We’ve been quite silent on this channel this time around, but felt we ought to tell you all a bit more on the process of Copenhagen Twestival 2010.

It’s the third time we’re doing this event, and both Kristoffer and I are very happy to say that we are getting a lot of help now. Big round of applause for @wendelboe, @laurajul, @jacobpackert, @ronnilab and @mortensax for helping out.

We started doing this for fun and gags, but it’s turned out to be a bigger and bigger event every time; now I don’t know half the people buying tickets, and that’s a great sign. It means Twestival is getting bigger than just the regular event attendees of Copenhagen (and more money for our cause).

We started at Republikken, moved to the slightly bigger venue at FDF Rysensteen, and now we’ve moved to the large foyer of Pumpehuset. This means we’ll have room for 300 people with a real scene and a real bar.

The sponsorships also keep growing; first time around we could hardly find anybody who wanted to give 2500,- DKK. Now people are buying sponsorships without even wanting to have their logo on the website - they just like the event and the cause that much. It means a lot to us that companies, people and organizations around Copenhagen and Denmark in general are willing to support us with money, gifts for the lottery and help in every way they can.

The list is long already, but we want to take a moment to thank these sponsors on everything they’ve done for us so far:

Umbraco, Sony Ericsson, Pumpehuset, Sony, Wasabi, Adult Swim, Vodafone, Hummel, Vizeum, Jakob Nilsson, Halbye Kaag, RE:, Discowax, Overskrift.dk, Nykredit, Wemind, Signal Digital, KIMS, Wibroe, Duckert & Partners, Den Collinske Gaard, The Storm, Ølfrabrikken, Fitness World, Yespr, Berlingske Tidende and 23.

We still have room for lots and lots of sponsors, so if you have anything to bring for the lottery or want to support Concern with hard cash, don’t hesitate to get in touch and we’ll see where it brings us.

As far as the program goes, we’re still working hard on getting you the best talk and music we can find. We’ll hopefully announce something very soon, so look out on Twitter, cphtwestival.com and this blog.

And don’t forget to buy your tickets now - they running fast…

We have finally finished calculating and resting after an absolutely amazing night on Thursday. Just like last time, we were completely blown away by how it all turned out, despite problems planning the night and what else had gone wrong in the week leading up to the event.

Pictures
You can find lots of pictures on Flickr already, but I’m sure more people have some left on their phones and cameras, so upload them and tag them “cphtwestival” like some people have already done. Go have a look - there are some really amazing shots of speakers, cake and people having a good time.

Sponsors
Once again, we’d like to thank all of the sponsors as well. Without you it wouldn’t have been such a successful night, and we’re very grateful for that.

So, thank you to: zyb for the cake, 23 for the venue, Verk for the beer; Polar Rose, Syntese Mediabuying, Hoist, Webcom, Umbraco, RE: and DONA for the cash donations; Lokus.dk, SF Film, Klub Empire, ManuVision, Wemind and Podshoppen for the gifts to the lottery.

Speakers
Also, we’d like to thank Mike Michalowicz for speaking and giving away three signed copies of his book. We really appreciate you’d come talk for us.

Seeing that we couldn’t get the real one, we managed to snap Fake Morten Lund aka. Nikolaj Nyholm. We had a great time listening to the development of Polar Rose, but we particularly loved the @ML Tweet Transformer (where credit also goes out to @mortenjust, @claus and @dalager). Thanks for stepping in at the last possible moment.

The biggest surprise of the evening, however, was the mini-concert by The Storm. In the days leading up Twestival, people that weren’t exactly fans said some not so nice things about the music, but we think in the end Pernille and Johan turned everybody into believers in The Storm.

Just listen for yourself if you’re still not convinced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6Be0Ewffw

Key figures
Lastly, we have the key figures.

23 days was all it took to arrange this edition of Copenhagen Twestival

158 people bought tickets (and about 150 showed up)

13000 kr. was the original price for venue and soundsystem (and we ended up paying 1500 kr. for the location because of the sudden change - the heat wasn’t that bad now, was it?)

22010 kr. in total in sponsorships

11237 kr. was the total revenue in the bar

8069.5 kr. profit from the bar

30,079.5 kr. profit in total that will go directly to the Child Cancer Foundation.

Final remarks
All the is left to say is “thank you”. Thank you for coming, thank you for drinking beers and buying lottery tickets and thank you for supporting the cause. We’ll keep you updated in the coming months…

(This is a copy of the email sent out to those who have bought a ticket on Amiando or said they’ll attend on Facebook.)

Hello people,

Copenhagen Twestival is less than 10 hours away now, and here’s a few things we’d like to inform you about.

Money
It is not possible to use your credit card in the bar tonight. There’s lots of banks nearby, but please bring enough cash to get both beer and lottery tickets - there’s a lot of prizes, and we’d love for you to win as much as possible.

WiFi
There will be WiFi at the event, but to ensure that everybody can get online just bring your cellphone - most of you have iPhones, so there’s no need to bring a laptop anyway.

Cameras
We want this event to be “sufficiently documented”, so bring along your Canons, Nikons, Flips and what else you have that can record the evening.

Other than these few points, there’s nothing else to say than we hope you have a great night and thank you for spending the evening with fellow members of the Twitterati while still helping those less fortunate than yourself.

See you tonight!

Cheers,
Kristoffer and Mark.

Ps. Bring a friend as well - we still have more tickets on sale and you can bring 40 kr. for the tickets and buy one at the location of the event.

We have a bit of somewhat sad news that we are trying to give a positive ending here:

The last lead we had for a great additional speaker just broke down. We now have a slot of 30-45 minutes open, and this is where we need some help from you guys.

Who else would you like to see speak at Copenhagen Twestival? We are very open for suggestions and will follow (almost) any idea you give us to make sure that everybody have a great night, and go home with even more than just a buzz and a phone number for that sweet guy or gal you follow on Twitter, but never dared to talk to.

Send us a tweet, write a comment or ship off an email to mark @ marks . dk.

Today we are announcing the first parts of the program for Thursday night.

Via the fantastic Lori Webb we got an offer that was way too good to turn down: The keynote speaker for Iværk & Vækst 09, Mike Michalowicz will also be speaking at Copenhagen Twestival. He’s an interesting character with great entrepreneurial efforts on his resumé already. You can read much more about him on Wikipedia and watch clips of his appearances on YouTube. He has also donated a signed copy of his groundbreaking book “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur” which will be a prize for you to win in the lottery.

Moreover, Lori Webb has also donated two tickets for the event “Good Ideas in Entrepreneurship” which will be held on Tuesday, September 15 at The Danish National Museum. We’re very glad she has agreed to help us with these things and if you don’t win the two tickets, you’ll still be able to get at ticket at the discounted price of 100,- kr. (regular price is 175,-) via this link: http://giscopenhagen.eventbrite.com/?discount=TWESTIVAL.

Lastly, we are very proud to announce that Danish band The Storm has agreed on playing a couple of acoustic songs from their new album. You should check out their new single on MySpace and follow the band as well as the lead singer Pernille Rosendahl on Twitter.

We’ll reveal much more as we get even closer to Thursday evening, but until then, don’t forget to buy your ticket at amiando.com/cphtwestival.

Trust us when we say we have been looking forward to writing this blog post all day, because we have a lot of news for you.

This morning at 8 o’clock we were told that we couldn’t use Ny Tap as a venue for Copenhagen Twestival after all. Carlsberg didn’t like the idea of people having beer on their grounds on a Thursday (yeah, it does sound crazy to us too), so our Monday morning started out with not having a venue at all.

After lots and lots of phone calls (+ an intense work effort from the impeccable @wendelboe), we now have a new venue: The FDF-scouts have been so kind to let us have their hall in Rysensteensgade for the event. In other words we couldn’t have beer on the brewery’s property, but the scouts had no problems with us having a beer and enjoying a great night. Obviously this night is not about heavy drinking, but we’d love for our guests to be able to have a beer and a laugh, and now that’s possible.

The full address is FDF, Rysensteensgade 3, 1564 København K - much closer to the city as well (it’s right by Rådhuspladsen/Town Hall Square), and we think it might even be slightly better than the original venue.

Moreover, besides our venue being cancelled, we also got a lot of new sponsorships today. The lovely guys in Hoist as well as RE: and Syntese Mediabuying have all agreed to make cash donations that we can pass on to Child Cancer Foundation. We’re very happy they are helping us out and you should all applaud them - it’s because of their commitment we will have a great night.

The lottery is also being filled with even more prizes - Manuvision will sponsor three gift cards for massages and Empire Bio is sponsoring two one-year memberships of Klub Empire.

We have also heard a few people ask about the program for the night, and we can’t tell you exactly who’s coming just yet - the final preparations are currently being made, but we’ll hopefully get to hear the exciting story of one of Denmark’s most adventurous entrepreneurs. More on that very very soon.

For now, there’s not much left to do but ask you to tell your friends about Copenhagen Twestival - there’s still a few tickets left at 25 kr., so share the love on Facebook, Twitter and where ever you might talk to your friends. This can’t be done without your help as well!

Take care, and we have more to tell soon… Until then, remember to buy your tickets here: amiando.com/cphtwestival

Hello all.

Once again, we have exciting news for you all: Sponsorships are rolling in and we’ll take a brief moment to thank all of those who are making this event happen:

The venue is sponsored by 23 - the visual sharing company. It’s because of their involvement in this event that we have a roof over our head on Thursday. Huge thanks goes out to the whole team! Remember to check out their latest project: 23Video.

Next up on the list of essentials is something to drink. Verk has been so kind as to sponsor our beers so we can give as much money as possible to the Child Cancer Foundation. That way you can get wasted for a good cause - what’s not to like?

No Twestival without cake! In February, we had a legendary cake and this time is no different: zyb has once again teamed up with Copenhagen Twestival to deliver a cake as good as last time. This is worth the VIP-ticket in itself!

Other notable sponsors include DONA that have agreed to cover some of the practical things needed for the venue to make it look like more than an empty concrete box. Also, we are currently trying to cover the invoice for sound- and technical equipment on the night - so far Webcom (with the upcoming Twitter book “Twitterbogen“) and Polar Rose have both taken a share of the load, but we need more, so if you want to sponsor something, this is where help is most needed.

Moreover, we will have a lottery again, and so far we have received gifts from Karin Høegh in the form of Pokens and SF Film that sent us a box of movies and tickets for some of the movies currently running in cinemas across the country. We are looking into the possibility of getting many more prizes for you all, so stay tuned.

Last, but definitely not least, we have our very first celebrity endorsement of Copenhagen Twestival! Andrew Keen was kind enough to sit down for a brief talk on Skype about why he loves Twestivals so much and why everyone should come out for their local Twestival this upcoming week. Have a look and have a great Sunday!

Andrew Keen on Copenhagen Twestival

UPDATE, 7/9: The location has been changed: http://copenhagen.twestival.com/2009/09/07/new-location-and-new-sponsors/

This is where the September 2009-edition of Copenhagen Twestival will be held:

It’s taken quite some time to find the perfect location for this year’s Twestival (maybe even too long), but we feel that this is the perfect place for the event. It’s bigger than last time with room for 300 guests and with a lovely, rough feel to it:

Having such a place also calls for a bit more planning (read: money), but remembering the support we had the last time, we’re confident that everything will work out fine. If your company/employer is interested in sponsoring the event, don’t hesitate contacting us - we need all the help we can get. The same goes for volunteers; the more, the merrier, and we’ll maybe even give you a beer or soda for the trouble. How about that for a treat?

Now we have more planning to do, but we’re definitely getting more and more excited about throwing a great event for all of you again. Especially exciting is how we are able to help a bunch of great kids have a better day by having a great night ourselves. Everybody wins!

In the next couple of days we’ll announce even more great stuff, so keep up to date by following @cphtwestival or subscribe to the feed for this blog.

We have some very exciting news for you today.

The Copenhagen edition of Twestival Local is coming together slowly, but nicely. Today we want to share with you two things - the date for the event and the cause that we will support.

First, a note, though. Last time we managed to pull everything together in 23 days. This year, incidentally, we are doing the same thing. Obviously we are better prepared this time (in the sense that we know how to approach the task), but we still need a lot of help from you guys. If the company where you work (or which you own) wants to support Copenhagen Twestival, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’ll be happy to tell you more about how to support the event.

Then some announcements:

The Copenhagen Twestival event is being held at September 10, 2009. We had the opportunity to place it in the timeframe from September 10-12, but we feel that going out to an event like this on a Thursday is much better than trying to pull something together on a Friday or Saturday. The time will be the same as last year - from 19 to 23(ish). This way everybody can have some dinner and come out for a few beers and good company afterwards.

Moreover, we are also proud to announce that the Child Cancer Foundation (Børnecancerfonden) has agreed to team up with us on this great event. A small presentation on the work the Foundation is doing:

The purpose of the Child Cancer Foundation is to increase the information about cancer in children, to strengthen research in methods of treatment and to improve the conditions for these children.

In Denmark, 150 children each year are diagnosed with cancer. 30 years ago almost every child died. Today three out of four children are cured. Our goal is to cure every child with cancer. In order to reach this goal we need funds to strengthen the ongoing research and to educate qualified specialists in childhood cancer. Furthermore we need money to help the families by giving the children memorable moments to help them sustain a difficult time with treatments and hospitalisation.

The Child Cancer Foundation is solely based on donations and voluntary gifts from private individuals, other foundations, companies and associations. We need all the help, we can get.

Obviously we are very excited about this, and we hope to get at least the same amount of people to attend this year as last, but our goals and strategies will be further elaborated at a later point. The important part for you is to mark your calendars and empty the piggybanks so we can give a lot of money for this great cause.

That’s all for now - hope to give more announcements in the following days…

50: The number of people we figured wanted to show up for a Copenhagen version of Twestival.

75: The number of people we set as a goal for Copenhagen Twestival. If that was reached, we would dance around with our arms in the air.

120: The number of people that actually showed up. Needless to say, we are blown away by the support you have shown us.

360: The number of beers available. 30 was left at the end of the night.

500: The number of available lottery tickets. 0 was left.

1500: The price of the cake.

5500: The amount of money our sponsors donated directly to charity:water.

8000: The price companies usually pay for renting RUMMET. We paid 0.

15000: The total amount of money we managed to raise and will send off to charity:water.

As you might gather from the numbers above, we regard this as a success and we thank each and every one of you for coming out and participating in a type of event that Copenhagen definitely needed. We hope something similar will be an integral part of the Danish tech scene, since we had so much fun and believe you had too.

You can find tons of tweets, pictures and blogposts about the event, and if you have any videos, please don’t hesitate to send them to Mark so we can give you some link love. We have some videos on the way for you as well - look out for this space.

The only thing left to say is “thank you” for a great night and we hope to see all of you soon again.