These five motion charts are part of a feature presentation by Horace Dediu at Airshow San Francisco, to take place on June 11th. Attendees will see the presentation and then learn how to present persuasively with data. Register now before it’s too late.

We've also added Airshow San Francisco on June 11, 2016, (Sat before WWDC.)

See http://airshow.io/2016/boston/ for more information. 

We will be making the official announcement shortly. Register early to receive a 30% discount. 

We will debut the all new Airshow 2.0 event in early November in California and follow with Boston and New York this winter. We will also be taking the show on the road as Horace's travel allows. 

More information coming soon to Airshow.io.

See Airshow Boston webpage for more info.

 → Learn more about Airshow Seattle

 → Register for Airshow Seattle

→ Register with academic discount as a student or teacher. 

After much practice, and a custom-built engine, were ready to take Airshow on the road. If only we could find some runways around the world...

Enter Paul Brody, an IBM global industry leader. An early believer in our cause, he facilitated IBM offices around the world as venues for Airshow. This was a tall order at any company, let alone one with nearly half a million employees.

It was a crazy plan and it worked.

Tomorrow, we will conduct the 10th Airshow in Tokyo—our debut in Asia. We still have much to learn, but this much we know: Airshow would not have gotten off the ground without the generosity of Paul and his amazing team.

Given his superpowers (including his iPad WPM), and the recently announced Apple+IBM partnership, we were not too surprised to learn about Paul's new leadership role at IBM Mobility. We wish him well in his new position at IBM! 

It is our true honor to count Paul Brody as our sponsor and our friend. 

—The Airshow Crew

To celebrate, we are opening Airshow Tokyo to anyone who: 
(a) works for IBM
(b) works for Apple or
(c) is an IBM customer.

Register here.
Fine print: Company identification required. Registrations limited. First come, First serve.

 → Learn more about Airshow Tokyo.

 → Register for Airshow Tokyo (Seating Limited)

And we've found a very nice one: UBC Robson Square. A short stroll from downtown Vancouver, Robson Square is also conveniently located near the Airport and rails. 

See Airshow Vancouver page for more info. 

Today is the last day for anyone who was planning to register for Airshow Vancouver to register as a backer ($600 USD) a 40% saving off the full ticket price of $1000. 

Airshow World Tour for March 26, 2014 Rankings (as of Feb 16, 2014)

1. Vancouver
2. Sydney / Seattle / Austin
3. Zurich / Tokyo / Amsterdam
4. Stockholm

5. Singapore / Raleigh

Write-in Cities:

• Toronto / New York / Prague

Coming Up - Feb 26, 2014

• London

To learn how to apply these techniques to your presentation join us at Airshow San Jose on Jan 30, 2014. 

Airshow World Tour, rankings for March 26, 2014, as of 8:30pm ET, 19 Jan 2014:

1. Vancouver
2. Raleigh/Austin↑
3. Seattle
4. Sydney↑
5. Zurich/Tokyo/Amsterdam
6. Stockholm

→ Register for Airshow London (50% discount).
→ Learn more about Airshow.

Airshow San Jose, January 30, 2014

Airshow San Jose is still open for registration, but seating is limited. Register.

The Next Airshow, Wed March 26, 2014

1. Vancouver
2. Raleigh
3. Austin↑
4. Seattle
5. Zurich/Tokyo/Amsterdam↑
6. Sydney/Stockholm

Vancouver has pulled ahead of Raleigh to firmly secure a No. 2 spot. Austin has pulled ahead of Seattle. London still in the lead & close to quorum. Here are the rankings: 

1. London
2. Vancouver↑
3. Raleigh
4. Austin↑
5. Seattle
6. Zurich/Tokyo
7. Sydney/Stockholm/Amsterdam↑

Also in the running: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, São Paulo.

New York has joined Prague as a write-in candidate.

Jan 30 - Airshow San Jose

Airshow San Jose has now reached quorum., so we have announced further information including location and time.

Bring Airshow to your City

All you need is 20 registrants to reach quorum. You can choose from the cities in the list, or even write-in your city. Register here. 

We have now entered a 24-hour grace period to cover those who were in the process of registering for the event. During this period, tickets will be on sale at the early registration rates.

At 6:06pm tomorrow (1/10/2014) San Jose-local time, early registration discounts will be removed.

→ Register for Airshow San Jose (50% discount)

→ Learn more about Airshow.

[Update: Grace period has now expired, but limited seats remain.]

Feb 26 - World Tour Ranking Update

1. London
2. Raleigh
3. Vancouver
4. Austin/Seattle
5. Zurich/Tokyo↑
6. Sydney/Stockholm↑

Also in the running: Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, São Paulo, Prague.

Once a quorum is reached for a city, we will continue the early registration discount for a grace period of 24 hours. This is to provide a final chance for registrants in mid-process to complete their registration, and backers of other cities to change their allegiances. After the one-day grace period, the 50% early registration discount is removed, and tickets for that city are sold at full price.

In the meanwhile, we will work with our venue sponsors to lock in the specific venue to announce.

World Tour Ranking as of 4:20pm ET 8/Jan/2014

1. London
2. Raleigh
3. Vancouver
4. Austin/Seattle
5. Zurich
6. Sydney/Stockholm

Also in the running: Tokyo, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, São Paulo, Prague.

Airshow San Jose, 30 January 2014

A few tickets remain for silicon valley, so if you are plan to attend Airshow San Jose, Jan 30, 2014, now is the time to register.

[Update Jan 08 7:34pm ET: Fixed problem with the rankings. Thanks to @XianNewman for pointing out the problem.]

Jan 30 Airshow
San Jose is a few backers away before reaching quorum. 

Feb 26 Airshow
London continues to lead and is near quorum. Raleigh has maintained its second place in the rankings, despite recent advances by Vancouver, Austin, and Seattle. The top five rankings are:

1. London
2. Raleigh
3. Vancouver
4. Austin
5. Seattle

However, Zurich, Sydney, Tokyo, Stockholm, São Paulo, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong are also in the race.  

Prague was also the first city to start a write-in campaign. 

For more information about Airshow World Tour, check out airshow.asymco.com.

Despite all this, the first day went very well... What a relief! We had of course thought all this through but you never know what happens when you unleash a new idea in the real world. A lot of pieces had to be in place for this to work: reasoning about the jobs to be done of Airshow events, defining a crowdfunding scheme that is balanced, predictable, and simple, applying Occam's Razor to it, finding fewest words to explain the concept, working with IBM's reservation system for their world-wide venues, implementing the scheme on top of the ticketing system, designing tickets so that early backers can be rewarded, and so on.

And so far so good: most folks "got" the idea and our ticketing system tito performed admirably despite the number of tickets we had created. (A few administrative glitches, typos and explanation issues were detected by the masses and overcome quickly. We even got covered by Fortune/CNN tech blog!) 

As with all new experiments, we know we will meet some challenges. We look forward to facing these as we "learn by doing", just like we have done in the past two years. Most of all we appreciate the support, input & suggestions of our audience.

Thank you all for your participation. Looking forward to meeting you in person at an Airshow near you.

P.S., The coolest part about real-life is that it's so hard to predict. We still have no idea how this will turn out. There is only one way to find out. Stay tuned!