Entries Categorized as 'Events'
by Jeffrey Mann | November 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
Gartner’s big European event starts next week in Barcelona, a welcome change from Cannes, in my own opinion. Social is inevitably a hot topic, and I look forward to speaking with many customers over the four days of the conference. I will be doing two workshops (defining a social media strategy, and creating a SharePoint [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration europe Events social media social software symposium Tags: #gartnersym, Barcelona, social, social media, social software, symposium
by Jeffrey Mann | March 30, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I’m waiting for my flight home after seeing the 2011 Portals, Content and Collaboration summit come to a close in Los Angeles. We passed the venue on to our CRM colleagues, who will continue with Customer 360 event. These conferences are always as exhausting as they are stimulating, so please allow me some fairly random [...]
Category: collaboration PCC social software Tags: collaboration, content, los Angeles, portals, summits
by Jeffrey Mann | November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Symposium is usually an intense experience, and this year was no different. This year 3300 attended the event, a 21% increase over last year. It was the biggest EMEA Symposium in the last ten years. Close to 100 analysts did 200 presentations, almost 2200 1on1 meetings, and about 40 user roundtables. Personally, I did 26 [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration consumerization europe Events social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: conservative organizations, EMEA, social software, symposium. #gartnersym, Type C
by Jeffrey Mann | August 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week I did a Gartner webinar on trends in social software. These are fun to do, because I get to talk to lots of people at once rather than the one on one inquiries I usually do. They also generate a fair amount of discussion and comment on blogs, Twitter and in the media, [...]
Category: being an analyst Microsoft PCC symposium Tags: eweek, sharepoint, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
Thank you to those who sent good wishes. I feel like my 6 minute TED University lecture went pretty well. It was extremely intimidating though. The speakers before me included a report on scientists in the Antarctic drilling thousands of years into the past to get ice cores that help us understand climate change, an [...]
Category: TED Global Tags: stochastic, TED, TED Global, The 99
by Jeffrey Mann | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I arrived in Oxford, UK today for the TED Global conference have been looking forward to this specifically for almost a year, and generally since I first heard about from friends who went to one one of the first TED (technology, education, design) conferences organized by Richard Saul Wurman. The conference’s influence has grown enormously [...]
Category: being an analyst europe Events social software TED Global Tags: conferences, optimism, TED, TED Global
by Jeffrey Mann | December 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
It was a hectic, but fun and informative two days at entrepreneur Loic Lemeur’s LeWeb conference for high tech startups in Paris earlier this month. I was looking for exposure to new ideas and activities, and mostly achieve that. That’s me at the lower right of the picture. For those not there, Ustream has posted [...]
Category: Cloud europe Events Facebook Google LeWeb social software startup Vendors Tags: europe, Facebook, lemeur, leweb, venture capital, youtube
by Jeffrey Mann | December 10, 2009 | 7 Comments
The city of Paris was kind enough to sponsor a reception in the over-the-top beautiful reception halls at the Hotel de Ville as part of the LeWeb Internet startup conference last night. It was offered as part of the effort to support adding a .paris top level Internet domain for web sites related to all [...]
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by Jeffrey Mann | December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I am sitting in the audience, waiting for the LeWeb conference in Paris to start. I am more accustomed to being backstage, waiting to speak at conferences. Organizing and speaking at Gartner conferences has sort of ruined me as an attendee at most of these things. I get antsy after a few minutes of sitting. [...]
Category: Events startup technology Vendors Tags: europe, innovation, leweb, startups
by Jeffrey Mann | November 9, 2009 | 4 Comments
The time period after an intense conference like Symposium closes down is always a bit strange for analysts. We inhabit an isolated world with the delegates, revolving around presentations, workshops, 1 on 1 meetings, receptions, meals and (usually not enough) sleep. It’s the same for attendees, but there are a slew of people making sure [...]
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