ConventionCamp

The Convention Camp is a conference to consider the Digital Future, Social media and network culture. Since it is a blend of classic meeting with fixed program and a so-called unconference, the organizers but they call themselves prefer Internet (un) conference. It takes place every year since 2008 at the Exhibition Grounds Hanover and by admissions, the largest BarCamp in Germany.

History

The Convention Camp was established by the t3n magazine or the publisher yeebase media and web agency w3design into being in 2008. The first event was held with 250 participants at the University of Hanover on October 2, 2008. Initially were knowledge management and social media software for companies in the foreground.

The second Convention Camp was held on 26 November 2009 and has been attended by some 1,000 participants. For the first time to the Hannover fairgrounds was Ausrichtungsort, focus of the program was the generic term Web 2.0 and the impact of policy decisions on this.

In 2010, the Convention Camp was first organized with the support of the Institute of Marketing and Management at the University of Hanover, it reached 1,300 participants. The thematic focus was first on the exploration of the digital future, in particular so-called smart cities. In the course of the event for the first time the German Social Media Prize.

On 8 November 2011, the fourth Convention Camp was organized. Against the background of Stuttgart 21 and Occupy Wall Street was on the interfaces between society and the Internet in the center of the program. A total of 1,500 visitors attended. In the evening, the so-called t3n Web Awards were awarded for the best German sites in multiple categories instead of the social media price.

The fifth convention Camp was held on 27 November 2012. The organizers are the communications agency neuwaerts, Broken Sang public relations, and foresee the t3n magazine. Social Business, Smart Life ( by definition of the organizers: networking of all aspects of daily life ) and Media Future are the main topics dar. The speakers are among many others the sevenload founder Ibrahim Evsan, a professor of communication and media studies Beate Schneider and known Techblogger and Sascha Pallenberg Netbooknews founders expected. In addition, a keynote by Julian Assange is transmitted via Skype.

In 2012, the so-called Web Week Hannover took place around the Convention Camp, were carried out in the framework of which a number of events related topics. It also included many practical workshops.

Importance

The stated aim of the Convention Camp is to bring together decision-makers from industry and research with bloggers, geeks and other influential activists of the Internet scene that would perhaps otherwise not so easy come to exchange ideas with each other. Thus, new ideas for the digital future will be generated. A part of the Convention camps, for example, a thematic speed dating, in which several people share their visions each in groups of two and a short ambitious time frame of five minutes.

Instead of an exclusive offer of frontal lectures, as is common on conventional conferences, the aim is that speakers and listeners interact with each other on an equal level. Thus, at the beginning of the event, each visitor or any visitor 45 seconds to submit its own proposal for a paper review or workshop can vote on all the participants. From the most attractive offers then arise the so-called free sessions that make up alongside the previously existing ' expert lectures 50 percent of the convention Camp.

With 1,500 participants, the last ConventionCamp is currently (as of September 2012) largest Barcamp in German-speaking and after the re: publica is the second largest conference for internet issues in Germany. The discussed topics at the event reach a wide reception in the trade press, including the participation of prominent speakers contributing. To have been involved in the ConventionCamp as speakers, for example, Markus Beckedahl, Frank Schätzing, Richard Gutjahr, Kai Biermann, Nicholas Carr and Robert Basic.

The initiators of the Convention Camp 2011 with the LIDA Award in the category of Lower Saxony. The abbreviation stands for LIDA Leader in the Digital Age, patron of the award was the Lower Saxony Minister of Economics Jörg Bode.