DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT

August 27th to 29th, 2010

CAMMAC, Lake McDonald, Quebec

Are you ready to present?

Bitnorth is an informal, eclectic gathering North of Montréal. The rules are simple: if you attend, you have to present. Subjects range from the technical to the sublime, from art to warfare, from the carbon footprint of beer, to the musical instruments lurking in an iPhone. It's as if TED, Foocamp, and Ignite had a baby, and that baby lived in the woods.

Bitnorth 2010 will explore the idea of Human 2.0. Humans and machines are merging as never before, through augmented reality, social networks, digital government, and a life lived through our iPhones and Androids. While this means a torrent of exciting technologies, it also raises serious ethical questions. Can we expect any privacy in the future? How should government change? Will prosthetic memory make our minds atrophy? Is the digital divide turning into an uncrossable chasm between the connected and the organic?

Come join us.

Bitnorth is brought to you by

"Bitnorth expanded my network, my knowledge, my views and my mind. Both sides of my brain left very happy."
Duncan Hill

• It's participatory.
  Like Fight Club. If you come, you have to present/share/teach.
• It's disconnected.
  Be here and now with the people who attend. Your online friends can wait.
• It's informal.
  No fancy food, no fancy clothes, no fancy people.
• It's eclectic.
  If you don't like the topic, wait ten minutes.
• It's for smart people.
  Get up and engage us. Tell us something we didn't know.
• It's about technology changing people, and people changing technology.
  But that's not a rule.