Gnomedex

Gnomedex has grown into a conference exploring new and emerging technologies with influencers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts as the primary audience.

[3][4] A Gnomedex stage was included in the first Seattle Interactive Conference in November 2011 after Jake Ludington reportedly convinced Chris Pirillo to continue the event.

Presentations included: David Lawrence also made a live broadcast of his radio show Online Tonight from Gnomedex.

"Geeks Gone Wild") was held from Thursday, September 30 to Monday, October 4, 2004 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

[15] The podcast of Steve Wozniak's keynote address is one of the all-time most popular audio programs in IT Conversations history.

The conference took place from June 23–25, 2005. Notable presentations and activities included: Scheduled speakers and panels were: A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.

Gnomedex 6.0 was held in Seattle, Washington at the Bell Harbor Convention Center from Thursday June 29 - Saturday, July 1, 2006. Notable presentations were: The published roster of discussion leaders was: A sold-out crowd of over 400 people attended.

Listed below are the speakers, along with videos of their presentation (hosted on YouTube): The main hall was filled to capacity with almost 350 attendees.

Sponsors included Blue Sky Factor, Chevrolet, CNN.com, Design Reactor, General Motors, HP, Mighty Leaf Tea, Pathable, SolarWinds, SnapStream, Sony, TechSmith, Ustream, Viewzi, WeatherBug, and Wetpaint.

Commercial sponsors included Amazon.com, BlogWorld, C-K Graphics, Comcast, CNN.COM, Digital River, ESET, Griffin, Hawaiian Airlines, Hewlett-Packard, ICanHasCheezBurger, Ipswitch Software, Jinx, Leatherback Printing, Mashable, Microsoft, nPost, PC Pitstop, PCC Natural Markets, PhotoJoJo, Picnik, Ping.fm, ReadWriteWeb, RealNetworks, Seesmic, Shozu, Starbucks, ThrowBoy, Ustream.TV and WeatherBug.

Commercial sponsors included American Public Media, Atlas Networks, Banyan Branch, the Bellevue Business Journal, BlogWorld, Deploy Day, EventBrite, GirlsInTech, GoDaddy, Griffin Technologies, Hotel Max, Hover, IAmEastSide, the Issaquah Press, Jones Soda Company, Mashable, Microsoft, the Modern Media Man Summit, Parallels Holdings, PCC Natural Markets, Pipeline Deals, Pooper Trooper, PopChips, Privacy Identity Innovation, the Public Insight Network, RaceVision, RealNetworks, ReveNews, Seagate, Seattle Net Tuesday, SeattleWineGal, SmartCup, Social Media Club Seattle, SuperAntiSpyware, Swedish Medical Center, UStream.TV, Washington Technology Industry Association, WeatherBug, Yelp and Zing Bars.

Chris Pirillo wearing the Gnomedex 2007 T-shirt.
Chris Pirillo wearing the Gnomedex 2007 T-shirt.
Chris Pirillo at Gnomedex 2005
Chris Pirillo at Gnomedex 2005
A Gillmor Gang photo from Gnomedex 6.0
A Gillmor Gang photo from Gnomedex 6.0
A woman with long black hair, black-framed glasses, red lipstick, black nail polish and hoop earrings and a ring necklace speaks into a mesh-tipped microphone
Violet Blue speaks at Gnomedex 10