3rd Annual BIL Un-Conference
While this week much of the media hype will be about the ultra exclusive TED Conference. We'd like to turn your attention to an equally dynamic and deep thinking conference, that YOU can actually participate in! The BIL Conference is an open forum "Un-Conference", that has no rules, no pre-approved speakers, just the open invitation for anyone to get up a talk. Talkers can speak on any subject they'd like, and the range can be VERY diverse, and VERY thought provoking.This years BIL Conference will take place at MOLAA on Friday Feburary 12th and Saturday Feb 13th where great thinkers will converge to discuss all manner of new ideas and developing studies, from their collective and extensive area of expertise.
"This will be an amazing year for BIL" declared Megan Klimen, one of several core organizers of the event. "This year promises to be better than the last, with exciting speakers such as Steven Jurvetson talking about rockets and Matt Bell pontificating on self sleep experimentation. We're setting the stage for another year of idea sharing and development, and we're predicting a huge turnout."
BIL is an ad-hoc conference that offers an organic, DIY format. Speakers post their talks, and throughout the weekend-long event, participants can propose their own discussion groups. Many of these are in response to ideas introduced in the scheduled talks; many come from discussions that happen in the hallways of the venue, or that night at the bar, or in line for morning coffee.
"That's the nature of this event," says Denise Hill, BIL enthusiast and underwear model. "It's a self-organizing creature, and it's reflective of the quality of people who attend."
Kari from the Primespot.com invited me to my first BIL Conference last year, and I would HIGHLY recommend this free speaking free thinking weekend to all of our 562CityLifers who over the last year have proven themselves to be thoughtful, compassionate, individual thinkers, that will surely rival any of the outstanding talkers at TED!
See my blog from last years Un-Conference here. To sign up for BIL, visit bilconference.com.
Kari also has a great interview with Todd Huffman of BIL Here.
If you make it out to BIL this year, I'd love to hear about it from you...
Kari also has a great interview with Todd Huffman of BIL Here.
If you make it out to BIL this year, I'd love to hear about it from you...
Tags: bil, long beach, ca, longbeach, molaa, ted, theprimespot
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Comment by Richard Harris on February 18, 2010 at 9:53pm -
We attended the first day and were struck by the variety of interesting topics, and the creativity, enthusiasm of the tech-savvy presenters and attendees. Hope to go to the next BIL, later this year in San Diego.
Tried to conduct a walking tour of Signal Hill as one of the outside events, but had scheduling problems. We'll try again next year, when they return to L.B.
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Comment by ThePrimeSpot.com on February 13, 2010 at 1:21pm -
Uh, today is SATURDAY and the event ends at MoLAA at 1:30pm
Come join BILians for lunch on Pine Ave (Alegria).
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Comment by The Man on February 11, 2010 at 2:01pm - What time is this event?
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Comment by ThePrimeSpot.com on February 11, 2010 at 1:12pm
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That is a cute pic of the founders, Bill, Todd and Cody (BIL, TOD, COD, jk).
Just so you know about free FLIPs: www.BILconference.com www.JILconference.com and www.twitter.com/BILconf
Have a great radio show tonight, 562!
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Comment by The Man on February 11, 2010 at 10:37am
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I think I'm going to go to this event. I want to write down some stuff I can talk about...
After part as well??
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Comment by JulsnMatt1028 on February 11, 2010 at 10:23am - That's great guys, you really will enjoy this I promise! They after party too! :)
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Comment by victor roman on February 11, 2010 at 9:41am - There appears to be so many choice speakers and topics to see and hear - I will be there Friday A.M and am especially interested in catching: Eric Gradman – The Cloud Mirror: Uncomfortably Augmented Reality & Johannes Bhakdi – Web 3.0: User Generated Business
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Comment by Eric Leocadio on February 11, 2010 at 9:27am - I'm gonna try to make it out there on Saturday afternoon!
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