Conferences Are Clearly Alive

With nearly 200 people in the room here in London for the Telco 2.0 conference it clearly shows me that conference are alive.

Coming roughly a month after eComm, Telco 2.0 is the big company perspective of what's changing, while eComm was all about the emerging start-ups. The two events are outstanding book-end to the smack in the middle VON and CTIA that have become the mainstream for VoIP and Mobile telephony.

Update-Lee clarifies my point in a very nice way. In doing so I guess I look at the Skypes, Microsofts and others like them when the participate at eComm more in the "startup" emerging world, while those here at Telco 2.0 are the big carrier focused players like Cisco, Intel and people from Virgin.

We're both saying the same thing, just with softer hammers in different gloves.

Comments

[Lee Dryburgh]

Hi Andy - thanks for the pointer. I began a reply but it got so long it turned into a blog post on the topic here:

http://ecommmedia.com/blog/2008/04/ecomm-telco20-conferences.html