conferences
Come discuss AR with me @ York Mobile Media Lab
Date: Monday Dec 7, 2009
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
Where: Mobile Media Lab, York University
Technology Enhanced Learning Building
88 the Pond Road, Room Tel 2001
Link: Thomas Purves talk at Mobile Media Lab
Who knew that since I gave my first Augmented Reality talk back in April of this year that AR would become such a trending topic amongst marketers, geeks [...]
Get on this: CaseCamp is back, huger than ever and this time for SickKids
You might also call this CaseCampWorthTheWait, this one is bigger, huger and also larger than ever, featuring a full on mini-conference followed by a casecamp classic. The latter part is free as always, but your donations ($50 is suggested) is going towards SickKids. Eli Signer the superhuman behind CaseCamp and his team of rockstar collaborators [...]
Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world
For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly coherent narrative of the various thoughts on this topic currently spinning in my head my [...]
How the mobile web and “augmented reality” changes retail forever
At South by southwest interactive this week (SXSW) a huge theme was “augmented reality” the idea of, Amazon-app style, pointing your phone at any product to get more information -or a better price- online. We’re getting to a world where holding a mobile device means all of the potential knowledge and intelligence of the cloud [...]
Heading to Mountain View, San Fran next week
I’ll be down in the Bay Area next week for eComm2008 from the 12th to the 16th. Just in town for a few days but looking forward to meeting up with a few geeks and other trouble makers both during the conference and over the weekend. Drop me a line tom [at] thomaspurves.com if you’d [...]
Joshua & Gwendolyn at eTech this year
UPDATE: Temporarily unposted while they were in Cuba, now reposted. If you are at Etech, don’t miss this one on Wednesday. From just what I’ve heard of their experience there so far, not to be missed!
I’m super excited that my friends Joshua Kauffman and Gwendolyn Floyd will be presenting presenting at ETech this year. And [...]
What I learned from GameOnFinance – these gamers, they’re just like us
The good folks at Interactive Ontario invited me to the innaugural GameOn Finance conference on Friday. I was lucky to catch a number of livelier sessions. And this, is what I learned about video games:
Historic distribution models are changing and who the new winners will be is uncertain. Sure console gaming continues to print [...]
GameonFinance gets cooking
Wow so since I last looked, there’s been an impressive lineup brewing for Toronto’s own GameOn Finance conference (Jan 17/18). It’s no secret that gaming is one of the media industry to be in these days. Latest list of presenters
Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer – Gamelab
Richard Iwaniuk, Director of Business Development – [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology designer, futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of Toronto. Thomas not currently available for hire (though you are always welcome to try).
