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Several Politics/Technology Conferences on the Horizon

My friend Alan Rosenblatt, who runs the Internet Advocacy Roundtable for the Center for American Progress, put together a good roundup of upcoming politics/technology conferences. I’ll be going to at least a couple of them.

The Heritage Foundation will be a sponsor of the Politics Online Conference at George Washington University next month. It’s our first time taking a formal role with the conference. Julie Barko Germany, the new director of the Institute For Politics Democracy & The Internet, has done a good job with this year’s agenda.

Here is Alan’s roundup of some other conferences you might want to check out:

Lots of great conferences coming up. Sadly, I can only make a couple of them. I will be at the Politics Online Conference on March 4-5. I hope to see lots of you there. The weekend before Politics Online, I will be attending the e-Democracy Camp in DC (see below for details). It will be a bar camp/unconference style event focused entirely on e-Democracy. That is my idea of a fun weekend.

Also coming up and worth attending is the We Media conference in Miami February 26-28 (note the lovely picture of me in the lower right corner of the conference info page). Also, NTEN will hold its National Technology Conference in New Orleans March 19-21. I will miss these two, sadly, but have attended them in the past and highly recommend them.

In between these conferences in the mega-event known as South by Southwest. In addition to films and music, there is a great interactive media component. I have yet to make one of these, but hear it is a blast.

Also on the horizon, the PDF conference will be this June 23-24 in NYC at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall. I went to last year’s conference and it was great. This year should be even better. Early bird registration ends tomorrow, February 5th.