Hey folks! We are happy to announce that Waggle Labs and O’Reily Radar/Ignite (Brady Forrest) are collaborating to organize Thingamajiggr II for Friday, June13: A party to celebrate the tech community in Seattle in all its most innovative forms (startups, geek art, hackery, games).
Mark your calendars! Thingamajiggr IIFriday June 13, 8pm - 1am911 Media Arts Center Learn more and buy tickets at: http://www.thingamajiggr.com/ At this point we are organizing a few presenters, fun workshop, art projects, games, cool tech demos, and whatever else may delight the hearts of innovative technologists like you.
If you are interested in participating in any way please email us at party@thingamajiggr.com and tell us about what interesting/genius/fun tech project you want to share. We are also looking for volunteers for set up/take down/door.
Proceeds for this event to benefit 911 Media Arts Center, a local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting independent digital media artists.
All our online tickets are spoken for!
But don’t fret we have a limited number remaining to be sold first come, first serve at the door.
The fun starts at 8:00PM
See you there!
We have been twittered: text ‘follow thingamajiggr’ to 40404
Our good friend Tony Stubblebine has been kind enough to let us use his fantastic social networking tool crowdvine for the party. You can see who’s attending and interact with folks before, during, and after the party.
Check it out: thingamajiggr.crowdvine.com
Sweet, John Kao will be speaking at Thingamajiggr. He wrote the book Innovation Nation which is getting a lot of press lately. His bio is as follows:
John Kao is a leading expert on innovation. He taught a popular course on the subject at the Harvard Business School for fourteen years, has also served as a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab, and as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In addition, he is the founder of Kao & Company, which advises top-tier Fortune 500 business leaders as well as government leaders around the world. He has specialized in instructing organizations in the methods for making innovation happen. Dubbed “Mr. Creativity” by The Economist, he has started several companies, in areas as diverse as biotech and innovation management, and he is also a Tony-nominated executive producer of theater and film, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape. He is also an accomplished jazz musician and lives in San Francisco, California.
We’ll have a giant tesla coil at the party. Freaky!
The always entertaining Pablos will be doing some nifty hacker tricks live on stage!
We, the organizers, will post updates here!
