He also worked as a CTO for hire in Silicon Valley in 2000-2001, where he was a senior consultant to several dot-com startups. He’s a frequent speaker at technology events and has been blogging since 2000. You can read his thoughts at http://afroginthevalley.com.

Here is the first outline for my presentation at Podcamp Montréal this Saturday…

The future is always too far / 10 tech trends you have to know about… and 10 ways to get them in your daily routine :

• The atomization of content (Atom, RSS, microblogging) – small pieces loosely joined
• Distributed platforms (Tumblr, Friendfeed, Praized)
• Semantic and meta-data, machine tags (qrcode, microformats)
• GeoEverything / Location as a filter
• SocialGraph / Friends as a filter
• Identity follows you (OpenID, OAuth)
• Data portability
• Virtualization of infrastructure
• Mobile is the new desktop
• Open source code, open data, APIs are the new black – Open Hardware
• Creative Commons and the new rights (or wrongs)
• The messaging web (back to roots!)
• Aggregation and mashups, exponential
• The global village and trust your tribes

It’s more than 10 for now, I will probably mix some together… Stay tuned!

Sylvain’s session is schedule on Satuday morning at 9:00.