The Zap Your PRAM Conference is a gathering of creative professionals, academics, and intriguing people from around the world interested in design, the web and emerging technologies. We come together to relax and discuss design, media, art and technology.
To ensure diversity in point of view, interests, approach, and personality, the conference is by invitation only and limited to 50 attendees. If it feels like you should be invited, please ask.
Zap is not just a conference about technology, the internet, or gadgetry. It is not a yearly event nor is it a conference with a clear distinction between “presenters” and “attendees”. There are no paid speakers, no keynote addresses, no plenary sessions, no trade show, and no exhibitors.
Zap is not in a hotel with televisions or phones. You may not even have cell phone reception.
Zap is an opportunity to step outside the day–to–day cacophony, to take a broader view. Zap is intentionally remote and rural and is a conference where everyone is encouraged to contribute something—a session, a story, a discussion, a point of view.
Zap is for people who don't like going to conferences.
Zap is organized by Steven Garrity, Dan James, Peter Rukavina and a few of our friends. Zap is not a business, or a profit-making exercise. Conference fees cover costs, and everyone pays their own way.
Attendees can join our Zap Your PRAM 2008 Google Group for updates
If you read this and think “these guys are crazy”, then you probably don't want to come to Zap. However; if you read this and think “these guys are crazy, but it sounds like this might be a lot of fun”, then you should contact us now, because we'd really like to have you here.
Senior Developer from Blend Interactive and Gadgetopia
Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer
Network and systems administrator for silverorange
Founding partner at silverorange, documenting his life with photos
CFO for silverorange
Blogger and photographer who works on the Firebug at Mozilla
Developing a social network for Copenhagen, Denmark
Designer at silverorange and casual photoblogger
Product Manager for Dow Jones, music lover, and micro-blogger
Lead designer of Last.fm
Creative Director at silverorange and host of Acts of Volition radio
PEAR developer and programmer from silverorange
Web developer and founding partner at silverorange
Internet Marketing and city blogger for Chattanooga
Chief architect for Flickr, PHP programmer, and author
CEO of silverorange, hiker, traveller and weblogger
Weblogger and programmer from Malmö, Sweden
Software Developer from ZS Associates in Evanston
Uses comedy to express his fixations and frustrations
Librarian for the University of Prince Edward Island
Designer, photographer, artist, and computer enthusiast
Torontonian
Web developer and designer from Loca Lola Design
Spectacle Group, a design and communications company
Writer, producer, recording engineer from Stitch Media
Principal with ZS Associates in San Mateo and blogger
City Lawyer and blogger for the Beer Blog and Gen X at 40
Illustrator from San Francisco
Blogger, Band Member, Producer and Host for CBC Radio
President of The Renewal Consulting Group Inc.
Comic book lettering artist and web developer
Mozilla Corporation Evangelist, blogger, and photographer.
Principal of Reinvented Inc. and Charlottetown weblogger
Head of ZS Associates software development group in Evanston
Interaction architect & founding member of openUsability
Innkeeper and our host at Dalvay By-The-Sea
Uses the Internet to spread his music. Brad Sucks.
Student and developer at silverorange
Programmer, developer and tech lead at Digg