conference took place from June 23–25, 2005. Notable presentations and activities included:- MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
announced that RSS feeds would be supported in the next version of Microsoft Windows. They also gave the first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 7, focusing on its RSS features. Attendees received a track jacket from Microsoft with "Browse, Search, Subscribe" and "(Longhorn icon) (heart icon) RSS" patches. - Adam CurryAdam CurryAdam Clark Curry is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site...
delivered the closing keynote, while simultaneously recording an episode of his podcast, Daily Source Code. - Kathy Gill from University of Washington presented on blogging in the classroom
- Julie Leung gave a presentation on personal and public media
- Phillip Torrone of Make Magazine presented on the craft of making
- David Winer sang The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.
- An episode of the Gillmor GangGillmor GangThe Gillmor Gang is a podcast about information technology run by Steve Gillmor, a former contributing editor at ZDNet.-History:It was originally hosted on ITConversations.com. From May 2005 until November 2006, it was hosted by Podshow. The show then ended until being resurrected in November 2007...
podcast was recorded live.
Scheduled speakers and panels were:
- Dave Winer
- Dean HachamovitchDean HachamovitchDean J. Hachamovitch is the corporate vice president in charge of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.- Early life and education :Hachamovitch was born to Shoshana and Dr Moshe Hachamovitch in New York...
of Microsoft - Steve Gillmor, Dave Sifry, Scott Gatz on Tomorrow's Syndication
- Kathy Gill, Paul Vogelzang on the Tomorrow's Education
- David Geller, John Battelle, Dan Gillmor on Today's Citizen Media
- Matt Westervelt, Asa Dotzler, Scott Collins, Matt Mullenweg on Tomorrow's Open Source
- Hobie Swan on MindManager
- Julie Leung on Blogging as Social Tool
- Mark Fletcher, Scott Rafer, Bob Wyman on Tomorrow's RSS
- JD Lasica, Terry Heaton, Cory Bergman on Tomorrow's Media
- Steve Rubel, Chris Sloop on Tomorrow's Public Relations
- Denise Howell, Buzz Bruggeman, Jason Calacanis on Today's Digital Legalities
- Adam Curry
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
2006
Gnomedex 6.0 was held in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Convention Center from June 29 - July 1, 2006. Notable presentations were:- keynote by Senator John Edwards
- a discussion and demonstration of Pixsy by Chase Norlin
- a demonstration of Melodeo by Bill Valenti and Rob Greenlee
The published roster of discussion leaders was:
- Michael Arrington
- Om Malik
- Dave Dederer
- John Edwards
- Werner Vogels
- Steve Rubel
- Marc Canter
- Susan Mernit
- Jim Lanzone
- Steve Gilmor
- Dave Winer
- Philip "Pud" Kaplan
- Chris Messina
- Ethan Kaplan
- Kaliya Hamlin (audience pick for Gnomedex MVP)
- Halley Suitt
- Blake Ross
- Jeremy Zawondny
- Phil Torrone
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
2007
Gnomedex 7.0 was held in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Convention Center on August 9–11, 2007.Roster of speakers:
- Robert Steele
- Darren Barefoot
- Guy Kawasaki
- Bad Sinatra Live
- Justin Kan
- Ronni Bennett
- Vanessa Fox
- Jason Calacanis
- Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell
- Michael Linton
- Gregg Spiridellis
- Derek K. Miller (via video link - archived video stream)
- Kathy Gill
- Sterling Allan
Also, a selection of Ignite Seattle! http://igniteseattle.com/ participants gave a series of 5-minute Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each, usually seen in a multiple-speaker event called a Pecha Kucha Night ....
-style presentations.
A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.
2008
Gnomedex 8.0 was held in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Convention Center on August 21–23, 2008. The theme for this year's Gnomedex was "Human Circuitry." Listed below are the speakers, along with videos of their presentation (hosted on YouTube):- Alex Steffen
- Amanda Koster of SalaamGarage
- Dr. Arvind Krishnamurthy from the University of Washington
- Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger?I Can Has Cheezburger?I Can Has Cheezburger? is the name of a weblog featuring lolcats, which are pictures of cats or other animals with captions, paired for humor value. It was created in 2007 by Eric Nakagawa , a blogger from Hawaii and his girlfriend, Kari Unebasami...
- Beth Kanter from Summit Collaborative
- Brady Forrest from O'Reilly Radar
- Danny Sullivan
- Dave Mathews from boxeeBOXEEBoxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV...
- Eric Lin
- Ethan Katz-Basset
- Eve Maler, from Sun Microsystems, discussing managing online relationships
- Francine Hardaway
- Gabriel Maganis
- Jeremy Toeman
- John Malkin
- Josh Bancroft
- Kevin Fox
- Kris Krug on photography (higher quality version of video here )
- Larry Halff from Magnolia
- Mark Bao
- Matt HardingMatt HardingMatthew "Matt" Harding , is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations...
- Monica Guzman
- Nathan Wade from the University of Washington
- Sara Davies
- Sarah Lacey
- Scott Maxwell from NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
- Tadayoshi Kohno
- Tara Hunt (presented with Larry Halff from Magnolia)
The main hall was filled to capacity with almost 350 attendees.
Interesting or notable events included: Dancing with Matt Harding.
Sponsors included Blue Sky Factor, Chevrolet, CNN.com, Design Reactor, General Motors, HP, Mighty Leaf Tea, Pathable, Solarwinds, SnapStream, Sony, TechSmith, Ustream, Viewzi, WeatherBug, and Wetpaint.
Pirillo also announced he was interested in doing three to four smaller one day events across the United States in 2009, but did not give further details.
2009
Gnomedex 9.0 was held from Friday, August 21, 2009 to Saturday, August 22, 2009. Commercial sponsors included Amazon.ComAmazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
, BlogWorld, C-K Graphics, Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
, CNN.COM
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, Digital River
Digital River
Digital River is a U.S. e-commerce outsourcing company. The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, reporting and strategic marketing services...
, ESET, Griffin, Hawaiian Airlines, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
, ICanHasCheezBurger, Ipswitch Software, Jinx, Leatherback Printing, Mashable
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, nPost, PC Pitstop, PCC Natural Markets, PhotoJoJo, Picnik, Ping.fm
Ping.fm
Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once...
, ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb is a Web technology blog launched in 2003. RWW covers Web 2.0 and Web technology in general, and provides industry news, reviews, and analysis. Founded by Richard MacManus, Technorati ranked ReadWriteWeb at number 12 in its list of top 100 blogs worldwide, as of October 9, 2010. RWW...
, Real Networks, Seesmic
Seesmic
Seesmic is a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allow users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter....
, Shozu, Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
, ThrowBoy, Ustream.TV and WeatherBug. Organizational sponsors included BBJ, BrighterPlanet, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Heifer International, Puget Sound Blood Center and Social Media Club Seattle.
Speakers:
- Warren EtheredgeWarren EtheredgeWarren Etheredge is a cultural conversationalist, interviewer, film analyst, writer, and mentor to screenwriters. He lives in Seattle, Washington and is nicknamed "The Film Guy" among some Seattle media and film enthusiasts...
on The Art of the Interview - Chris BroganChris BroganChris Brogan is an author, journalist, marketing consultant, and frequent speaker about social media marketing.Chris’s book, "Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust" , written with Julien Smith, became a New York Times bestseller, and hit the Wall Street...
and Julien Smith on the Rise of Trust Agents - Phil Plait on skepticismSkepticismSkepticism has many definitions, but generally refers to any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere...
- Christine Peterson from the Foresight InstituteForesight InstituteThe Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies. They sponsor conferences on molecular nanotechnology, publish reports, and produce a newsletter....
on Life Extension of Geeks - Bre PettisBre PettisBre Pettis is an entrepreneur, video blogger and multi-artist. He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE, and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel. He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor.Pettis is a co-founder and the CEO of MakerBot...
on Personal Manufacturing: Robots Sharing Built - Firas Khatib from the University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
on FolditFolditFoldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry... - Todd Friesen on Confessions of a Retired Spammer
- Brady Forrest
- Drew Olanoff
- Frank Eliason on A Twitter Top-Ten List (with Humor!)
- Mark Glaser
- Jim Ray
- Beth Goza on Nerd Craft: A Field Guide
- Micah Baldwin on Building Influence Online
- Jay Grandin and Leah Nelson on 20,000,000 versus 20
- Angel Djambazov on Amazon, Affiliates & Taxing
- Mark Horvath
- Amber Case on Prosthetic Culture
- Kris Krüg, who closed the conference the Gnomedex 9 Photo Awards
2010
Gnomedex 10 was held August 19 through August 21, 2010, in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Conference Center and shared registration with pii2010 as a part of the larger Seattle Geek Week event.Commercial sponsors included American Public Media
American Public Media
American Public Media is the second largest producer of public radio programs in the United States of America after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota, California, and Florida. Its station brands are Minnesota Public Radio,...
, Atlas Networks, Banyan Branch, the Bellevue Business Journal, BlogWorld, Deploy Day, EventBrite, GirlsInTech, GoDaddy, Griffin Technologies, Hotel Max, Hover
Hover
Hover may refer to:*Hovering , the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contactIn transport* Hover , nearly stationary flight in a helicopter...
, IAmEastSide, the Issaquah Press, Jones Soda Company, Mashable
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, the Modern Media Man Summit, Parallels Holdings, PCC Natural Markets
PCC Natural Markets
PCC Natural Markets is a food cooperative based in Seattle, Washington. With over 45,000 members, it is the largest consumer-owned food cooperative in the United States.. Both members and non-members may shop at the retail locations, but members receive certain discounts. The organization...
, Pipeline Deals, Pooper Trooper, PopChips, Privacy Identity Innovation, the Public Insight Network, RaceVision, Real Networks, ReveNews
ReveNews
ReveNews is an online publication founded in December 1998 by independent digital media firm GMD Studios and the original team of Brian Clark, J.D. Ashcraft and Wayne Porter...
, Seagate
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology, Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, United States.-1970s:On November 1, 1979...
, Seattle Net Tuesday, SeattleWineGal, SmartCup, Social Media Club Seattle, SuperAntiSpyware
Superantispyware
SUPERAntiSpyware is a software application distributed as shareware which can detect and remove spyware, adware, trojan horses, rogue security software, computer worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications...
, Swedish Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center is a large nonprofit health care provider located in Seattle, Washington. It has three main hospital locations in Seattle and is also affiliated with many other suburban hospitals and clinics. As of 2009 it has 7000 employees and 2,300 credentialed physicians.-History:Swedish...
, UStream.TV, Washington Technology Industry Association, WeatherBug
WeatherBug
WeatherBug is a brand owned by Earth Networks, Ask.com and IAC/InterActiveCorp based in Germantown, Maryland, that provides live weather data and maintains continuously monitored weather stations throughout the United States, mainly located at public and private schools, educational institutions...
, Yelp and Zing Bars.
The tenth Gnomedex conference had a similar schedule to previous Gnomedexes held at the Bell Harbor Conference Center, starting with registration and then a social mixer for attendees to meet.
Speakers:
- Brian SolisBrian SolisBrian Solis is an American marketing executive, currently principal at Altimeter, author, entrepreneur, speaker, and host of Revolution, a webshow. He is known for his research, writings, and speaking engagements about the convergence between traditional media and social media on business,...
presenting the opening keynote on community - Trish Millines Dziko from the Technology Access Foundation on providing computer literacy skills to minorities
- Charles Brennick of InterConnectionInterConnection.orgInterConnection.org is an American 501, non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington. InterConnection was established in 1999 by Charles Brennick. The organization's original focus was on developing and donating websites to non-profits in developing countries. The program soon...
on reusing and recycling computers - Austin Heap, creator of the HaystackHaystack (software)Haystack was a never-completed program intended for network traffic obfuscation and encryption. It was promoted as a tool to circumvent internet censorship in Iran...
software - Tom Nugent
- Todd Welch
- Willow Brugh
- Johnny Diggz
- Rob Knop
- Bill Schrier
- Amy Karlson
- Shauna Causey and Melody Biringer
- Larry Wu
- Scott "Spot" DravesScott DravesScott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep. He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms...
of Digital Sheep - Scott and Alex Mueller of Moosicorn Ranch
- Melissa Pierce
- Violet Blue on sexuality
- Jason Barger
- Steven Fisher and Michael Dougherty
- Tim Hwang
- Matt Inman of The Oatmeal
- Seattle Wine Gal on Wine Tasting How-To's
- OmniTechNews
- Joe Pirillo and Judy Pirillo on 10 Years of Gnomedex
Organizers indicate that the 2010 Gnomedex will likely be the last.
2011
Gnomedex 2011 was held on November 2, 2011 in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center and held in conjunction with Seattle Interactive Conference 2011.Speakers:
- Marcus Barnes-Cannon from the University of Washington discussed the Protect IP ActProtect IP ActThe PROTECT IP Act is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the...
. - Libby Tucker discussed how technology could be used to reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage PatchGreat Pacific Garbage PatchThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N...
(a/k/a "Plastic Island") - Shawn Ahmed of the Uncultured Project discussed global poverty and shared his own experiences providing aid in BangladeshBangladeshBangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
in the aftermath of Hurricane Sidr. - Michael Haley, Ph.D spoke on designing systems to function as desired.
- Chris Burgess of Atigeo discussed cyberbullying in a talk title Unintended Consequences
- Pascal Schuback of CrisisCommons discussed how technology and open data could be used in crisis management and humanitarian aid to provide realtime data.
- Kent Nichols of AskANinja explained how to find an audience for online video series
- Microsoft's Robotics division gave a demo of Roborazzi, a camera-toting robot for taking pictures at social events.
Christopher Pirillo said he was thinking about holding another Gnomedex in 2012 as a standalone event.