The past month has been full of great events in Seattle for the entrepreneurially minded technology industry. First there was Seattle Mind Camp a few weeks ago. It felt much “tighter” than previous Mind Camps, they really encouraged folks to put more thought into hosting topics for the open sessions.
We had a Games night at Dorkbot, which was very well attended (about 120 folks?). It started with a particularly great talk by Jordan Weisman and Elan Lee from 42 Entertainment, those guys are really breaking into new territority using the entire globe of media as a platform for their mega-collaboration game space.
Then we had Ignite organized by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly and Bre Pettis with Make. I liked the format of this meeting (5 minute talks), it kept the energy going pretty high all night.
There’s a real sense of the community “gelling” which is great. There seem to be some common emerging themes in conversations about the nature of innovation, collaboration on a large scale, fostering more interaction in the Pacific Northwest, integration of real world goals and online social networking, etc. I’m really looking forward to seeing where this all goes.
I gave a talk, plugging Dorkbot. It’s an important part of my agenda as Dork Overlord to encourage people to consider all these new technologies as mediums for creativity. There’s an amazing sense of new emerging innovation at the intersection of art and technology.
