AllThingsD » Guy Laurence http://allthingsd.com Sun, 27 May 2012 01:00:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Kara Visits PICNIC in Amsterdam (and Hopes Head Does Not Explode) http://allthingsd.com/20080923/kara-visits-picnic-in-amsterdam-and-hopes-head-does-not-explode/ http://allthingsd.com/20080923/kara-visits-picnic-in-amsterdam-and-hopes-head-does-not-explode/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:08:43 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=4249

BoomTown is now right next to a canal–no falling cows in sight!–in Amsterdam, here for an unusual digital conference called PICNIC, which starts Wednesday and runs through Friday.

With sessions like “We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity,” “The Emerging Real-Time Social Web” and “The Future of Business Creation,” it seems to be a place for big, messy Web ideas.

Speakers from the U.S. include former Microsoftie Linda Stone, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and Internet thinker and author Clay Shirky.

For PICNIC’s conference onstage, I will be interviewing Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries on the future of television, and the CEO of Vodaphone Netherlands, Guy Laurence, on the future of mobile.

But I am a little worried, after seeing this promo video for the conference, that it is a little too brainy for me (Warning to those who don’t like seeing heads exploding in a bloody mess!):

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