For this year’s mesh we’ve secured a great hotel rate – $179 a night – for our guests coming in “from away”. The rate is only available until May 11, so if you need accommodation, check out the details in the FAQ.
In case you haven’t been keeping track, it’s May already — and that can only mean one thing: the mesh conference is less than a month away. Check around the site for more info on the amazing speakers and panelists we have coming, including Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Tom Williams and Austin Hill, Christine Herron, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Rachel Sklar of Huffington Post — and the list goes on.
Tickets are going fast, but there are still a few left if you hurry 🙂
One thing we’re doing again this year is the “15 Minutes of Fame” segment on each of the two conference days, in which three deserving entrepreneurs and/or their startups get five minutes each (hence the 15 minutes) to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the Web since YouTube. Last year’s winners included the gang at TakingITGlobal, as well as AreYouFrank.com, Favorville.com and Pixpo. Stowe Boyd wrote about the 15 Minutes here, and Tara Hunt wrote about it here.
Same idea this year: head over to the sign-up form and give us a pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd to wow them with your brilliance. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory.
Another person that Leesa Barnes snapped up for a podcast interview during the recent mesh meet-up at the Charlotte Room was Jerry King. Somehow, he managed to turn the tables on her, and got Leesa to talk about how she’s managing a start-up while writing a book, and the biggest lesson that Leesa took away from organizing a Podcamp. Leesa and Jerry also touched on the problem between unconferences and conferences, and the type of Web 2.0 projects he’s looking for.