Update 2011 is not your mama's conference: it's not just about mobile technologies and user experience, it is an experience… starting with the pre-conference dinner on the 4th of September.
The pre-conference dinner will take place on the 4th of September, 2011 at the Royal Pavilion. It will include a private tour and drinks in the kitchen. Very limited places available.
Beyond the administrative headache, charging VAT creates two price tiers: one for VAT-registered individuals and companies and one for non-VAT-registered ones. Basically, if you're not VAT registered, you end up paying 20% more for things. What this means in practice is that individuals that can afford it the least (mostly freelancers, if you think about the audience for Update) get shafted with an additional 20%. That sucks.
Introducing Update's "one price for all" policy. Our solution for dealing with the VAT issue.
Well it took me three years to recover from organizing the world's first fully-virtual web conference, <head> with over 70 amazing speakers, in-world conference hubs in the UK, US, Switzerland, Belgium, and Second Life, and several thousand attendees. And by recover, I mean to forget what a huge undertaking it is to organize a conference.
But the time is perfect for a mobile conference in Brighton, and so I give you the Update conference: the human touch – iOS and beyond.
March is about to become a mad month for me, starting tomorrow (or perhaps it started on Friday, with Geek Ninja Battle Night). Today, I'm off to London, staying overnight at Heathrow (and hopefully attending this evening's NSCoder night in London) before flying to Lithuania tomorrow where, on Thursday, I will be presenting the opening keynote at the LOGIN conference, in front of an expected audience of over 2,000 (no pressure!)
March is shaping up to be a crazy month. In the next ten days, I'm speaking at four conferences and holding one iOS workshop (with another to follow at the end of the month).
Friday night was Geek Ninja Battle Night, an evening of talks, drinks, and fun organized by Geek Ninja Factory.
An evening of talks, drinks, and fun, with Sarah Parmenter, Andy Clarke, Remy Sharp, myself, and a little over sixty lovely audience-members.
