PICNIC is a platform for meetings, seminars and workshops organised by an incredible group of people. You can find the full list of events during PICNIC under Specials and PICNIC Club. A special selection of events you cannot afford to miss follows here..
KLM brainstorm on Flight of the Future at PICNIC07. Picture Thomas Schlijper.
Amsterdam Creative Tour, Syntens, platform for entrepreneurship, the Amsterdam branch of the Chamber of Commerce and new media business incubator MediaGuild invite our international delegates, investors and the press for a networking boat tour from the Picnic ‘08 festival area to a project market and fancy drink in the lobby of the fully renovated Amsterdam Branch of the Chamber of Commerce. If you want to know more about Amsterdam’s hottest start ups, this is where you want to be. Thursday, 18.00-21.30,
PICNIC’s Choice. We are delighted with the outcome of our first PICNIC contest for researchers, artists and start-ups. Erwin Blom selected 16 start-ups based on their video diaries in the week preceding PICNIC. Sabine Niederer en Anne Helmond selected 25 researchers who will meet during the Enquiring Minds special, and who will all write about PICNIC as well. And 25 Artists were selected by Rob van Kranenburg, who will meet during the ‘Ideosyncracies’ Special, and who have some great plans to cover PICNIC from a very different angle.
Games go Social Don't miss out on the most powerful gaming revolution since the release of Pong, the iconographic videogame. After fundamentally changing the internet and the ways people communicate and interact, the entire games industry is about to be socialized. During the Picnic the special 'Games go Social' brings together a superb line up of international speakers to explore this development in detail. Sign up for this all day special on Friday 26 September
Surprising Africa. Last year PICNIC presented developments in China, this year our special target region is Africa. Find out why Google, Vodafone and Nokia are developing new businesses there, how Africans are building peace using mobile tools and how young artists are investigating their changing cultures through new media. Learn all about the vibrant and [[www.picnicnetwork.org/page/22316/en fast moving technological and creative developments in Africa in this all day special on Friday.]
Coolpolitics. Plenty of cool people are joining us, and Coolpolitics is bringing a very special person to town. Mads Kjaer, Chairman of the Kjaer Group of Denmark, co-founded MyC4, ‘the Amazon of micro finance’. He will tell his story at the Cool Politics Power Lunch on changing democracy. And he will do more that just that – he will offer social entrepreneurs their first bit of capital at PICNIC. Sign up now if you want to change the world.
Idea meets Money During the PICNIC event, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and ABN AMRO will organize three matchmaking sessions in the 'Creative Business Lounge, which is part of the PICNIC Club. If you wish to talk to venture capitalists, bankers or entrepreneurs, do not forget to make an appointment .
