• About
  • Background

• London
  • Interesting 2007
  • Interesting 2008
  • Interesting 2009
  • Interesting 2011
  • Interesting 2016
  • Interesting 2022

• Elsewhere
  • Interesting Gorge
  • Interesting Amsterdam
  • Interesting New York
  • Interesting Vancouver
  • Interesting North
  • Interesting Portland
  • Interesting South

• Other
  • Laptops and Looms
  • Laptops and Looms 2
  • PaperCamp 2

The Interesting Conferences started with this post in March 2007. I'd been inspired by TED but wanted to do something cheaper, closer to home and less, well, zealous. So, I booked the Conway Hall, asked some people to speak and hoped people would want to come. It seemed to go well.

We did it again in 2008 and 2009 but had a break in 2010. (We had PaperCamp 2 instead). Fortunately in that year the Boring folk started up, giving the world's journalists the chance to say that Interesting had been cancelled due to lack of interest. We did another one in 2011 - with a slightly different format.

We also managed to inspire other, similar, events around the world. I can't take much credit for those, they did them all themselves.

(Thanks to everyone for the pictures and videos. Let me know if you want anything removed.)