One of my favourite European ‘crossmedia’ Festivals PICNIC ‘09 is only 2-days away now. The conference and festival takes place in Amsterdam from 23 to 25 September 2009 in a unique location, the Westergasfabriek, a former gasworks fabric.

PICNIC is Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas & knowledge of the world’s best creators & innovators.

This year PICNIC has programmed a lot more mobile related stuff

On Thursday September 24 at 13H I will introduce a short but sweet PICNIC Mobile Bites. Five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile will be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each. The companies – selected through dotopen.com – include:

aka-aki networks GmbH (Germany)

Ball-IT (Finland)

Orbster (Germany)

RjDj (UK)

Soundwalk (USA/France)

Come and check it out and let us know you’re coming – hit the Count me in button.

On Friday, I’m chairing the jury for the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards, a real challenge this year since the quality of the startups is very good this year!

Besides the great conference program and speakers, I’m also looking forward to the The City as an Interaction Platform session with Atau Tanaka, Adam Greenfield and Greg Skibiski. Also interesting is the session about Mobile Engagement with Katrin Verclas from Mobile Active. And our friends at Layar are participating to the one-day Augmented City Lab. Not to be missed!

I’m definately looking forward to meet old and make some new friends, this is going to be fun! Feel free to ping me on twitter if you’d like to get in touch.