Videos now available!

We've edited all the video feeds and slides together from the August 17th 2017 Material Conference. There were some though-provoking sessions! If you weren't able to join us in Reykjavik, you can now watch them for the first time, or go back and listen again to anything you might have missed.

Tell your friends and show your colleagues. The speakers explored the material of the web and future directions.

A big thanks to our speakers and all the participants who attended live and those who joined remotely. It was a great day.

Material Video YouTube Channel

For those of you who are more audiophiles and prefer to get your information on the go through your ear holes, you can also subscribe to an RSS feed of all the audio from Material Conference 2017.

Huffduffer RSS Feed

Huffduffer.com allows you to mix and match mp3s of music, podcasts and other audio files into playlists and podcasts of your choosing.

When you mash-up Material Conference sessions with other learning resources, tell us about it and we'll share the links with our readers.

Material Rot and Decay

As we've learnt, every material tends to decay, rot, stop working and disappear with time. Websites and links are no different. Companies get acquired, URLs change, domains are not renewed and content gets removed.

Someday, YouTube will not be as ubiquitous as it is today, maybe it's shutdown, turned off, censored or will lose our videos. To hedge our bets, we've also uploaded them to the Internet Archive. As a non-profit attempting to create a new Digital Library, we have more confidence they're in it for the long run. You can watch, share, download and torrent all 30GB of the Material Conference 2017 videos.

Material Conference 2017 on Archive.org

If you are unfamiliar with the work of the Internet Archive, I suggest you listen to Brewster Kahle's 02011 Long Now Talk entitled: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Then donate to make sure they keep going!

Book Recommendations

Attendees were asked to share book recommendations as they bought ticket to the conference. Here's a sample of some of the top picks.

We're already hard at work on the next edition. Stay tuned for upcoming 2018 announcements.