140 Conference Coming to Boston

Diane Vautier
June 23, 2010

If you’re familiar with VoIP, you may have heard of Jeff Pulver, Internet entrepreneur and VoIP technology pioneer. If not maybe you’ve heard of some of his work: co-founder Vonage and founder of FWD, the VON Coalition, PrimeTimeRewind.TV and Vivox. He’s definitely someone to watch on the technology scene.

One of his latest endeavors is the 140 Character Conference, Exploring the State of Now. It’s a high level look at emerging technologies and real-time internet. Started a little over a year ago in Washington DC, the conference has expanded to include international participation and growing notoriety among interactive thought leaders. Jeff is bringing his conference to Boston this fall, on September 17^th.

In keeping with the conference theme, the event format is most decidedly, brief. In fact, it’s almost twitter-like in its ability to expose attendees to new ways of thinking, doing and being. All in laser like sharpness. Presenters bring their viewpoint to light in amazingly short, 10 minute time segments. Key note speakers get a few more minutes – they get 15. It’s enough to bring out the ADHD in all of us.

In preparation for the event coming to Boston for the first time, the social media community hosted a TweetUp to bring Boston’s talented interactive players together and get the creative juices flowing. Ellen Rosano (@EllenRossano on Twitter) coordinated the event along with the gracious hosting of the Seaport Boston Hotel (@SeaportBoston).

Jeff addressed attendees (with help from Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com) to let them know just what he was looking for in speakers, and why understanding and sharing how we relate to technology now is so important, especially to businesses.

So, save the date for 9/17/10, when 140 Character Conference, Exploring the State of Now comes to Boston. It’s sure to be a day filled with groundbreaking topics, ideas and ways of communicating. We’ll see you there.

Marketing, Technology, social media | Diane Vautier | 1:50 pm

2 Comments

By Steve Garfield, June 23, 2010 @ 2:34 pm

Great highlight clip.
By Diane Vautier, June 24, 2010 @ 9:19 am

Hey thanks Steve. I got some great video tips from a book I just read, “Get Seen” http://amzn.to/buLwbA. Maybe you’ve heard about it. Great bumping into you at the event.