Jan Willem Tulp’s blog

One of the conferences I would love to attend is VizThink ‘09. VizThink is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning and communication. They organize conference in North America and Europe for community members to meet and to be inspired.

The conference should NOT be attended if:

• you think bullets are best (ironic that this is a bullet list!)
• you would rather listen to a PowerPoint lecture, than participate in the creation of a story
• you want to continue doing things the way they’ve always been done

If you want to be inspired by exceptional speakers, guru’s, industry leaders, scientists, or industry leaders from companies like Google, or Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design (who helped Al Gore with his Nobel Prize winning presentation), or Apple, or Colin Ware from the Data Visualization Lab, you MUST attend!

Just imagine yourself watching presentations about subjects like:

• Moving beyond bullet points…using storytelling for presentations
• Aligning individuals using visualization
• Visualization in 3D? When does it matter
• Facilitation using photographs
• Designing compelling and effective information graphics
• Virtual worlds: future or fad
• Creating a global visual language
• Using visuals for powerful presentations
• Storytelling through comics and graphic novels
• Visual techniques for analyzing data
• Visualization principles for software design
• Facilitation through live sketching
• Can there be a true language with grammar and structure that uses visuals?
• Visualization as a brainstorming tool
• Organizing your world with visuals

For me it’s just a little bit too expensive to attend for now, so I’m looking forward to the European Conference in 2009, I will attend! Wanna join me?