WebMediaBrands announced that its hosting the inaugural Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo in New York City this year. The event will take place on April 22-23, and feature the latest and greatest innovations in 3D printing. The conference will be chaired by 3D printing expert Dr. Hod Lipson of Cornell University.

“Inside 3D Printing is the first U.S. event to delve into the present and future of the business impact of 3D printing,” stated Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO of WebMediaBrands. “3D printing has become the next great technological disruptive force in the field of ‘making things’ and according to a recent article in The Economist, 3D printing ‘could well rewrite the rules of manufacturing in much the same way as the PC trashed the traditional world of computing.’”

Of course, it’s a little unfair that East Coast folks get to have all the fun 3D printing fun. Worry not, as WebMediaBrands intends to bring a similar show to Santa Clara, CA in September of this year.

In short, 3D printing now has two events dedicated to it coming this year. It’s really gratifying to see a technology finally get its own conference, and getting two in the same year is even better. It just goes to show that 3D printing is being taken very seriously now.

You can find out more about the conference at the official Web site. The event is looking for exhibitors and sponsors now so interested parties will want to sign up before it’s too late.

UPDATE: Commenter Duncan Wood points out that the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo is not the first of its kind in the U.S. If you want more 3D printing madness, you’ll want to check out RAPID and AMUG. The latter will be holding its conference a week before WebMediaBrands’. RAPID’s conference will be in June.

In addition to the general admission tickets sold for $35, GameStop is offering VIP admission for $100. Both are available for purchase with a credit card or with PowerUp Rewards points. VIP attendees will gain access to VIP lines for autographs and signings, access to a VIP gaming lounge, and admission to up to four General Sessions. The General Sessions will grant in-depth looks at upcomming games. Confirmed General Session presenters include Warner Bros., Namco Bandai, Ubisoft, and Square Enix.

Two quick notes for those of you already packing your bags for San Antonio. The conference will only be one day long for PowerUp Rewards members, and only five hours long. That’s certainly not enough time to experience everything at the conference, and might not be worth a cross-country trip. Also, the conference won’t be a big cosplay event. No weapons or items that can be “construed as a weapon” will be allowed in.

(photo courtesy GameStop)

The website for the event indicates that the conference is primarily for three types of AWS users: developers, enterprise IT, and start-ups. Developers can attend “getting started” sessions for a variety of different languages or attend advanced sessions focusing on architecture, monitoring, configuration management, and performance optimization. Enterprise IT can study app migration, APIs, and best practices for cloud security, among other topics. Start-ups can launch their companies in the conference’s “start-up launch theatre” where VCs, analysts, and the press will be in attendance.

AWS has been consistently making announcements and launching new features and services in recent months. Most recently, AWS rolled out its CloudSearch service, the new AWS Marketplace, and a partner network program. Jeff Barr, an AWS “evangelist,” announced the new conference on the AWS blog and stated that AWS re: Invent would not be a “stuffy vendor conference.” From the blog post:

I want to emphasize that this is not going to be one of those stuffy vendor conferences. I don’t want to give away any secrets but you can rest assured that this is something you don’t want to miss.

We are planning to keep you well informed, well fed, entertained, and fully engaged for the duration of the conference. There will be a wealth of opportunities for you to learn more about AWS, forge some connections with the service teams, meet others in the community and see what they are up to. You might need a vacation after this – it is Vegas after all and Vegas (and the Cloud) never sleeps.

What do you think? Are you already booking your flight to Vegas? Don’t think you need any AWS pointers? Couldn’t care less about Amazon’s cloud services? Leave a comment below and let us know.

(via GigaOM)

The Future of Access to Digital Broadcast Video
Friday, March 9, 2012, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Austin Convention Center Room 9 ABC

A Panel of Media Professionals will help Adobe professionals understand accessibility requirements and how to better implement them. Presenters include Andrew Kirkpatrick, Group Prod Mgr, Accessibility, Adobe Systems Inc and Craig Cuttner, Sr VP, Advanced Technology, Home Box Office.

The State of Browser Developer Tools
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Austin Convention Center Ballroom A

This series will focus on tools for debugging web-sites, remote mobile device debugging and other functions. Presenters include Brandon Strom, Garann Means, and Joe Stagner.

Social Role-Playing: Brands and Publishers
Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheraton Austin, Creekside I & II

A panel for publishers, Experts discuss the role of publishing in social media.

Adobe Creative Camp – a full day of Adobe fun
Monday, March 12, 2012, 9:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Radisson Town Lake Ballroom

• 9:30 a.m.: The Future of HTML5 Motion Design

Paul Trani talks about Adobe Edge, tools for creating motion and interactive web content.

• 11:00 a.m.: Boost your Mobile Workflow with Adobe

Adobe will unveil a new product for web designers and developers to help with mobile web workflow.

• 12:30 p.m.: “The Page is Dead,” Responding to the Responsive Web

A session focused on design philosophy and development techniques

• 3:30 p.m.: Demystifying Devices: Understanding the Future of the Web and Apps

Discussion on CSS, HTML5, jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, TypeKit and Sencha Touch

• 3:30 p.m.: Efficient Frontier/Context Optional Meet-up
• 5:00 p.m.: Building online businesses with Adobe Business Catalyst and Dreamweaver CS5.5

Efficient Frontier/Adobe Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Austin Convention Center

Adobe wrap party – Adobe will give away Efficient Frontier branded Moleskine Journals with one Golden Ticket inside. One lucky happy hour guest will get setup with CS5.5

The festival has been around since 1987 and afforded the somewhat geographically isolated metropolitan city of Austin the opportunity to rise as a seasonal empire in the music industry. Many corporate executives, actors, musicians, and agents from around the world come to gain visibility and do business.

Nas, a well established rapper from Queens, will be interviewed by his former manager Steve Stoute at the Austin Convention Center at 3:30 pm on Friday, March 16th. His first album debuted in 1994 and he is now adored by millions of fans for his memorable lyrics and stories. This platinum earning artist has triumphed over several controversies and is considered by Music News to be on of the greatest rappers to ever live.

His new album is under is under construction and will be a collaborative project with Bob Marley’s youngest son, Damian Marley.

The worldwide event will look at how social media affects and is affected by global events including weather, political change, etc. The following promo video was released last year, but bears a review here on the first day of the conference.

If you want to follow along on all the goings-on at the conference in any location around the world, see my earlier post about how to follow them on Twitter, via blogs, etc.

Twitter’s busy letting the world in on the sheer volume of apps that have been developed for the service and how they are going to help foster more growth in the near future. TechCrunch is convering the event and tells us

Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver just took the stage at LeWeb a couple of minutes ago, and shared some announcements with the audience about the future of the platform and the effect this will have on the ecosystem.

He also shared a milestone for the company: Sarver said 50,000 registered applications to date have been built using Twitter APIs.

The roadmap ahead:

Transparency: “we need to be more public about our policy and intentions”
Communication: “we need to be out there and let our developers know what’s going on”
Utility: “we need to keep providing our robust APIs and enable third-party developers to thrive”
Profitability: “when our partners succeed, we succeed” (more details coming early 2010)

Of course, since this is Twitter most people will laser in on the P word (profitability). Some of the significant ‘details’ around these areas is that everyone will have full access to the data stream in 2010 (what that actually means is TBD). Look for a new website for developers with dashboards and the like for the development community.

Also, as a sign that the development of apps is truly a big deal there will be a Twitter developer conference in 2010 called Chirp in San Francisco next year

The conference, which will be geared towards developers, is likely to be similar in some ways to Facebook’s F8 conference that is held each year in San Francisco. Not too many details were given but there is a landing page up already for the event (which is scheduled to take place sometime in 2010).

So Twitter continues to flourish and develop to try to handle the continued growth despite some concern about visitor fall off recently. I suspect that some of the developers are the very reason for this ‘concern’ as many people access Twitter through third party apps to begin with and those growing numbers are not tracked by these number crunching entities.

Looks like 2010 is going to be another big year for Twitter.

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TechCrunch tells us of the growing list of conferences that are starting to sprout up as a result of the use of (or confusion around the use of) Twitter for business purposes.

It looks like the trend of Twitter conferences is growing, with more events popping up around the country. As we’ve said in the past and will continue to say, there are tremendous opportunities for businesses, brands, non-profits and individuals to use Twitter as a tool for customer support, fund raising, brand management, advertising, job search and much more.

I have not attended one but I can imagine they must be pretty quiet because everyone is likely to be talking to everyone but those right in front of them. I gotta tell ya that when someone tweets that they are talking to someone I wonder if they are even listening to them or concentrating on their 140 characters of brilliance they are allowing the rest of their audience to ingest.

Of course, if you attended the 140 Character Conference in New York in June the venue itself (which was literally underground) forced Twitterheads to actually listen to others since there was practically no connectivity for the attendees.

Twitter is so fascinating in that it appears that so many folks are finding ways to monetize the service without the service monetizing itself. At least with Google (which face it, is why most of these conferences exist in the first place) makes money and knows that these conferences will only help it make more.

So if you are tired of the usual shows and you need more opportunities to ‘network’ then think about these:

• TWTRCN 09 DC- for non profits and government types. October 22 in Washington, DC.
• 140 Twitter Conference / LA – Endorsed by Biz Stone. Need we say more? September in Los Angeles (for those who didn’t get the LA part of the title).
• 140 Characters Twitter Conference – Jeff Pulver’s deal goes west coast on October 27th in Los Angeles.
• Cool Twitter Conferences- Apparently this is a traveling road show that has stops scheduled in Boston and San Francisco.

So don’t miss your chance to blow off work get out and learn more about Twitter and the future of communications. Hotel bars in the areas of these meetings can’t wait to serve you!

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• Advanced B2B Search Marketing – Jessica
• Identify, Analyze, Act: SEM by the Numbers – Thomas
• What’s New with Google Analytics and Website Optimizer? – Ashley
• Global Search for the B2B SEM – Jessica
• 5 Things No One Will Tell You About SEM – Dana
• Search Advertising 101 – Dana
• 7 Proven Ways to Get Your Website on Page 1 Organically & Then Convert – Thomas
• Landing Page Testing & Tuning – Ashley
• Keynote with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – Jessica
• SES San Jose Expo Hall Photos – Dana
• Measuring Success in a 2.0 World – Dana
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Danny Sullivan Third Door Media Lee
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Robert Scoble FastCompany.TV – Lee

Watch for even more in depth session coverage tomorrow on day 3 of SES San Jose. It’s so good, it’s like you’re here in person! Except you’re not.

Next up is the Google Dance!

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