Gnomedex
Can You Get Gnomedex Tickets for Free? Maybe!
Since 2001, we have been producing Gnomedex, a conference that brought to the stage hundreds of thought leaders and many influencers before they were influential. We started Gnomedex 10 years ago in Iowa, and the conference has since grown to one of the premier tech conferences in the nation. After last year’s event, I announced [...]
How Does One Man Open Our Eyes and Minds?
This is a guest post written by my assistant, Kat. While all opinions are her own, I wholeheartedly agree with every word she writes. Mark Horvath is an amazing individual and the work he continues to do on behalf of homeless people inspires us all. One of the things I did to help plan Gnomedex [...]
How To Help Public Education
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Trish Millines-Dziko founded Technology Access Foundation in 1996 after spending 15 years as a developer, designer and manager in the high tech industry. Her successful career brought her to Microsoft in the mid-1980s, just as the pioneering software company was set [...]
Lasers Lift Off From Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Tom Nugent is the Co-founder of LaserMotive, where he is working to develop ways of recharging unmanned aerial vehicles, such as the “drones” used by the military. Tom previously served as Research Director for LiftPort Inc. — one of the pioneers [...]
How to Put Trust Back in Your Business and Your Life
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Todd Welch is the author of the book Trust, How to put “it” Back in Business. Shortly after Gnomedex 9.0, he started a thousand-day journey studying trust and learning from his experiences to share with others. He co-founded Charter Partners, a [...]
Why is Your Identity So Marketable?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During Gnomedex, we asked the audience to put ideas on a whiteboard to tell us what types of spontaneous talks they would be interested in hearing. Privacy is a hot issue, and someone asked the question: “Why is my privacy so [...]
Browncoats: Redemption Fan Film Comes to Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Michael Dougherty is co-creator and producer of Browncoats: Redemption as well as the writer and director of the film. He spends most of his free time dedicated to this project. During the day, Michael currently is Emerging Media Manager of the [...]
Gnomedex Geeks Without Bounds
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Johnny Diggz is a musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur and the Chief Evangelist at Tropo. In 1995, Diggz launched iPost Universal Messaging, the world’s first Internet-based unified messaging platform. In 2001, he co-founded Voxeo, the industry leader in unlocked communications. He produced the [...]
Gnomedex Gets Smart (Cup)
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Larry Wu brings over 27 years of brand and business development experience to the SmartCup Board of Directors. He is currently the VP of Product Development for SK Food Group in Seattle, and most recently served as COO for Bossa Nova [...]
Sustainable Living at Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Scott Mueller is a quirky-smart thinker with leadership experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He’s passionate about helping people see their true potential and getting them to places they never thought possible. Scott and his wife, Alex, started an [...]
What Does the Future of Mobile Development Hold?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During Gnomedex, we learned about the future of mobile technology. Amy Karlson is a researcher in the Computational User Experiences (CUE) subgroup of the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) research area at Microsoft Research, focusing on HCI and [...]
What is a Tech Maven?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Women in top technology positions are scarce — but they’re out there. They just need a safe space to rock out, rally the troops, and share success stories. The vision for Tech Mavens is to create a crashpad. A launchpad. An [...]
Tim Hwang Brought Web Ecology to Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Tim Hwang is the founder and current director of the Web Ecology Project, a research community dedicated to building an applied science around measuring and influencing the system-wide flows of culture and patterns of community formation online. He is also currently [...]
InterConnection Connects Communities at Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed InterConnection provides computers to under-served people and communities around the world. From their Seattle-based computer recycling and reuse programs to schools and organizations far and wide, they make a connection that makes a difference. They create opportunity through computer reuse. Company [...]
The People of Gnomedex
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Michael Foley is one of those people that everyone loves to stop and talk with. We’re very grateful for that fact, since he managed to interview many of the movers and shakers who attended Gnomedex last month. Michael was kind enough [...]
