WThe African Summit on Women and Girls in Technology is an international summit organized by the World Wide Web Foundation and the Alliance for Affordable Internet in collaboration with other international organizations and ministries. It is a gathering of digital equality advocates who are mostly women and the main focus of discussion is bridging the digital gender gap.
WThis National Conference is the biennial conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). The conference opens to anyone who in interested in sharing their digital teaching experiences. The first conference took place in Melbourne, 1983. Between 1983-1996, the conference was held annually across Australia. After 1996, the conference became biennial. From 1994, a series of frameworks were launched in Australia to integrate Information and Communication Technology(ICT) into education. Western Australia's 2001 Competency framework for Teachers identified teachers as an important component in developing computer education. In 2010, Education Minister Julia Gillard, proposed an education agenda to provide Australia a better education system. Besides ACCE, there are many organizations and conferences supporting the development of computer education in Australia. Technology in education consists of two major approaches: Learning with technology and learning from technology. Technology in education learning and traditional classroom learning have different focuses and defining features. There are also four types of computer education:Bring your own device(BYOD), blended learning, online learning, and flipped learning.
WBrain Bar is an annual event held in Budapest, Hungary. It has been referred to as "a sort of South By Southwest on the Danube" as it is both a tech conference and a music festival. The event attracted more than 15,000 attendees in 2019 and a livestream audience of more than 50,000.
WCampus Party (CP) is a conference and hackathon.
WThe Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC) is a Canadian student-organized conference. It concerns itself with all sorts of technology-related fields, such as: engineering, programming, interactive design, electronics, biology, and chemistry. It aims to introduce undergraduate students to the future of technology.
WCHINICT is a conference including a Hackathon focused on the China tech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. CHINICT takes place once a year at the end of May in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park.
WClick Asia Summit is India's first and largest Digital & Mobile Marketing conference, expo, and workshop. Click Asia Summit is designed to create a forum for the top marketing professionals to come together and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get ahead in the emerging economy.
WThe Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology is a biennial conference on the application of the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto in the science and technology community.
WCyberArts International was a series of conferences dealing with emerging technologies that took place during years 1990, 1991, and 1992 in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. The gatherings brought together artists and developers in all types of new media, including software engineers, electronic musicians, and graphic artists to explore what was a new field at the time, digital media collaborations.
WDent is an annual conference in Santa Fe, NM, founded by Jason Preston and Steve Broback. Participants gather in March to "explore the magic and science of visionary leadership and groundbreaking success." Dent VIII will be held in March 2021; 2020 saw the conference go on hiatus.
WDigitalk is an annual two-days technology conference, organized by the Bulgarian business newspaper Capital weekly. Digitalk provides a place for discussion between creative professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and marketing executives on the future of the web. Speakers cover topics such as mobile marketing, online advertising, commerce, brand storytelling, and entrepreneurship. The first conference was held at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 26, 2011. Its topics addressed the influence of mobile technologies on business and society. Past speakers include Matt Mullenweg, Horace Dediu, Felix Salmon, James McKelvey, Sasha Bezuhanova, and others. The 2011 conference drew more than 700 people from all over Southeastern Europe.
WDisrupt Asia is conference and festival in Sri Lanka dedicated to startups and innovation. It is organized by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka. The innovation festival features a startup showcase, a knowledge hub, partner offerings, and art installations.
WThe Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) is an international technology conference held in Dublin, Ireland. The first summit took place on 15 and 16 February 2017, at the Convention Centre Dublin in the city's Silicon Docks area.
WThe eyeo festival is a yearly conference bringing together artists who work with data and code. It takes place in Minneapolis. The conference began in 2011, and has taken place yearly since then, typically at the Walker Art Center. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both the 2020 and 2021 events were put on pause.
WGnomedex was a single-track technology conference hosted by Chris Pirillo, the owner of Lockergnome, LLC and was 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.
WThe Hackers Conference is an annual invitation-only gathering of designers, engineers and programmers to discuss the latest developments and innovations in the computer industry. On a daily basis, many hackers only interact virtually, and therefore rarely have face-to-face contact. The conference is a time for hackers to come together to share ideas.
WINPEX is America's largest invention trade show, held since 1985 and organized by the invention promotion firm InventHelp. The annual show is held each June in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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WThe International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS) is a major academic conference and exhibition in the field of group III nitride research. It has been held biennially since 1995. Since the second conference in 1997, hosting of the event has rotated between the Asian, European and North American continents. The ICNS and the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) are held in alternating years, both covering similar subject areas.
WThe International Workshop on OpenCL is an annual conference that brings together the community of OpenCL users, researchers, developers and suppliers to share OpenCL best practise and help advance the use of the Khronos OpenCL standard for the parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.
WNew Europe Market (NEM) is an annual marketing conference, market and screenings event held in Dubrovnik, and run by the Croatian company Mediavision Ltd. The focal idea behind the event is the creation of a platform where media, telecommunications and marketing professionals can share their knowledge and experience during the conference and networking events. The conference is addressed to FTAs, Pay-TV channels, cable operators, satellite operators, IPTV, production and distribution companies, media and marketing agencies and specialists. NEM focuses on the CEE region, but the event attendees come from all over the world.
WNotacon was an art and technology conference which took place annually in Cleveland, Ohio from 2003 to 2014. Notacon ceased operations in 2014. The name Notacon became a bacronym for Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference; however, use of this was mostly dropped after the first year. Notacon preceded the Ingenuity Festival by over a year in its vision for a cohesive blend of art and technology.
WOpen Data Science Conference, or ODSC, is an annual event held in Boston, San Francisco, Brazil, London, and India. The purpose of ODSC events is to discuss data science and machine learning topics, as well as provide training sessions.
WThe OMR Festival, known as the Online Marketing Rockstars Festival (OMR) through 2017, is one of the world’s largest events for digital marketing and technology. Since its founding in 2011, the annual OMR Festival has taken place in Hamburg, Germany. The organizer of the event is Ramp 106 GmbH; the team of founders includes Philipp Westermeyer, Tobias Schlottke, Christian Müller and Christian Byza.
WSingapore FinTech Festival (SFF) is the largest FinTech festival in the world and a knowledge platform for the global FinTech community.
WSlush is a startup and tech event. Slush facilitates meetings between the founders of startups and investors such as venture capitalists, accomplished with events such as matchmaking and pitching competitions. Slush aims to build a worldwide startup community. The event is held annually, in late fall, in Helsinki, Finland. In 2021, Slush will bring together 8,000 attendees, with over 3,200 startup founders or operators, and 1,500 investors coming in from around the world to participate together in this global networking festival.
WSXSW V2V is the newest South by Southwest conference; it features a startup competition, panel discussions, and mentoring workshops for entrepreneurs. Hosted in Las Vegas, it is the first SXSW event to take place outside of Austin, Texas. It began in 2013 as an evolution of the startup competition that is held as part of the SXSW Interactive festival each spring.
WThe Tech Plus Forum (tech+) is a government-affiliated, international, non-profit "knowledge concert" held each year in Seoul, South Korea. It was created to bring together recognized international and domestic innovation and inspiration leaders in the fields of technology, economy, culture and humanity. The name tech+ literally stands for these four contrasting but closely correlated fields. Since 2009, tech+ has been providing a public platform for the world’s intellectual community to promote and develop theories and solutions to tackle cutting edge issues related to industrial technology. The audience, consisting of university students, academics, government officials and professionals, attracted 8000 participants in 2010. Past speakers have included international and domestic policy makers, business leaders, innovators, artists and academics. Each fall, the tech+ Forum is jointly hosted by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy and JoongAng Ilbo, and is organized by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) At the conclusion of the forum, KIAT releases a series of publications aimed at making suggestions regarding specific government policies. These documents are public and are intended to help shape the direction government policy as well.
WTechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by partners of Archimedes Ventures, Michael Arrington and Keith Teare, and was acquired in 2010 by AOL for $25 million. TechCrunch is also best known for its Disrupt conferences; an annual technology event hosted in several cities across United States, Europe, and China.
WTechfestNW (TFNW) is an annual technology conference in Portland, Oregon that brings together innovators, startups, entrepreneurs, tech companies and investors from around the globe. The event features main stage speakers, workshops, a startup pitch competition, exhibitor booths, networking opportunities and parties. In 2012, Fortune magazine called it the next South by Southwest (SXSW).
WTED Conferences LLC is an American media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman, who co-founded it with Harry Marks in February 1984 as a conference; it has been held annually since 1990. TED's early emphasis was on technology and design, consistent with its Silicon Valley origins. It has since broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian and academic topics. It has been curated by Chris Anderson, a British-American businessman, through the non-profit TED Foundation since July 2019.
WVALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. (VALA) is an Australian not-for-profit professional organisation that promotes the use and understanding of information and communication technologies across the galleries, libraries, archives and museum sectors.
WStarted in 2015, as a Virtual Reality Meetup Group in Toronto, VRTO launched the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo in June 2016 - an international exhibition and professional conference exploring arts, culture and science through immersive technologies. Its inaugural year - held at the Mattamy Centre - featured keynotes from University of Toronto Professor Steve Mann, Hollywood film director Brett Leonard - director of The Lawnmower Man, Chief Digital Officer Ana Serrano of the Canadian Film Centre and Phil Lelyveld of USC.
WWeb Summit is an annual technology conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 2009 by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey, Web Summit was originally held in Dublin, Ireland until 2016, when it moved permanently to Lisbon. Web Summit has been described as the most important tech event in the world and has been noted for its aggressive marketing.
WThe Youth Congress on Information Technology is an annual information technology event in the Philippines organized by the UP System Information Technology Foundation. Established in 2003, Y4iT primarily targets college students, professionals, educators, IT experts and enthusiasts interested in discussions/networking opportunities, latest IT innovations, exploring how to be competitive in the digital market, and more. Y4iT has inspired thousands of students and educators alike from across the country, encouraging awareness and networking with like-minded IT professionals. Since its inception, Y4iT has gradually grown to become the leading IT congress in the Philippines.