geeKyoto 2008 - London, May 17th

Mark Simpkins and O'Reilly author Ben Hammersley are putting together a conference on how developers can help save the environment called geeKyoto 2008. geeKyoto will take place between 10:00 - 16:30 on Saturday 17th May 2008 at Conway Hall in London.

We broke the world. Now what?

Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we'll live in it.

geeKyoto 2008 is a cross-discipline event, targeted at everybody with an interest in the world we live in.

Speaking we have:

* Adrian Hon - ARG Games Designer
* Christian Nold - Artist
* Gavin Starks - Website
* Alex Haw - Architect
* Ben Saunders - Explorer, Speaker
* DIY Kyoto
* Richard Sandford - Futurelab
* Adam Thorpe - Vexed Generation & Design Against Crime (Central St. Martins)
* Emma Mulqueny - UK GovWeb
* Mitchell Sava - PolicyWonk
* James Smith - Do The Green Thing
* Bryony Worthington

We will follow the event with a social meetup nearby.

We are also in discussion with the organisers of 4Good, The festival of social innovation and 4IP, Channel 4's new innovations fund to find ways to progress the ideas and conversations that start at geeKyoto.

geeKyoto 2008 is being supported by:

Proboscis is a not-for-profit artist-led studio which combines artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethos: we work across disciplines and practices - with associate artists, writers, curators, critics, designers, technologists, filmmakers, scientists and theorists - to explore social, cultural and creative issues.

It costs £20 to attend. Tickets are available at http://www.geekyoto.com/