The Chicago PhizzPop Tour, November 20th

Note, this post has been edited on November 15th, 2008.

We’ll be hosting another PhizzPop Tour in Chicago this year. You can sign up here. This year’s tour has a twist in that we’re doing it with the partnership with a few important groups. Which are:

Ogilvy Interactive, which is currently contributing services to the Chicago 2016 committee, the group that supports Chicago 2016 Olympic bid (Learn more at chicago2016.org). Ogilvy has helped define the design challenge this year and it will be focused on developing strategies to help Chicago land the Olympics in 2016.

 

We’re hosting this event with The Chicago Convergence, an 1800 member grassroots organization dedicated to turning Chicago into the new media capital of the world.

What is the challenge?

PhizzPop Design Challenge was created by Microsoft to bring together top designers and developers from select agencies around the country to compete in an adrenaline charged three-day competition of design innovation, development, and creativity to solve a unique design challenge. This year PhizzPop is visiting seven cities in search of the best design talent in America. The tour kicked off its first event in New York City, and excitement continues to build for the next stop on the tour: Chicago, November 20, 2008.

How does the challenge work?

PhizzPop Design Challenge was created by Microsoft to bring together top designers and developers from select agencies around the country to compete in an adrenaline charged three-day competition of design innovation, development, and creativity to solve a unique design challenge. This year PhizzPop is visiting seven cities in search of the best design talent in America. The tour kicked off its first event in New York City, and excitement continues to build for the next stop on the tour: Chicago, November 20, 2008.

Who are the contestants?

Contestants are designers and developers from the top agencies in each region. Regional winners will earn acclaim and roundtrip airfare to the national competition held at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas March 15-17, 2009.

For Chicago currently announced participants include:

Manifest Digital – www.manifestdigital.com/

Quilogy – www.quilogy.com/

Roundarch – www.roundarch.com/

Tanagram – www.tanagrampartners.com/

Who are the judges?

Current judges announced for the event include Kevin Flatt, Executive Creative Director at DDB Tribal, David Armano, VP and Creative Director at Critical Mass and founder of the blog Logic + Emotion and Jeff Smith, CEO and founder of Clarity Consulting (And last year’s Chicago PhizzPop winner)

How do I sign up?

Go to www.phizzpop.com and register for the Chicago event.