I was so keen to experience iRedes, the Ibero-American Social Networks Congress, first-hand.
It’s certainly much more than its title promises: its organisers go to great lengths to put on a congress with a packed agenda of talks, presentations, workshops and plenty of good moments for some proper networking. Here’s the excellent team that makes it happen and keeps it moving. This year I went thanks to an invitation from Leandro Perez Miguel and Alvaro Varona.
Two days that leave you wanting more, even though the programme is very full, but the speakers are so good that you’re left hungry for more: not a single talk or round table is to be missed. I’d highlight the latter, the round tables with top names giving a very broad view of the topics they cover, such as “Memes, virals and people” with friends and stars such as Pablo Herreros, Delia Rodríguez, Arnaud Roy and Millán Berzosa. On the second day they were on “Content creation on YouTube” and “Social networks as second screens”, where I finally got to meet Ignacio Escolar of eldiario.es in person.
The new feature this 2014 was the workshops, and once again the dilemma of which one to choose, as I liked several of them. Entrepreneurship on the Internet with Javier Arquelladas, director of Punto Extra, and Pascual Drake, creator of Enolobox. Effective communication on social networks with Mario Tascón, Estrella Montolío, Professor of Spanish Language at the Universitat de Barcelona, and Judith González, head of the Fundéu BBVA style guide. Another very interesting one was Photography on social networks with Philippe González, founder of Instagramers, but the one that apparently stole the show was Content creation on YouTube with the YouTubers aLexBY11 and Wismichu, who drew a large crowd of fans at the exit.
The extras of the iRedes Congress: enjoying a fantastic city like Burgos (the sun shone on both days) and the nightworking (night-time networking), both at Thursday’s cocktail/dinner and on the night out until the early hours, starting at “La Pécora” – the name says it all 😉
But rather than telling you everything, have a look at their videos and sign up for next year; I certainly won’t miss it.
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