The WIRED team is about to move to a new office in central London -- but, truth be told, most of our best work comes when our journalists stray far from their desks. Recently, our Play editor has been meeting brain scientists in Tel Aviv, our Start editor has been at the Stream "unconference" in Turkey, and the Science editor has been following up with contacts made in Washington DC at TEDMED. And don't even remind our ever-patient production team that their itinerant editor has been lately annoying them from Kerala's INK conference and Dublin's Web Summit.
That's because the people who push the boundaries in WIRED's world -- the creators, discoverers and adventurers -- tend to tell their stories first among like-minded curious types on the stages of first-class events. Glancing through half a dozen recent editions, I can pinpoint scores of stories that we first learned about over coffee at TEDGlobal or at a Founders Forum dinner.That's why this month we have created a self-contained guide to some of our favourite regular events, which includes conferences, informal gatherings and creative hangouts that we think you'll enjoy. Don't worry, though, if the travel commitment or ticket prices put them beyond your reach -- we pledge to bring you the best that we find in future issues of WIRED.
Also this month, we offer some highlights from our own WIRED2013 event at the end of October, when we brought together 48 speakers for an intense two days of keynotes, networking and some extraordinary evening entertainment from such talents as Lang Lang.
Our real discovery, though, was an experimental third day that we created to inspire 12- to 16-year-olds. WIRED Next Generation offered hands-on workshops, exciting expert talks and product demonstrations, with the purpose of raising the expectations of teenagers on the cusp of deciding what they want to achieve in the world. The buzz was so electric, the feedback so intense, that in 2014 we hope to scale Next Generation up from 600 people to around 1,500. Let me know if you want to get involved.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
