PSFK...

Well...more than you'll hear in the average day at work, certainly..

I've been sitting on this for a little while, so sorry Piers & the gang.

Anyway, PSFK are hosting a Good Ideas Salon, filled with some great speakers. The blurb is below - and to give you idea what the last London one was like, here was some of my writeup...

"On 30th January 2009, PSFK will host a day long Good Ideas Salon in London in association with The Guardian newspaper. For the event, PSFK will curate a collection of their favourite forward-focused innovators and thought leaders to discuss ideas in the fields of arts & culture, collaboration, design, digital, marketing, mobile and youth.

SPEAKERS

PSFK will bring almost 30 speakers to present and participate in panel discussions. Confirmed speakers include:

Kevin Anderson \ Blogs Editor \\ The Guardian

Mike Butcher \ Journalist \\ Mbites
Richard Banks \ Interface Designer \\ Microsoft

Coralie Bickford-Smith \ Designer \\ Penguin
Matt Brown \ Editor \\ Londonist

Pat Connor \ Vision Executive\\ BBC

Mark Earls \ Author \\ Herd
Jeremy Ettinghausen \ Director of Digital \\ Penguin

Piers Fawkes \ Trends Analyst & Founder \\ PSFK
Paul Graham \ Partner \\ Anomaly UK

Amanda Gore \ Trends Consultant \\ PSFK

Terry Guy \ Founder \\ Monorex\Secret Wars
Matt Hardisty \ Founder \\ Analog Folk
Dan Hon \ Founder \\ Six To Start
Sophie Howarth \ Founder \\ School Of Life
Matt Jones \ Founder \\ Dopplr
Cameron Leslie \ Founder \\ fabric\matter

Jonathan MacDonald \ Senior Consultant \\ Ogilvy

Kate Moross \\ Designer

Colin Nagy \ Partner \ Attention
Colin Nightingale \ Creative Director \\ Punchdrunk \ Founder \\ Gideon Reeling
Jenny Owen \ Founder \\ Ruby Pseudo
Christian Nold \\ Artist
Justin Quirk \ Associate Editor \\ FHM
Nicolas Roope \ Founder \\ Hulger\Poke
Taryn Ross \ Founder \\ Urban Junkies

Eva Rucki \ Founding Partner \\ Troika Design
Jeff Squires \ Trends Consultant \\ PSFK

Simon Waldman \ Director of Digital \\ The Guardian
Paul Andrew Williams \ Film Director \\ Steel Mill Pictures


Hope you can come along. Should be good.

More PSFK - Get It While It's Hot....

Hello there. Regular readers will recall me writing a missive about the PSFK London Conference, writing about the first 3 people I saw (prior events stopped me writing the rest up - let me know if you'd like to read my thoughts on the rest) and so forth.

Anyway, it has been brought to my attention that there's going to be another one going on. Here is the blurb, if you can't be arsed to click the above link:

"It happens 18th September in West Hollywood. Here's the scoop on who's talking:

We have celebrated street artist Shepard Fairy talk about his art and commercial work, we have Missy from Suicide Girls talk about the rise of her alt.porn empire, we have Blair Witch co-creator Mike Monello talk about the future of content, LA Times digital director Jason Oberfest talk about what the hell a newspaper's supposed to do is this sea of change, we have a bunch of superb LA journalists & bloggers talk about why LA culture matters to the rest of the world, we have the founder of Fred Water explain the birth of his brand, we have folk from Nokia, Starbucks, Sony BMG, Yahoo! talking, we have lots of others - and - we have George Parker bringing up the rear."

Would you like to attend? Well, if you would (and sadly, I can't), but would like a discount, get this early bird special (a bloody good deal that runs out in about two weeks time). However, if you miss that bad boy, try this one (which also seems to be valid for a similar length of time).

Never let it be said that I'm not attentive to my audience. I can't make it, but I hope one or two of you can make it...it looks cracking.