Stream unconference
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What is Stream
Stream is a series of digital unconferences hosted by WPP and run by volunteers. The global event takes place early autumn each year and brings together over three hundred of the brightest and most innovative people in the creative, media and technology industries. Attendees discuss, debate, and shape ideas and opportunities in the areas of culture, innovation and the internet. The event is free-form, super-democratised and all attendees are required to participate in some way. There is no formal agenda.Stream 07 , 08, 09 and '10 have all been hosted by Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP
WPP Group
WPP plc is a global media communications services company with its main management office in London, United Kingdom and its executive office in Dublin, Ireland. It is the world's largest advertising group by revenues, and employs over 150,000 people in 2,400 offices in 107 countries...
, and Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi
Joseph Vardi , is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 40 years he has founded and helped to build over 60 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.-Biography:Joseph Vardi was born in Tel...
, internet investor, and founder of Kinnernet
Kinnernet
Kinnernet is an annual networking event for Internet professionals, held at the Ohalo Resort in Israel every Spring since 2003. Organised by Yossi Vardi, founding investor of ICQ, Kinnernet serves as a think tank for everything Internet, with some 250 attendees...
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Stream Asia launched in 2011, and Stream Local events now take place in cities around the world (including London, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Paris and Berlin) where digital leaders can get together to discuss and debate the future.
Who Goes
Participants at Stream events are some of the most creative and future thinking leaders and digital evangelists in the creative, media and technology industries.Press
Stream is a private event, and is designed for the attendees on-site. However, many prominent bloggers and writers have attended the event over the past few years, generating coverage from attendees such as Tim O'ReillyTim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...
, Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver
Jeffrey L. Pulver is an American Internet entrepreneur known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com. He has written extensively on the need to develop an alternative to government regulation of the applications layer of Voice over Internet Protocol telephony.-Biography:Jeff...
, Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others...
and David Rowan, Editor of Wired UK
Wired UK
Wired UK is a full-colour monthly magazine that reports primarily on the effects of science and technology. It covers a broad range of topics including design, architecture, culture, the economy, politics and philosophy...
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Some traditional news media such as Business Week and the Daily Telegraph have covered the event.
Wired UK
Wired UK
Wired UK is a full-colour monthly magazine that reports primarily on the effects of science and technology. It covers a broad range of topics including design, architecture, culture, the economy, politics and philosophy...
called it one of the most important tech conferences in the world .
Stream won "Best Conference" at the 2009 Event Awards.
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