[Sigia-l] Good Experience Live (GEL) | New York | May 2003

[paula.thornton]

[Passing this along on behalf of Mark Hurst -- popular presenter at our
first conference.]

A new experience-design conference: Good Experience Live (GEL) Come to this
New York-based conference in May!

The GEL conference:

Topic: Experience, online and offline
When:  Friday, May 2, 2003 (a one-day event)
Where: The New York Historical Society
       Manhattan's Upper West Side
       New York City
Price: $495 before April 1; $695 starting April 1.

Register: http://www.goodexperience.com/gel

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The purpose of the Gel conference is to explore what it means to create a
good, meaningful, or authentic experience.

Gel is a one-day event that brings together over a dozen eclectic speakers
who are experts in a number of fields. Internet-related topics (on
e-commerce, research, journalism) will be interwoven with offline topics
(photography, performance art, education, history) to create a day focused
on *experience* in all its forms.

Learn by example as speakers talk directly about specific experiences - how
they're made and why they're good. Gel will spotlight people who are
directly engaged, day-to-day, with unique and meaningful experiences. Gel
will give you new ideas about how to create a good experience.

Gel is the only conference of its kind, focusing on experience itself,
rather on design taxonomies or frameworks that only indirectly relate to
experience. We all know a good experience when we see it; at Gel you'll hear
the user's perspective, since (designers or not) we're all on the receiving
end of experience most of the time.

About the Gel Experience:

The Gel conference will focus on creating the best possible attendee
experience.

- Location: Gel will reflect the unique personality of its home city - New
York - starting with its venue, the New York Historical Society, whose
president (a leading NYC historian) will start the day as the first speaker.
This museum embodies the personality of the city, filled with priceless
paintings, photos, and other artifacts of this city's history.

- Speakers: Gel's speaker list might be the most diverse you've ever seen.
Speakers range from VPs of top-10 websites and the New York Times e-commerce
columnist to authors, a performance artist, a cartoonist, a social activist,
and many others - all renowned in their fields for their expertise in
experience.

- Schedule: Each speaker will get 15 to 20 minutes to give his or her
presentation. The day will be divided into four blocks of four speakers
each, allowing over a dozen different perspectives to be heard. Several
breaks are scheduled for the day, allowing you to meet any speakers you
particularly enjoyed.

- Price: Ticket price is a major part of the attendee experience, which is
why we've kept the price as low as we can afford. Our price is the lowest
per-day cost of any conference we're aware of.

Conference information here:
http://www.goodexperience.com/gel