Tech agenda: Boston Cyberarts Festival brings together tech and art

People heading to the Boston Cyberarts Festival will be encouraged to look at the world through smartphones and digital screens as they enter the world of augmented reality. During the biennial technology and art festival, leading cyberartists will show how cutting-edge technology and digitally inspired creativity can be harnessed to create beautiful works of art.

7th Boston Cyberarts Festival
April 22 - May 8
Various locations in Boston
Boston, MA, USA
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The Boston Cyberarts festival is a biennial celebration of technology and art.  This year's event looks back at the history of Cyberart and features visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film, video, and performance. There is an educational program which runs alongside the event plus a program of lectures and symposiums featuring visionary thinkers in the fields of technology, science, design and art. Similar events include the Ars Electronica Festival (September 2011) MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology aka FAST (February-May 2011) and the Kinetica Art Fair in London (date TBA).
http://bostoncyberarts.org/festival/
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6th The Next Web Conference
April 27-29
Westergasfabriek
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The Next Web Conference is run by technology blog The Next Web (TNW). The three-day conference is a hub for thinkers who want to investigate and explore the future of the web. Speakers include notorious hacker Pablos Holman, founder of the Pirate Party movement Rick Falkvinge, American blogger Robert Scoble, and chief strategist, Digital Media at Adobe Mark Randall. This year TNW will invite 200 developers from across Europe to participate in its first TNW Hackathon.
http://thenextweb.com/conference/
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1st Smart Cities
April 27-28
Wyndham Grand Plaza
Hangzhou, China
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Smart Cities is a two-day conference run by ABI forums that investigates how existing and emerging technologies can be stitched together to create more efficient cities. Through forums, lectures and case studies, Smart Cities discusses how complex IT, telecom, transportation and utility technologies can be networked together to form a coherent system. Smart Cities is one of a number of new conferences that are exploring the future of connected cities including Tonkin’s Smart Cities 2011 in Australia (July), the Cognitive Cities Conference in Germany (February), and Smart Grids Smart Cities in Portugal (September).
http://www.abiforums.com/event/Smart-Cities/home


12th  Solarexpo
May 4-6
Verona Exhibition Center
Verona, Italy
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This year's Solarexpo has joined with Bioenergy expo - the trade fair for the bio-energy industry. The Solarexpo covers photovoltaic units or solar panels, street lighting, hydro and wind power and bio-energy devices such as heating systems. In 2010 the event attracted over 1,000 exhibitors representing 43 European and non-European countries and received 69,500 visitors from the industry. The exhibition is smaller in terms of visitor size than Enertec in January yet has a much wider focus.
http://www.solarexpo.com
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17th FutureEverything Festival
May 11-14
Various venues in Manchester
Manchester, England
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Formerly known as the Futuresonic festival, the FutureEverything festival is a wide-ranging event that includes "world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music program, and visionary thinkers from around the world." The FutureEverything conference will explore topics like emotional computing and digital culture within urban environments, FutureEverything music will showcase ground-breaking performances and FutureEverything art will celebrate creative new media and digital crafts. A host of satellite events and workshops will also take place around Manchester parallel to the festival. In 2009 the FutureEverything festival attracted 75,000 visitors.
http://www.futureeverything.org/
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Google I/O
May 10-11
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Google I/O is the company's largest developer event of the year. The intensive two-day event focuses on development for Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, and open web technologies. The event will feature 80 sessions and more than 100 demonstrations given by some of the more than 3,000 developers expected to attend the event. It's the place to talk with the engineers building the next generation of web, mobile and enterprise applications. Free viewing events are hosted around the world, online and at Google offices, for those who can’t attend the event in person.
http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/


31st COMPUTEX Taipei
May 31 - June 4
Taipei World Trade Center
Taipei, Taiwan
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With 106,450 square meters of exhibition space, Computex Taipei is the largest computer exhibition in Asia, second in the world only to CeBIT in Germany. Many large computing firms have research and development centers or production factories in Taiwan and will be coming to the 31st edition of the event to launch their new products. A full spectrum of products are set for launch during the event including e-readers, 3D technology, mobile devices and tablet PCs. More than 121,000 visitors attended Computex in 2010 to see products and services from over 1,700 exhibitors.
http://www.computextaipei.com.tw/
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