In what is shaping up to be a great event in Barcelona during the upcoming 3GSM Conference, the Mobile Monday group has announced a one day rapid fire presentation event called the Mobile Peer Awards. If I was in Barcelona, I'd want to be at this as the organizers don't want the old, tired, big and fat companies presenting. Instead they want the upstart, disruptive types in the same vein as Telco 2.0 does for their next event.
To me, this is the future of the conference world, not the so called established events which have become the standard for the many industries that the 2.0 world is playing in.
While I still see a place, and lots of success, for the established events, these upstarts will only make the big events better, so hopefully the establishment embraces the new ideas that are out there, instead of viewing them as threats and finds ways to bring them into the fold, not
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