World Blogging Forum Vienna 2010

Each ses­sion fea­tures 3 to 4 light­ning talks (5 to 10 min­utes) fol­lowed by a round-table discussion.

A Twit­ter list of every­one who is speak­ing on stage can be found here.

9:00–10:00
Open­ing speech by Werner Reiter

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10:30 – 12:30
Ses­sion 1: Global Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Trends 2010 to 2020: An in-depth look at the future of dig­i­tal media
Social Media is evolv­ing at a rapid pace, yet nobody knows if Google and Face­book will still be the major play­ers in five years. But even if the play­ers change, the under­ly­ing ideas of the social web are going to play in impor­tant role in tomorrow’s media-sphere. How will the social graph par­a­digm evolve? Is mobile inter­net access going to be a key dri­ver for new forms of aug­mented real­ity? In which ways will the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion con­tinue to shape our con­cepts of “intel­lec­tual property”?

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12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

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13:30 – 15:00
Ses­sion 2: Pol­i­tics, Edu­ca­tion, Work and Health: The role of dig­i­tal media in future soci­eties / Futur­is­tic Lifestyles
McLuhan antic­i­pated a “planet-wide, global nervous-system” long before the inter­net became a part of our every­day life. Yet after almost 20 years, the vision of a global com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem has only become real­ity for rel­a­tively small seg­ments of the over­all pop­u­la­tion. Lan­guage bar­ri­ers, cen­sor­ship and the urge to con­trol this ris­ing empire of bits and bytes have led to many con­flicts. Will soci­eties of the future con­trol the indi­vid­ual or will be able to use the net as a means of extend­ing per­sonal and polit­i­cal freedom?

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15:30 – 17:00
Ses­sion 3: Evolv­ing Pro­sumers: Trends in media usage / pro­duc­tion in the next 10 years
Tra­di­tional mass media dis­trib­utes infor­ma­tion in one direc­tion. The inter­net based on its many-to-many par­a­digm has com­pletely changed that. While crowd-sourced projects like Wikipedia flour­ish, social net­work­ing has gone main­stream. Every con­sumer has the tech­ni­cal means to even start their own online tv sta­tion com­pletely for free. But what does this cul­ture of free actu­ally mean? What are the eco­nomic foun­da­tions of the dig­i­tal econ­omy, and how will con­tent pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion change in the course of the next ten years?

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17:30 – 18:30
Final Dis­cus­sion Round

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22:00 – Open End
WBF 2010 Party at Mar­ket Club
After a day of intense dis­cus­sions we invite you to join the World Blog­ging Forum Vienna 2010 party. We have teamed up with Vienna’s finest: just a cou­ple of weeks ago, some of the most pop­u­lar Vien­nese DJs opened a new club named mar­ket. Look for­ward to a live set by Microthol and groovy elec­tronic beats by Vienna’s finest mixmasters.