Earlier this week, I returned from Israel where I participated in Kinnernet, Yossi Vardi’s geek camp that took place to the shores of the Kinneret.
Cathy Brooks (of Seesmic) asked me there what was the best part. My answer was simply – “the beginning, the middle and the end”.
Yet, there were a few specific sessions, workshops & presentations I liked the most:
- Itai Talgam’s lecture about “management styles of great conductors”. It was fascinating to see how much the body language of conductors can indicate what type of managers they would be.
- Hanoch Piven’s “Art using Junk” workshop. This is the portrait of Avi Nimni I made (especially for Klieger).
- The home made satellite built from a PC, GPS, Digital Camera and transmitter connected to a helium balloon. Once in the air it sent photos of Jordan as well as its location and those coordinates were mashed up using Google Earth API to display its route. Very cool!
- Simon Levene (Accell Partners) presenting in a hilarious way the business plan for his next venture – WhoTheHell.RU. Does anyone have the video?
- Barak Berkowitz’s Paint with Light night workshop. Check out this art work.
- and last, but not least, the talented Ariel Qassis, who hypnotized me whenever his fingers touched the Qanun.
I am sure I am missing at least 100 other things that made this creative event simply great.
More photos can be found here, here, and a zillion more on Flickr
Update: Here is the video of Seder 2.0 by Peter Hirshberg
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I will be in Israel between April 9-13 for Kinnernet, Yossi Vardi’s geek camp & the TheMarker COM.Vention, Isreal’s Internet conference.
In case you are interested in meeting during the first day of the conference, drop me a note at jayblog {at} meydad.com
I will be slow on blogging during my time in Israel and use twitter as my main update too, so incase you are still not following me, now it is the time.
