The European Wine Bloggers Conference is back for the third time. We’ll gather in Vienna, Austria with a great program and 150 attendees to talk about “Freedom, Rights and Responsibilities”, or “Webinar and Web Communications”, “Creative Commons”, “Online Wine Commerce”,  “Publishing Platforms” and “Generics Reaching Out.”

I’ll be part of the panel on “Online Wine Commerce” with Rowan Gormley, CEO and founder of NakedWines.com and Andre Ribeirinho, CEO and Founder of adegga.com. We’ll discuss on various issues related to the growing number and influence of bloggers and one line wine lovers. What doe sthis mean for how we create and use content? What does it mean for the wine business? What new opportunities are there for wine retailers and consumers?

See you in Vienna!

AMOOCON, a VoIP and technical conference that began in 2008, will features 54 talks and workshops by 38 different speakers. AMOOCON is inaugurating a new feature this year: a wine tasting!

Randy convinced author and conference organizer Stefan Wintermeyer to add the idea to this annual event held in Rostock, Germany June 3-5th this year based on the fact that last year he found many speakers and attendees were interested in wine. Because people are coming to the conference from many countries including several from Europe, the United States and Israel, they are each being asked to bring a bottle of their region’s wine if possible. They can also bring cheese if they prefer.

Randy will be speaking there again this year about the VoIP Users Conference and its activities on social networks and in podcasting.  Speakers at AMOOCON  come from different backgrounds resulting in a much more diverse program than a typical technical gathering.

The IPAM Marketing School in Porto, Portugal, kindly invited me to be a speaker at their conference on Wine Marketing on April 28-29. I’ll speak on “New technologies and Innovation, success strategies for wine brands”.  It will give the opportunity to visit some Douro wineries and visit the port wineries in Porto. I look forward to the event.

March 24, 2010 – Paris, American Wines Tasting

Evelyne Resnick will attend the Paris American Wines Tasting. On the agenda, a special guest: Zinfandel, her favorite California variety.