A year on from last year's very successful event at Fazeley Studios, Be2camp Brum 2010 will once again be an 'unconference' about social media, digital tools and the built environment. It will be held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 - 8.00pm

We'll update this page with more details as we head closer to the event, but in the meantime take a look at the be2camp web page for a full list of last year's speakers and their presentations: Be2camp Brum 2009

Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.

The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project

Speaker: TBC
Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham

Speaker: TBC
Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham

Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown - Be2Camp
Be2Camp Awards - The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility

We hope that the lunch time start and late finish will encourage a more social affair in collaboration with the nearest pub in the evening, also allowing people to join us later in the day after office hours. 

We'll make a start with presentations around 12:30pm, running on until around 6:30pm, then on to the bar for some 'networking'.

Our Sponsors:

Location:

The entrance to the Library Lecture Theatre is down the left hand side of the main building as you walk towards the front.

Here's a map:

Notes:

*be2camp = Built Environment + Web 2 + camp

(camp is term used to describe a free, informal conference)