Some Conferences Are Worth Attending Even in Bad Times
Layoff news day by day, major conferences are getting canned left and right. In lean times, the Conference-in-the-Cloud concept starts looking more and more attractive. Still, there’s no true substitute for real, live, face-to-face discussions and networking. Except it does not really happen at a lot of major conferences: session rooms are often deserted, there’s [...]
What’s a Web Conference Without the Web?
Le Web is Europe’s largest Web 2.0 conference, with 1,800 participants from all around the world coughing up $2K each to listen to sessions, mingle, and to demo their startups to their peers, media and VC’s. It’s considered a gathering of influencers, so much so, that 2 years ago then Presidential Candidate Nicolas Sarkozy found [...]
