I’m so glad I came to this conference. It was almost a last time decision, but I can tell you now that I won’t loose one more.
The are 4 reasons for that.
Another year, another victory.
The 2012 gotoAndSki(); edition went as expected: awesome. Networking, fun, snow, friendship, geekness, talks, all of that was present in this great conference. Like in last year’s edition, everything went smoothly and we all ended up enjoying it.
Once again, congratulations to Fernando and David for putting up a different and great conference. I’m looking forward to be at gotoAndSki(); 2013! 
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It’s with an extreme honor that I’ll be in this years Flash Camp Portugal as a speaker.
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It’s with great pleasure that I announce that in January 2012 I’ll be at gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’); as a speaker 
After spending some amazing days in last year conference, like I told in this post, it was with great joy that I got Fernando invitation to present the “non-geek” talk of the event. I called the talk “Hello Ideas” and it will be like this:
To much has been said about UXLx for the last days. You just need to do a search on Twitter to see that. So what can I add? Nothing special, really… “Awesome”, “amazing”, “perfect”, “mind blowing” are not new adjectives to characterize the conference. They were used last year and abused on this one.
UXLx is the world’s User Experience and Interaction Design best conference. Simple as that. It’s a 3 days event where the first 2 are workshops and some short talks and the last day is where the big names talk.
I had the fortune to work as a Partner while at Active Media. Actually what you see in this photo was developed by me (and designed by a colleague). Working with Bruno, the head master behind UXLx, was nothing but great. Fast decision maker, know what he wants, a dream of a client…
I’l try to resume what the conference was to me with some quotes and thoughts of who I liked the most. So, let the game begin.
Let me to tell you a story.
nce upon a time, a little boy borned in Portugal. This happened in 1992 and their parents called him Ricardo. It still is his name.
One day, in 2010, Ricardo brings us SWITCH for the first time, a conference about “technology, science, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in a network-friendly environment”. In 2011, one year later, the second SWITCH happens with 28 speakers and more than 200 attendees. It was last weekend. I couldn’t make it to the first one, but this one me and some Active Media folks (also one of the sponsors) didn’t miss it.
You might be thinking now:
“Wait, but 1992… we’re in 2011… that means that Ricardo is 18 years old? And he organized the first conference with only 17? Yeah, right…”
Well, you better think twice. It’s true.
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What a blast! gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’); was simply the best conference I ever been. And I’m not exaggerating.
Right in the middle of the swiss alps, a bunch of geeks joined together for 3 days of pure inspiration, networking and, above all, friendship. If you want to get jealous, here are some great photos.
It was the first time I met Fernando (the organizer), and i can only say good things about him . Although he deserves all the props for having the will to organize almost alone the event, he had the magnificent help of David. Well done guys!
It was really simple. Spend the days in the middle of the slopes with all the guys and gals and at night hear the talks. Beers included.
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