The great thing about conferences these days is they don’t completely vanish when everyone hops in their planes, trains or automobiles to head home. Artifacts and media from the event show up online, and continue to appear weeks or months after the fact.
At the conference we asked everyone to tag their content with “vteu08″, at the time google returned only one result for that query (and it was our blog) – today you’ll find almost …

Why should you come to VizThink ‘09? What could you learn? What will you be able to do with what you learn? These are all great questions, and while we certainly can help with those answers (check out the visual we created for VizThink ‘08), it’s always interesting to see the answers directly from some of our previous attendees. During the last general session in Berlin, we posed those same 3 questions to our attendees …

To close out VizThink Europe Tom & facilitated a final session focused on the visual thinking community. We wanted to close out the conference by helping to connect the attendees with other visual thinkers from their region or country. We wanted to facilitate the attendees learning a bit more about each other in hopes of creating some more local relationships to help boost the visual thinking community between conferences.
This also being our first conference in …

The Tuesday morning general session was facilitated by Ole Qvist-Sorensen & Amber Nystrom and focused on the opportunities for using visual thinking to help contribute to solving the challenges of Climate Change. Both Ole and Amber have dedicated a lot of their personal time towards climate change education and action
They explained that there are nine months to the Copenhagen Agreement where almost 10,000 decision makers will gather and set a direction for the years to …

By Monday afternoon things were beginning to settle into a rhythm.  As Tom told me, the general rule of thumb is once you’re past lunch on the first day things tend to smooth out as everyone has done everything once (registered, been to a general session, found a breakout room, and found where to eat).
The afternoon general session was one I was looking forward to as it had the potential to be fairly controversial and …

The morning of day one came very early, or at least it sure felt like it, one of the side effects of these conferences is great conversation, the kind of conversation that somehow takes you deep into the night in the hotel bar without you realizing what time it is until the bartender turns the lights on (and then off entirely a little later). But there I found myself, at the registration desk by 7am …

It’s hard to believe two weeks ago we were just sitting down to kick-off VizThink Europe in Berlin. The three days shot by in a flash and I think, in some regards, both Tom and I are still digesting the experience which is what has delayed this recap a bit. The reality is, in many ways, VizThink is a conference like no other – I’ve experienced them now from both sides of the table – …

Can you believe that VizThink Europe is just 10 days away?  We’re really excited about the great line up we have planned.  We have some of the best visual thinkers from around the world coming to this event.  We have lots of resources available for you including facilitator biographies, session details, and just released today, the official conference guide (click the cover to open the guide in a new window, 1.5MB):

If you’ve been waiting to see the entire schedule, …

One of the favorite parts of my job is to talk to all of the amazing people in our industry.  There is some incredible work going on in all areas of visualization.  It’s very exciting to have access to some of the latest research and to be able to share it with the community.  In the case of Moritz Stefaner and his research with FH Potsdam in Germany, they are solving two problems.  First, often …

We are exactly 1 month from the start of the next exciting VizThink event, VizThink Europe.  As we get closer, the Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre, the conference hotel and location of all of the sessions, is filling up quickly.  Many people are taking advantage of the great location in the heart of West Berlin to add a few days on both sides of the conference which results in even the days before and after the conference filling …