Category Archive Travel

Burning Man 2015: A field study of design

. Once again I had the pleasure of attending Burning Man, an annual event with 70,000 people in the desert north of Reno in Nevada, US. This time I was representing Danish Design Centre, and did a write-up on our blog about how design is one of the pillars making the phenomenon what it is. […] Read More…

Panels at Internet Week Denmark and Folkemødet 2015

    In June I took part in two interesting panel discussions. One was part of the annual Internet Week Denmark conference, which ran for several days in Aarhus in the beginning of June - and the other was at the rapidly growing Folkemødet ("People's Meeting") festival for politics and societal debate. For Internet Week I had been […] Read More…

Keynote at GO Open Data 2015 conference in Niagara region, Canada

    These last couple of days I've had the pleasure of spending time with the Ontario open data community, as I gave a keynote talk at the GO Open Data 2015 conference in the Niagara region (more specifically the city of St. Catherines, an hour's drive south of Toronto, right next to the Niagara Falls) on May 1, […] Read More…

Appearing in Swedish National Radio + panel videos from OuiShare + speaking at EU HOMER conference in Sevilla, Spain // #OuiShareFest

. During my recent visit in Paris to attend the OuiShare conference I was interviewed by Swedish National Radio, whose weekly show "Klotet" (Swedish for "Sphere") was focusing on sharing culture. This means I got a chance to practice my Swedish-Danish once again (I apologize to both languages for the abuse). Listen to the program […] Read More…

Speaking at OuiShare in Paris + heading to Republica, Berlin // #OuiShareFest #rp13 #OSFopen

. . These next 9 days I'll be in Paris and Berlin to participate in two conferences: OuiShare (Paris) and Re:publica (Berlin) - as part of my community manager work with Open Knowledge Foundation. At OuiShare I'll do two panels: The first titled "Open Government Data: What, how, why?", that - as the name states […] Read More…

Speaking at Open Source Days 2013 (Copenhagen) on Saturday and Foraarsmessen (Aalborg) Friday

. . I have two public speaking gigs lined up for this upcoming weekend. On Saturday on the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen, where I also spoke last year. This year I'll give a talk titled 'Open Government Data: What, why, how?' (16.30 on the Ernst & Young stage) as well as meetup up […] Read More…

We won the Artbeat Award!

  Yesterday in a ceremony at Teater Grob in Copenhagen, we (Platform4) won the newly established Artbeat Award! The award, which officially celebrates the best within Danish cultural dissemination and will be given to a project or a person within the cultural environment that has managed to combine something artistically new with forward looking communication, […] Read More…

Nominated for ArtBeat Award today w/ Platform4 – alongside Spotify and TV2-News (with cultural minister Marianne Jelved)

. Artbeat Prisen 2013: De nominerede from HAVE Backstage on Vimeo. . Even though I've officially left Platform4 on December 31, 2012, there are still a few related things to attend to. One of them is quite special, since Platform4 late last year were announced as one of 4 nominees for the new ArtBeat Award […] Read More…

All 5 Burning Man tv-programs now online // #burningman

. . As described previously here on the blog, I had the fortunate opportunity to go to the magnificent Burning Man Festival this past summer (of which I have these thoughts). A tv-crew followed us and have now edited the footage into a series of programs that have aired through November 2012 - see them […] Read More…

Back from Prague, now onwards to do talk in Helsinki @ Open Knowledge Festival // #OKfest #CC

. This weekend I spent in the good company of old friends, with whom I travelled to Prague for a long weekend of relaxation and to attend the Coldplay concert there. Good times and what a show. We're talking U2 stage production scale here - and in Chris Martin, the lead singer, an iconic performer. […] Read More…