BarCamp’s Sarasota-Bradenton Spring Conference (ABC 7 My Suncoast)

BRADENTON, Fla. — The BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton Spring 2013 Conference event is being held at the Manatee Technical Institute’s new campus today, Saturday, May 4th, 2013.

The BarCamp conference is one day of Riverwalk 2013 – a 4-day destination event with many activities including a green technology expo and music festival on Sunday.

There will be speakers and sessions, roundtables and workshops, open-space conversations, and wrap-up parties.

The agenda will be posted on a large screen at the site and they promise to have a mobile web application with the real-time agenda available.

Watch their future events list at the Ning community or Meetup site for evening socials, Lunch and Learns, and other community-building activities.

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