BIL 2009

Just two days after BIL in San Diego there will be an interesting one-day conference on ‘Smart Power’ in foreign policy, sponsored by the Center 4 Smart Power and National Institute of Urban Search and Rescue.  Hard Power is traditional warfare, where Soft Power is humanitarian assistance or disaster relief.  Transitioning from the soft/hard dichotomy [...]

BIL is full at 450 participants, but we’ve decided to obtain more space as sponsorship comes in.  If you’d like to come to BIL please register here, and you will be added to the wait list.  As sponsorship allows us to get more space we’ll allow people in on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you sponsor [...]

BIL is currently full, and we’re waitlisting future registrations.  There are still some spots left for speakers, so if you are speaking register and post your talk. We can allow more people in if we get more sponsorship.  It costs about $20 per person to cover the costs (venue, event insurance, chairs, clean up, etc…), [...]

Photo by Scott Beale When we asked BIL’ders how best to improve BIL, the #1 response was “record the talks and put them online.” Last year we did have Robert Scoble livestreaming the event through his cell phone and Qik, and Adrian Cockcroft posted the audio from some of the talks. This year we wanted [...]