History

A record of CyborgCamp events from 2010 to today.

Past CyborgCamps

2008
  • CyborgCamp Portland 2008: the first CyborgCamp, organized in Portland, OR.
  • Joe of Blaze Streaming Media gets his breakout start in real-time event livestreaming at CyborgCamp Portland 2008, going on to officially livestream SXSW and O'Reilly conferences.
  • Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham speaks at CyborgCamp 2008.
  • USB Drive designer Hideshi Hamaguchi speaks at CyborgCamp 2008.
  • Attending CyborgCamp Portland 2008 inspires EsoZone to become an unconference.
2009
  • Amber Case and Willow Bl00 meet in Seattle. Willow Bl00 begins organizing CyborgCamps in Seattle.
2010
  • CyborgCamp Portland 2010.
  • Nikolas Badminton and Kharis O'Connell attend CyborgCamp Portland and are inspired to run their own CyborgCamp in Vancouver, BC.
2011
  • Eric Boyd organizes CyborgCamp Toronto.
  • CyborgCamp Seattle 2011.
  • Cryptocurrency developer Kyle Drake gives his very first talk on Bitcoin at CyborgCamp Seattle 2011.
  • Mike Merrill speaks at CyborgCamp Seattle about community capitalism and being a publicly traded person — going on to be featured in The Atlantic, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal.
2012
  • CyborgCamp Portland 2012.
  • Klint Finley and Chris Dancy launch the Mindful Cyborgs podcast series after meeting at CyborgCamp 2012.
  • Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, is discovered at CyborgCamp Portland, and goes on to keynote stages around the world.
2013
  • CyborgCamp organized in Vancouver, BC by Nikolas Badminton and Kharis O'Connell.
2014
  • CyborgCamp becomes an officially sanctioned MIT Media Lab event.
2015
  • CyborgCamp takes some time off. Amber Case creates the Web 1.0 Conference instead, and runs it at Media Lab and in Portland, Oregon from 2015 to 2016.
2018
  • CyborgCamp returns with a mega-event at Pacific Northwest College of Art!
2022
  • CyborgCamp hits the East Coast with a twice a year conference series at a private home nestled with a view of the Adirondacks.
2023
  • CyborgCamp East.
2024
  • CyborgCamp East.
2026
  • CyborgCamp occured in Denver, Colorado at a friendly coworking space on a Sunny Saturday morning!