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CodeKen 2012 is an online conference happening on Tuesday 6th November 2012 via Google Hangouts On Air. The speakers include Seb Lee-Delisle talking about his PixelPhones project and Estelle Weyl talking about mobile web development. The schedule can be seen here. The schedule mentions Day 1 and Day 2, but elsewhere on the site it says it is a one day event, so I’m not sure which it is. Anyway, go ahead and register, so that you are notified about the start nearer the time.

Another conference coming up (next year) that looks interesting is Resonate. It is taking place in Belgrade, Serbia and is on from 21st – 23rd March 2013. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday 23rd October 2012 and only cost €55 if you get in there early.

The current list of speakers includes (among others) …

• Casey Reas
• Golan Levin
• Andreas Müller
• Kyle McDonald
• Memo Akten

The full website for the conference launches on 6th November 2012.

Follow the organisers on Twitter here.

I’ve just come across an awesome conference happening in Munich, Germany on 23rd & 24th November 2012. It’s called the Push Conference, and is focussed on User Experience (Sold Out) and Interactive Arts. I’m particularly interested in the sessions by some of the people on the second day …

• Kyle McDonald
• Karsten Schmidt
• Marius Watz

There are still tickets available for day two (Interactive Arts) and they are currently only € 89.00

A new podcast has been brought to my attention called the Creative Coding Podcast.

Hosted by Seb Lee-Delisle and Iain Lobb, two names I’m sure you will recognise from the UK Flash scene.

They will be discussing the ins-and-outs of programming for visual and creative applications. The first episode only went out on 30th January 2011, so it is still early days. Give them your support by subscribing in iTunes now.

Here are direct links to the three episodes so far …

• Episode 1: Web games, HTML5 and Jangaroo
• Episode 2: Mobile Devices Special
• Episode 3: Molehill and Processing with Jer Thorp

Enjoy!

UPDATE – October 29th 2012 – New episodes have been added below …

• Episode 4 – Flash Special (plus WebGL and Unity3D)
• Episode 5 – Game Design and Conference Etiquette with Ryan Henson Creighton
• Episode 6 – openFrameworks, Adobe CS5.5 and multi-touch gaming
• Episode 7 – openFrameworks and Open Source with Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis
• Episode 8 – Rome, Chrome and Angry Birds
• Episode 10 – Teaching Game Development, Stencyl and New York
• Episode 11 – Eyeo Festival with Golan Levin and Ben Fry
• Episode 12 – Art from code with Casey Reas and Marius Watz
• Episode 13 – JavaScript, Corona and Seb’s jumbotron
• Episode 14 – Live from Flash on the Beach! With Lee Brimelow, John Davey and Keith Peters
• Episode 15 – Unity3D with Aras Pranckevičius
• Episode 16 – Flashageddon with Stacey Mulcahy
• Episode 17 – Coding a platform game, haXe NME and Big Spaceship’s Joshua Hirsh
• Episode 18 – How to teach programming, with Daniel Shiffman
• Episode 19 – Trolling, jQuery and Open Frameworks with Joshua Noble
• Episode 20 – CSS Special with Val Head
• Episode 21 – three.js with Mr.doob, live from FITC Amsterdam
• Episode 22 – Meeting Flash game developers at Flash Gaming Summit
• Episode 23 – Making games with Flash, Node.js and Scratch
• Episode 24 – Game cloning, intellectual property and ideas
• Episode 25 – US visas, retina screens and art for non-artists
• Episode 26 – Kyle McDonald meets the Secret Service
• Episode 27 – openFrameworks and C++ with Zach Lieberman

I have just found about the Eyeo Festival, and WOW, what an amazing line-up of speakers there is!!

Here are just a few names from the speaker list …

• Zach Lieberman
• Theo Watson
• Robert Hodgin
• Casey Reas
• Aaron Koblin
• Ben Fry
• Jer Thorp

The event is lasts for three days, is on from June 27th to 29th 2011 and is being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.

The venue is the McNamara Alumni Center, and looks like a pretty amazing building. Check the images of it here.

Visit the official website to find out more information.