Lloyd Dangle, the illustrator behind the packaging for Airborne and the San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly comic strip Troubletown, rocked Sex::Tech with caricatures and artistic interpretations of our speakers and their sessions.
We suggest you watch the video of the sessions here, then compare our speakers’ likenesses to the doodles here. And and and, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and that Sex::Tech presentations are available to download!
Sex::Tech 2009 was beyond superfragilisticexpiali- awesome! Really, it was and we have the video and photos to prove it. Head over to ISIS’ YouTube Channel and Flickr to get a taste of Buckworld One’s edgy, high energy performance.
You can also see what Dean Eckles from Nokia Research Innovate Design Experience Animate (IDEA) Team and Kevin Bertram of Distributive Networks said during the 2nd day keynote!
The presentations of our Sex::Tech attendees are also available for download here. We hope you enjoy all these tasty media morsels and REALLY hope you’ll come out for the next Sex::Tech! Don’t forget to add us on Twitter!
It was a pleasure to be apart of the ISIS team and in helping set up Sex::Tech 2009. I learned about great resources and met really neat people. It felt like a place where I could actually belong; with all the energetic, positive people, all getting together to build a foundation of truth and reality!
Buckworld was amazing. They way they told their story through “Crump” and theatre, well, it was beautiful, and strong, and heart wrenching, and real.
The Unconference session was great. Everyone who wanted to share something or have a group discussion with people signed up for a sessions and the attendees got to choose whatever one they wished to go to. I held one myself that was for teens only, and we talked about the different things we were doing in our communities to make a difference and how to reach our peers about keeping themselves healthy and having the knowledge to get out of itchy situations.
When I asked presenter Domenic Storti what he though about Sex::Tech, he said that he was, and I quote “… blown away…I’m very new to the whole sexual health and technology field and so I learned sooooo much from so many people. I will certainly apply and incorporate what I learned at Sex Tech into the work we’re doing at Peel Public Health in particular text messaging…such an amazing opportunity to connect with youth using the technology they converse in.” He has confirmed that he will “most definitely” be attending Sex::Tech 2010! When emailing it up with mk Eagle, I heard, “Sex::Tech is awesome! I’ve never been at such a youth-friendly, diverse conference.”
And so, with much positive feedback, the ISIS team is satisfied with the turnout of sex::Tech 2009. [except Sex::Tech 2010 should be even BIGGER next year!]
And attendees out there, don’t forget to take the email survey! Thanks!
More of what makes Sex::Tech the place to be March 22nd - 23rd!
There’s still time to register!
By now you’re registered for Sex::Tech, got your hotel accommodations in order and are probably pondering the line up.
“Access Sex: Engaging and Serving Youth with Disabilities” with Cory Silverberg of Come As You Are Co-operative, Bethany Stevens of Morehouse School of Medicine, Jennifer Cole Co-Founder of GimpGirl, and Liz Henry of Blogher, is not to be missed.
The session will feature a brief introduction to the social model of disability and how this model empowers both youth and service providers over a medical model. The learning component will include a personal narrative of growing up with a disability and the experience of being a youth with a disability searching for sexual information online.
Cory Silverberg is the resident sex-pert over at About.com’s Guide to Sexuality page.
Bethany Stevens’ research focuses on the sexual issues of women with disabilities, the effects of media representation on sexual agency and transability.
Jennifer Cole is the co-director and founder of GimpGirl Community and will share her experiences running and participating in a web-based support group that deals with issues of sexuality.
Liz Henry is a web producer for Blogher, a unique online community for women bloggers that seeks to create exposure, education and economic empowerment opportunities.
Let the countdown begin!
Hi! I’m Natalie Treacy and I’m ISIS’s student intern, working to help put together the number one sex ed/youth/technology conference today!
And guess what? Sex::Tech 09 is just around the corner! I’m really excited about Sex::Tech 09 because last year, (Sex::Tech 08) I had a fabulous time being entertained with the topics of today that a lot of people have trouble even approaching, including: How to get “healthy practices”/ sex ed out to the youth through technology, how I could help out in my community, seeing what other organizations are doing for THEIR communities and how they can grow, what youth TODAY think about Sex Ed in their schools and what they want to change, and a great deal of other things.
Since I had the opportunity to be on the program committee and was a part of the program building process, I’ve gotten to select a couple sessions that I’m most interested in. They include 1) Rana Barar’s presentation called Your Voice, Your Rights: Promoting sex ed activism online, because it’s about figuring out what teens want or their sex education and how to improve sex education in schools. 2) PASSHEN Peer Educator presentation called What’s more youth-friendly than the youth themselves?: Sexual Health Peer Education In Action, because it’s a presentation by youth and will include an “innovative approach to sexual health education through open discussions, interactive games, skill building activities and class participation.”
Plus, you get to meet with all the presenters and gain resources!
So get ready to explore, discover, and for your brain to explode with some of the most key information for today.
There’s too much good stuff going down in San Francisco this year. A couple of months after Sex::Tech mark your calendars for the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, June 1-2 2009, where you can learn about authentic, ethical youth marketing tips. On the fence about going? Well if you’ve registered for Sex::Tech 2009 you can save 10% on registration by using a special code “SEXTECH”. More who-what-where-and-when below!
2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup
June 1 -2, 2009 | San Francisco, CA
Ypulse Events offer insight, resources, and community for professionals who market to and work with youth—and who wish to reach them in an authentic, ethical way. The 2009 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup is where top brand, corporate and social marketers, media professionals, educators and non-profit organizations gather to share best practices, research and latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. Get an insider’s view into youth-focused tech and media, and learn how to leverage social media, gaming, virtual worlds, mobile and more to connect with youth. Save 10% on registration by using special code SEXTECH!
See you there!
Remember when our President Barack Obama was in the midst of campaigning and announced his VP via text message? Well, the mastermind behind that mobile marketing campaign, Kevin Bertram CEO of Distributive Networks, will break it down as our 2nd day plenary keynote! He’ll cover the many ways you can utilize SMS and other mobile technologies to engage peeps around your every desire. Well maybe not your every desire but definitely around health and activism.
David Eckles from Nokia Researches Innovate Design Experience Animate (IDEA) Team will also roll through as our 2nd day keynote, with lots of insights around transforming technology communications to improve cross media experiences.
You may have also heard of this thing called the “Unconference.” Yes, you heard right – Unconference. This will be an unstructured time for you to network and link up with others who want to talk about the same things you do! Anyone can present their ideas, cruise for feedback and form those oh so crucial partnerships while having Sex::Tech fun.
This is only a taste of the good stuff to come. Hold on to your butts and keep checking back for updates!
We’ve kept you waiting long enough! Time for a taste of what’s in store for Sex::Tech 09: take a peek at a few of our Presenters Topics:
* Librarians are so chic! They’re also supporting teens by providing free access to comprehensive sexual health info via their presentation “Fostering Digital Information Literacy: How Libraries Support Teen Sexual Health”.
* Spend some time learning about how you can integrate Mobile Bluetooth “Proximity Marketing” into your next sexual health social marketing campaign presented by Toronto’s Public Health Dept.
* “Social Media101: Everything You Need to Know To Get The Most Out Of Sex::Tech But Didn’t Want To Admit You Didn’t Know” pretty much says it all….can’t wait to see how that presentation is going to blow our minds.
* We all want to know how to obtain and/or maintain romantic connections through technology in “Interweaving Intimacy and Electronic Technology”. Make sure you grab your seats early for this one.
Keep coming back to the Sex::Tech blog for more abstract updates over the next few weeks. Make sure you follow the Twitter for more daily conference updates too!
We are now into February and just days away from presenting the Conference Schedule.
We have a thrilling group of presenters and sessions planned out so stay very tuned!
For now we can tell you that we will be having a fabulous keynote to kick off the Conference that is not to be missed, featuring the merging of sexual health with theatre, and a unique technological twist. Yes, live interaction with the audience will take place so be prepared for a never-before-seen performance by the youth from Buckworld One.
Buckworld is an electrifying Hip Hop Theatre performance that fuses Krump dancing with spoken word and other interactive elements in telling the story of their existence in and connection to the universe as well as each other.