Following a great Liftconference, today the team, board and speakers explored Geneva. It not only proved to be a good way to get to know the city better, but also sharing more insights on what we gathered during the last couple of days.

Meeting the person most often called 'the father of the Internet' was a great experience. Vint Cerf had lots to share and his insights were mindbogling. A truly great final for Lift09.

"Where did the future go?" is the central theme of Liftconference 09 in Geneva. Lift is a series of events built around a community of doers and thinkers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social consequences of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them. The full set of pictures will be appearing here.

A very interesting and inspirational workshop today with Magnum photographer Carl de Keyzer. These workshops give me input for a special event we are organizing on April 21.

Today I opened the new group for our V-Academy. Yet another 10 young students that we will give the opportunity to make their start and mark in cross media for example with KinkTV The full set of pictures is here

A great brainstorm weekend with artists, musicians, creatives, people from higher education and many more in Belgium. The event was organised by Guido Crolla from HAN, a true Dutch digital pioneer. the full picture set can be found here.

The IPAN meeting tonight was all about journalists and how they perceive the current developments in the TIME sector on the one hand and to their own business and profession on the other hand. I had the pleasure of moderating the panel of very experienced and leading tech and media journalists and we were happy that so many had gone through the bad weather to join us. Like some of the new Dutch digital pioneers who have made it to the book tonight.

A very interesting Mobile Monday. With lots of good speakers of which Nicolas Nova of Liftconference (as advisory board member and avid fan I will be attending of course) and Megaphone were the most inspiring. The full set of pictures can be found here.

A great day to go out shooting with the Twitter photographers in Amsterdam. @ikbendaf and @puur organised a great intro lecture on photography followed by shooting at the Chinese New Year celebrations. The full set can be found here...

A great Bowlr 09. The interactive industry working hard to get the year going and to make as many strikes as possible. I was there with two teams: IPAN and KinkFM. The full set can be found here

Back from a couple of wonderful days in Munich at DLD09 the media extravaganza and meeting of minds organized by the team of Burda. If you want to know what happened and what was discussed, go to the DLD website. My full set of pictures is here. One of the highlights was taking with Joi Ito about Freesouls in light of my Dutch digital pioneers book. Joi took most of his pictures for the book with his M8. The full set is available here at Flickr

It was a great happening tonight at the first get together of the DCIF investment committee meeting at IDG. Not only did we take the decision to make some further investments in Dutch digital start ups, we also met with all our portfolio companies and had updates from them and drinks together. A special place had the founders of Wakoopa, since the company exists exactly two years today. Happy Birthday to them! It was also the first time since my freak scooter accident last week that I took some pictures for the Dutch digital pioneers book I am working on. Not that easy I found with a broken collarbone...

I am always interested in different perspectives and therefore tonight's girlgeekdinner was definitely interesting. Frances Brazier shared some of her learning in the university world. The full set can be found here.

I am an avid fan of nice, beautiful and well crafted healthy etcetera... Therefore we have a make weekend, that started with a sushi workshop and will have drawings and cookies among others to follow,,,

Having been with the Obrecht church choir since 1971, Kees de Wijs had his farewell concert today, the full set is here

We enjoyed a terrific Christmas holiday, nothing fancy or special other than having a great time with friends...

It is always fascinating to see start ups working hard for their launches. The team behind Realmee.com is no exception and they are focusing hard to meet their dealines...

A fantastic afternoon at the Staatscircus with Oleg Popov in The Hague with the kids, the full set here, and if you want to see a great circus, you can go until early January.

Roderick got the inspiration for conducting from famous Israeli conductor Itay Talgam at Mastermundo. Now with WII music, there are no limits to free flowing classical music...

It is always great to visit our stations such as KinkFM. Yesterday we had new staff joining us and that is always a good moment to share what we are doing and meeting up with some of the DJ's....