The first edition of Research In Motion's BlackBerry World will be held in the first week of May. The event encompasses "everything BlackBerry" and is open to all BlackBerry users. Rumors suggest RIM will announce one or more new BlackBerry smartphones during the event as well as showing off its recently launched PlayBook tablet.
1st BlackBerry World
May 3-5
Orlando World Center Marriott
Orlando, Florida, USA
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The annual BlackBerry Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) is now part of BlackBerry World, a new conference dedicated to Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry mobile phone and tablet platform. BlackBerry World provides a 360° view of the BlackBerry platform from exciting new technology and software announcements to discussions about how the BlackBerry mobile solution can be improved. BlackBerry World expects to attract around 5,000 putting it on par with Apple's WWDC and Google’s I/O developer events, however unlike WWDC and Google I/O, BlackBerry World is no longer just reserved for developers. There are Demo sessions to show products in action, BlackBerry Training sessions, hands-on labs, and keynotes by top industry executives.
http://www.blackberryworld.com/
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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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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/
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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2nd TechCrunch Disrupt
May 23-25
Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue
New York City, NY, USA
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TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day conference run by technology blog TechCrunch. TechCrunch’s Disrupt conferences unite technology innovators, leaders and users to discuss the changing face of today's media and technology. The NYC event covers all facets of technology trends, from real-time social networking and software in the cloud to tablet computing, smartphones and rich media platforms. In addition to panel discussions, keynotes and roundtable conversations, attendees will be entertained with the Startup Battlefield launch competition and a ‘Hackathon.’ In addition to Disrupt New York and Disrupt San Francisco (September 2011), TechCrunch will host the first Disrupt conference in Beijing in October 2011).
http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/
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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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10th CeBIT Australia
May 31 - June 2
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour
Sydney, Australia
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The Australian edition of the world's largest digital IT and telecommunications event, CeBIT takes place annually in Sydney, Australia. CeBIT Australia is hailed as the country's largest ICT exhibition (but is only around a 10th of the size of its parent event, CeBIT in Hannover). CeBIT Australia is a focal point of an additional series of events (including AusInnovate NBN, eHealth, eGovernment, Cloud Computing and WebForward) that will run concurrently to the exhibition. More than 600 exhibitors and 30,000 delegates are expected to attend CeBIT Australia in 2011.
http://www.cebit.com.au/
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