Viva la San Francisco

My Trip to Wordcamp and Beyond

I leave for San Francisco tomorrow morning for what we at the Creative Space is going to turn out to be a high profile, mind inspiring, open discussion at the first ever BIL Conference. Its not quite in San Francisco, but four of us will be flying into San Francisco to catch up with with a lot of friends and hopefully future business partners in the area.

Good Turnout

Its funny how something that starts out as such a simple, and seemingly innocuous idea, turns out to attract some really big names in the industry. Some people I’m very interested in getting to meet are:

Robert Scoble - Founder of Fast Company and Human Blog Aggregator

Aubrey de Grey - BIL Speaker, 2007 TED Speaker, Working on solution for the Aging problem

Jason Youn - Photographer and Speaker

Todd Huffman - Scientist, deemed “Coolest Guy in the World” by several Creative Space members, first person to put a magnet in his fingertip to feel electrical currents, and talks on topics like “Hacking the Human Fantastic”

Martin Codrington - Talks on “How can we break these mental shackles imposed by assembly-line educational?“

These are only a few of the people which I plan on meeting. I plan on meeting a hypothetical metric ton of people, and want to absorb as much knowledge from them as I can possibly survive through.

I also have some more selfish goals in attending this conference. The two free days I have in San Francisco I hope to get some very nice urban shots to hang up in my studio. I love the way San Francisco looks, and hope to bring back some good shots of the city.