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How fast is the business of augmented reality emerging? Augmented Reality Event (ARE2010), June 2nd and 3rd in Santa Clara, Calif., will be the place to find out.

Over 40 AR companies from all over the world are coming. There will be presentations from 80-plus augmented reality experts, and keynotes from luminaries Bruce Sterling, Will Wright, Jesse Schell and Blaise Aguera y Arcas. And current AR titans Total Immersion and Metaio will demonstrate that AR is not just a vision, but already drives significant businesses today!

Augmented reality industry startups will be strutting their stuff in a Launchpad competition with a handsome $10,000 for the winner.

There are two days, three tracks, all filled with art, magic, competition and awards. See a sneak preview of the schedule.

ARE2010 has drawn together all the key players from startups to giants in the industry, with speakers from Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Intel and Nvidia.

Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, is the featured sponsor, and Zenitum, a leading augmented reality company, is the gold sponsor. Ogmento and ARWave are silver sponsors.

Attendees will have the opportunity to see what’s coming next, including AR eyewear, and how AR is gaining strength in several key markets.

ARE2010 is a unique opportunity to see how the complete vision of AR is emerging in an energetic technology convergence. It’s a must-attend event if you want to learn more about, or be part of, the business of AR.

Companies will learn how to leverage AR to advance their brand and attract and keep customers engaged, as well as best practices for how to build successful AR campaigns and products that will delight their users.

GigaOM readers can register with GIGA245 to get $50 for this 2-day event.

The Mobile Meets Entertainment Summit is a one-day conference focused on the emerging market opportunities for mobile content producers, aggregators and application developers. Mobile entertainment content is beginning to influence the development of social networks and media sites, as well how content is consumed and shared. The conference will bring together leaders from the entertainment, media and mobile spaces to share insights into the convergence and growth opportunities of this dynamic industry.

The MME Summit will feature a combination of power panels featuring executives from top entertainment companies, service providers, mobile device manufacturers and developers in the market today. We hope you can join us for the day and contribute to the conversation.

Register here and get $100 off by simply entering the following discount code: MME2010GIG

• MME 2010
• May 12, 2010
• St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco

• Date: April 19, 2010
• Location: New York City

The rise of the real-time, social web has become one of the critical factors in this new century, along with a radically changed global economic climate, an accelerating need for sustainable business practices and a political context demanding increased openness in business. These issues cannot be dealt with one by one, but instead must be approached as connected elements of a new world order for business. Social Business Edge is designed to address these issues, and to bring together a community of visionaries, practitioners and tool makers to collectively explore what form the social business — and our aspirations to design it — will take. Speakers include Stowe Boyd, John Hagel III, Diane Hessan, Baratunde Thurston, Juliette Powell and Jamais Cascio.

For more information: http://www.edgewards.com/sbe

This Sunday, April 11th, watch the best and brightest stars of web television, top Hollywood talent, decision makers, and influencers shaping online entertainment come together to celebrate web TV and find out who will take home the 2010 Streamy Awards!

Streamed live from the red carpet ceremony at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles, the Streamy Awards is the first and most prestigious awards ceremony devoted to honoring excellence in web television. The Streamy Awards Show will present awards for achievements in categories spanning multiple disciplines of web television and feature entertainment acts from some of the Internet’s most-watched performers.

Tune into www.streamys.org at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 11, to catch all the live-streamed action. The Awards Ceremony will be proceeded by a live Red Carpet pre-show starting at 4:00 p.m. PST/7:00 p.m. ET.

The Emerging Communications Conference & Awards (eComm) is focused on What’s Next in Telecom, Mobile & Internet Communications™. It’s designed to accelerate communications technology and business model innovation.

Participants attend to be exposed to the latest technologies, research, companies, trends and opportunities across the telecom, mobile and Internet communications space.

The 3rd American edition will be held April 19-21 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Day three is being dedicated to mobile augmented reality, and as such will be the world’s first and largest commercial augmented reality event.

Register today at http://america.eComm.ec and use the discount code “GigaOm” to get 10 percent off.