Be2Camp Birmingham FREE

A year on from last year's very successful event at Fazeley Studios, Be2camp Brum 2010 will once again be an 'unconference' about social media, digital tools and the built environment. It will be held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 - 8.00pm. Register via our eventbrite page.

Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project

Speaker: TBC Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham

Speaker: TBC Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham

Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown - Be2Camp Be2Camp Awards - The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com Self publishing + augmented reading

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org http://www.talesofthings.com

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People Disability & Digital Accessibility

Speaker: TBC Creative Republic in 2010

We hope that the lunch time start and late finish will encourage a more social affair in collaboration with the nearest pub in the evening, also allowing people to join us later in the day after office hours. We'll make a start with presentations around 12:30pm, running on until around 6:30pm, then on to a local pub for some 'networking'. Please let us know if you'd like to give a presentation or offer a workshop approach to the things you do.

Offers of sponsorship will be gladly received.

Notes: *be2camp = Built Environment + Web 2 + camp (camp is term used to describe a free, informal conference)