Conferences

Conferences

July 17, 2003

On
Saturday I will be heading to Singapore to participate
in the IBM Forum 2003. IBM
has invited strategic business decision makers and operational decision makers
such as the CIO and IT managers. I’ll be giving a talk there next week. Being on-line is critical but being in-person
at conferences is important too. In 1992
I went to the Agenda conference
for the first time and have not missed it since then. Conferences are a way
to keep in touch with industry colleagues and key industry trends. There are
many good conferences but the ones that I have attended regularly for more than
ten years include Agenda,
Demo, and PC
Forum. There have been many others that have provided great value including
Vortex
and Telecosm.
Sometimes I speak at these conferences; sometimes I just listen. One of the
newer conferences is Pop!Tech.
Every autumn, in the seaside village of Camden,
Maine, more than thirty of the world’s most intriguing visionaries, innovators,
leaders, scientists, intellectuals and artists come together to present their
views about the future.

Pop!Tech,
explores the impact of technology on our lives, our planet and our future. There
are some really big things going on which will impact all of us: changes in
global societies brought about by new communications technologies; new economic
models to follow the wreckage of the 90′s bubble; terrorism and warfare; the
unlocking of the human genome, the development of new energy sources; the ‘greying’
of our society as boomers retire; new art and entertainment forms. The list
goes on and on.

Pop!Tech
explores all of this and provides an opportunity to discuss the issues. The
organizers have offered a discounted conference fee for patrickWeb readers.
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