Daniel Brusilovsky

Speaking at CES 2010

The speaking engagements just keep coming! This time, I'm heading to Las Vegas to speak at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from January 7 through the 10th. CEA is the Consumer Electronics Association, the producer of the International CES. The 2010 International CES is one the largest consumer gadget and electric show. I attended in January 2009 for the first time with my business partner, Sam Levin. I'm really excited to be speaking with an amazing group of individuals who are both entertaining and well very smart. My session is called Emerging Tech: Hot or Not? I'll be speaking on Saturday, January 09, 2010 from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM. All my session information is below — hope you can make it!

IPTV, WiMAX, LTE, Android, OLED, OpenSocial, Windows 7, cloud computing, 4.0 mobile broadband: Which emerging technologies, product categories and standards show the most promise for widespread success, and which are overhyped? Prepare for a lively debate between proponents and skeptics with a focus on what will be big at the 2013 CES. Facility: LVCC, North Hall Room Number: N258 Moderator: Dylan Tweney, Senior Editor, Wired.com Panelists: Dr. Kevin Kahn, Senior Fellow, Intel Labs, Director, Communications Technology Lab, Intel Corporation Gary Koerper, Vice President of Engine Systems, Mobile Devices, Motorola Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurveston Kuk Yi, Corporate VP and Managing Partner, Best Buy Capital, Best Buy

Also, don't forgot that I'll be speaking at Macworld coming up in February 2010. Happy New Year everyone, and happy holidays!

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iMac Unboxing Photos

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New Posterous Theme

After a few days of work with Spencer Schoeben, we've taken a Tumblr theme, and ported it over to Posterous. What do you think? Hat tip to Metalab Design for the awesome Tumblr theme!

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New Setup

Got the 27" iMac plus a 24" display.

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Boarded on the plane. Next stop -- Rome, Italy!

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Speaking at Under 21 - Digital Natives in Rome, Italy!

Wow, where do I even begin. At this point, I think I’m at a loss for words. I recently got an email that landed in my spam folder, asking me to speak at a conference. More and more, I’ve been getting these types of emails (keep them coming!), but this email was different. It was an invitation to speak at a conference in Italy! It’s not everyday that you get an email from a major telecommunications company asking you to speak at their conference in Rome, Italy. Telecom Italia has invited me to participate at their upcoming event, Under 21 – Digital Natives on November 18 in Rome at Capitoline Museum. "Digital Natives" is a project on the future of innovation and digital culture designed and produced by Telecom Italia, Wired, Foundation Romaeuropa, and CATTID University La Sapienza. I’ll be speaking with a great group of young (well, under 21!) individuals, including; Salvatore Aranzulla, Jessica Brando, Marco De Rossi, Nicholas Greek, Andrea Lo Pumo, and Valerio Masotti. They will be live streaming this event, which you can find here. I’ll be staying in Italy from November 14, through the 21, mostly in Rome. If you are an Italian entrepreneur, lets get in touch — I would love to learn what your working on! Thanks to Telecom Italia for inviting me — I look forward to this great opportunity. Till then — ciao!

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Dear redundant old-media bigwigs: Meet your eventual replacement, a 16-year-old with gigs as a professional journalist for TechCrunch, a marketing evangelist for Qik and as CEO of his own startup. Also, he's been officially endorsed by Twitter.

A spot on the microblogging service's Suggested User List of accounts for new users has helped Daniel Brusilovsky reach just under 120,000 followers. He's also been officially "Verified" by Twitter Inc., lest someone impersonate the powerful 16-year-old. His influence at the microblogging startup apparently runs deep: he's meeting with Twitter's COO, right now.

At TechCrunch, he's a writer who dabbles in events and business development. He's also the young face of video-casting service Qik and CEO of his own TeensInTech.com. Oh, and he advises at least two other companies.

Brusilovsky's quick ascent contains lessons for the more aged and less accomplished:

Don't fit in? Perfect! Brusilovsky was "the only one who needed his parents to pick him up from" a tech conference last year, according to GigaOM. The intervening year has only brought more mainstream success, like joining TechCrunch in June and getting the Twitter stamp of approval.

Form a community of similar misfits. TeensInTech is a site for young people as terrifyingly ambitious and energetic as Brusilovsky. They're coming for us all. Soon.

"Don't give up." That one's from Brusilovsky. And we do not question Brusilovsky.

Let's just hope this promising kid finishes school and goes on to college. Just because Bill Gates, the founders of Google, the founders of Twitter and the founder of Oracle all dropped out of school doesn't mean it pays, kid.

(Pic by Andrew Mager)

Send an email to Ryan Tate, the author of this post, at ryan@gawker.com.