Last week I attended my second Northern Voice conference at the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia. I’ll be blogging a lot in the next few days about the sessions I attended; the lessons learned and a few posts inspired by some truly reflective moments that had while visiting Vancouver.

In it’s sixth year this edition of the Northern Voice organizing crew expanded this years offerings to two full days of sessions, featuring nearly 500 participants and two great keynote speakers. The second day featured Chris Messina Google’s Open Web Advocate. While largely responsible for creating the “hash tag” convention on Twitter and well-known for his instrumental role in promoting co-working, I was very much interested in his thoughts on the “camp” movement of unconferences.  Here is what he had to say:

Interview with Chris Messina at Northern Voice from Ian Capstick on Vimeo.