At VizThink ’09, Ole Qvist-Sorensen challenged the audience during his general session presentation, “Survival Academy: Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice,” how we as visual thinkers could contribute to saving the world by putting our talents to work on global problems. That struck a chord with me, so one of [...]

I brought along a tiny little video camera called the GoPro to VizThink and tried it out at Tuesday morning’s general session. It’s a wide angle lens camera with a limitation of 56 minutes of video and really limited audio. I set up the camera on the table during the general session [...]

Finally back home after family visit following VizThink in San Jose. Day 2 was a heavy hitter, packed with content from the start. The morning kicked off with general session, featuring some sponsor presentations followed by Ole Qvist-Sorensen presentation, Survival Academy: Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice. Ole asked us how [...]

Starting out on day 2 here in San Jose. Day one was a whirlwind of networking and sessions. Started out in the morning general session with Tom’s Table Scramble, chaos and commotion in the main conference room as Tom created networking opportunities for people along with a real-time live data visualization using the attendees ourselves [...]

VizThink 09 kicked off today with the opening reception in the lobby lounge, along with an Fairmont’s Oscar party. By my count about 60 – 70 VizThinkers congregated around the bar under the big screen broadcasting the Oscars. Lots of conversation, mingling and networking going on. A bit noisy and congested for my taste so [...]

Karen and I arrived to the conference hotel late Friday night and spent most of Saturday wandering around the neighborhood checking out restaurant options. More on that below.

The Tweet-up was scheduled for 6:00 in the hotel lobby and we arrived around 6:15- 6:30 and didn’t see anyone we recognized or any indication of a [...]

Tony Karrer’s comment in my last blog post about doing a T-shirt for the upcoming VizThink conference was a great idea. Tony’s suggestion was to do a T-shirt with my mind map from the previous post that shows what my visual thinking interests are. Great idea, but I [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since the first VizThink conference. VizThink ’08 renewed my interest in visual communication, but I came home from it a bit overwhelmed by all the types and disciplines within visual thinking. I spent the first several months after the conference trying to identify and [...]