introducing the mesh class of 2006
It’s finally done. The mesh schedule is finished. We are more than a little pleased with how it’s shaped up. In fact, looking at it, we’d be surprised if there’s a more impressive array of people to be assembled on this topic anywhere in North America this year.
We have pided the days into two streams per day, with Journalism and Politics & Society on May 15th, and then Business Start-up & Financing, and Marketing & PR on May 16th. We have everybody-attends conversations and seminars to kick off each day and stream, and then we break into concurrent smaller group sessions and workshops. We’ve also tried to give time for meeting each other, getting online etc. And there will be a social on Monday, and we are working on an after-party, too.
But back to the schedule. There’s a lot of content here, folks. Some highlights (and there are many) include:
- A political blogging session featuring Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Ed Morrisey and Paul Wells.
- A start-up vs. VC throw-down featuring Jason “I don’t need your stinkin’ cash” Fried and Rick “how do we re-invent the VC business?” Segal.
- A discussion around Corporate blogging featuring Jen Evans, Tara Hunt, Debbie Weil and Jeremy Wright. Debbie and Jeremy wrote the books on this stuff. Literally.
- A discussion on the future of the newspaper business, featuring Tomer Strolight, Angus Frame and Jordan Banks.
- A conversation about next-generation brand building with Yours Truly, Jonathan Erlich, Jim Coudal and Bruce Philp.
- A session on creating viable next-generation web businesses, with Leila Boujnane, Albert Lai, Mike McDerment and Malgosia Green.
And the list goes on. Future thinking about PR, How-to’s about Podcasting, What’s it mean for not-for-profit and online activism, Help for Marketing in a Post-Mass Market world…
It’s dense, deep and broad all at the same time. So check it out, and come.
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What are the actual times of things on the schedule?
Now let's just get some events happening and I'll be oh so a happy camper 
/pd: The Keynote Conversations are for everybody. Then, the later sessions - shown on the schedule side-by-side, are concurrent. You do not need to pre-register for one vs. another. Just decide on the day.
Boris: We have to spend some more Quality Time on-site at MaRS doing an actual walk through of how long we will need to take for people to move around, and do things like move walls, re-arrange chairs etc. so, in the spirit of "just ship the d*** thing" we have just broken it into day-parts for now. More detail will come, including little cards for you to carry while at mesh. It is a bit of letting you all see us making the sausages, as the saying goes, but we thought you'd want to see what we had, as soon as we had it.
In fact, you might still see some more tweaks as we try to add more great content, or move some things around. Let's say we are out of Alpha and into (perpetual) Beta…like any good Web 2 outfit 
Fair enough. Just keep the darn thing in beta mode- the particpants can always figure out stuff for themselves.
Can't wait! Flights booked. Hotel reserved.
Bags packed … oh wait, little early for that.
This is really shaping up into something exciting… kudos to the organisers for pulling this together. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone! See you soon…
Thanks for including nonprofits and ngos in your thinking! It's quite amazing what a couple of trailblazers in the sector have managed to do with Web2.0 tools. Check it out at TechSoup NetSquared, the initiative focusing on helping npos and ngos discover the potential of Web2.0 tools. http://www.netsquared.org/catlist/list/1
Tris and Sarah: Thanks for being a part of mesh.
Franziska: We are really pleased to be including not-for-profits and ngos in the mix. The social web ans collaborative tools are creating many new opportunities for them, too.
just a question here….are the panel session concurrent ??
do we need to registar if so –or is it open walk in sessions ??
Solly- but I am consfused.. just asking