It was a geek blogging heaven this past weekend in Vancouver when the annual Northern Voice blogging conference stormed the campus of the UBC. Highlighting its sixth year of existence Northern Voice came back bigger and better than ever. Two days with multiple tracks and over 500 attendees, this conference showcased some of the best and brightest in the blogosphere of Vancouver.
Normally the two conference is composed of two different styled. Historically the friday of the conference has always been an unconference style scheduling called MooseCamp and the saturday is the official track of selected speakers from submissions. This year MooseCamp took a year off and allowed for many more official presenters. The session topics ranged from alternate reality games, location based applications, visual note-taking, the interesting world of Chatroulette and even sex-blogging.
Both days featured a keynote speaker to open up the conference, which in the past have always been forward thinking heavy hitters in the Internet/Social Media arena. This year was no different when Bryan Alexander and Chris Messina took the stage. Alexander is the writer behind the Infocult blog which touches upon themes of Gothic presence in everyday life, fearsome media and all around thoughtful insights. Messina, on the other hand, has a different kind of involvement on the Internet, having his hands in establishing the idea of barcamps and co-working spaces. He currently works for Google as an Open Web Advocate.
With the refreshing mixture of keynote speakers, session leaders and attendees, the energy was fresh and forward thinking at Northern Voice this year. Static Photography was on site this year, not only documenting but presenting as well. Photographer Kris Krüg, when he wasn't photographing the conference, was moderating PhotoCamp and presenting/moderating the Olympic Experience panel. Studio manager Danielle Sipple had the chance to present during the sex-blogging panel on the saturday of the conference.
Here are some of the photographic highlights from Northern Voice 2010:
John Biehler, Andrew Lavigne and Robert Scales all presented at the Olympic Experience panel discussion.
Bloggers Arieanna and Ianiv Schweber with their newest addition Aiden were present for the entire Northern Voice conference. Aiden's 'Bloggable' shirt won cutest shirt!
Attendees at Northern Voice 2010: Roland Tanglao - a Northern Voice organizer, Fiona Garden - presenter at Photocamp and Philip Jeffrey - presenter at ARG panel.
Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo were busy on the days of the conference, helping facilitate the keynote presentations and the panel discussions.
Many attendees were photographing or video-recording the conference to share on the internet. Here Vancouver photographer Jason Sanders snaps a photo of the morning's keynote.
Northern Voice 2010 attendees: Static Photography studio manager Danielle Sipple - presented the sex blogging panel, a photographer shooting of the day's keynote speakers, and Leah Gregg - works with communications for UGM in the DTES.
Chris Messina gave the keynote address on the Saturday of Northern Voice 2010. Working as an Open Web Advocate for Google, Messina talked about the future of the internet.
Just outside the large auditorium rooms in UBC where the conference was held was a large area of grass in the sunshine. During breaks and lunch times this area was the place to be in the warm weather.
Northern Voice 2010 attendees: Alex Waterhouse Hayward - presented at Photocamp, Hans Peter Meyer - blogger/artist from the Sunshine Coast, and Karen Quinn Fung - an Urban Planning student.
It takes alot of food to feed 500 hungry geeks. :)
Northern Voice 2010 Attendee: Nick Molnar - web strategist at Thirdi.
This conference is where the geeks break out laptops everywhere!
Northern Voice 2010 Attendees: Boris Mann - member of the Northern Voice organizing committee, Stewart Marshall - mentor in residence at SFU and NV10 attendee rocking her Bloggable shirt.
Both Rosemary Rowe and Kate Trgovac are essential elements at any Vancouver technology event, especially Northern Voice.
Professional photographer Alex Waterhouse Wayward discussed the benefits of iPhone Photography in his presentation at Photocamp.
Northern Voice 2010 attendees: Catherine Winters - Wordpress/Drupal geek , Bev Davies and Alex Waterhouse Hayward - presenters at Photocamp and Reilly Lievers - Vancouver photographer.
The crowd at this year's Northern Voice conference was bigger than past years. Next year should be even bigger!
Vancouver geek Kimli definitely had a hit on her hands with her Smutton buttons that she makes out of recycled erotic magazines.
In case you missed out on the Northern Voice conference, don't fret. This geeky conference happens once a year and will be back better than ever in 2011.
For more information:
Flickr Photos with Northern Voice 10 tag
Georgie Straight Photo Essay Northern Voice 2010
Hummingbird604 Liveblog on Alex Samuel's panel 'Coping with Social Media'
Northern Voice: A tradition in year six on CityCaucus
Blog Posts tagged NV10 on Miss604's website
Rachel Smith Visual Notes from Northern Voice 2010
Complete List of Northern Voice 2010 follow up posts/media mentions
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