Program

Posted In: BlogFest09 by admin on September 25, 2009

11/6 (Fri) Main program day

• 09:45~10:00 Registration
• 10:00~10:15 Welcome / Intro
• 10:15~11:00 Citizen Media: Global Voices Online in Asia, by GVO East Asia Editorial team
  • Introduced by: Rebecca Mackinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices Online
• 11:00~11:45 From Obama to MA19 — Case study of Ma Ying Jeou 2008 Online Campaign by Charlesc, Netivism.tw
  • Introduced by: Charles Mok, Chairman, ISOC-HK; Author, Hong Kong 2.0
• 11:45~13:00 Update on regional blogger conferences & activities:
  • CNBloggerCon by Isaac Mao
  • MYBloggerCon by Jeremiah Foo
  • Peace Initiatives through Blogging: the Mindanao Bloggers Experience / With an introduction to the Philippine Blogosphere by Oliver (a.k.a. Blogie) Robillo & Juned Sonido
  • TW Blogger BoF by Ching Chiao (Chair)
• 13:00~14:00 Lunch
• 14:00~15:00 Climate Change & The “Green” Issue
  • Chair: Filip Noubel, Internews
  • Disaster Relief 2.0: How we bridge the crowds, the media, and the government rescue endeavors with social media in under 10 days by TH Schee, ADCT.
  • Bloggers and social media users in the aftermath of typhoons Ketsana and Parma by Tonyo Cruz
    
  • Air pollution & creating a grassroots environmental movement: the importance of blogging by Joanne Ooi, Clear Air Network (CAN)
• 15:00~15:50 Blogging in Corporate & Commercial Landscape
  • Chair: Dr. Winnie Tang, President of iProA
  • How companies see the role of bloggers and blogging by Thomas Crampton, Director Digital Influence, Ogilvy PR
  • Speech by Alex Chu, Director , Jacso
• 15:50~16:00 Afternoon break
• 16:00~16:45 Open society in Creative Asia
  • Chair: Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia
  • Speech by Gen Kanai, Mozilla Japan (Video)
  • Speech by Jimmy Soriano, Creative Commons Asia
  • Speech by Gordon Lo, Principal Consultant, HKPC & Asia Open Source Software Center
• 16:45~17:00 Closing Remark

Evening program:

• 18:00~19:00 Asia Blogger Choice Award ceremony (limited tickets will be distributed on 11/6)
• 18:30~21:30 WebWednesday@Friday (entrance fee HKD 100)

11/7 (Sat) Birds-of-a-feather Day & HKBloggerCon

• 10:00~16:00 @ Function room: BoF / Barcamp / LT / Group discussion @ BlogFest.Asia ‘09
• 10:00~17:00 @ Conference hall: HKBloggerCon

11/8 (Sun) Workshop Day

• 10:00~12:00 @ Conference hall: NGO 2.0 — Building the social web for social change
• 10:00~17:30 @ Function room: Enable Citizen Media (By invitation only. Session will also include live video interaction with CNBloggerCon in the afternoon)