I’m back home in Denver after 360|Flex Indy, and finally able to get my thoughts down on ‘paper’
The conference itself was a huge success, we had about 289 people with us in Indy, which you have to admit ain’t bad for “this economy”.
The hotel and conference center was awesome, i mean, an old train station? awesome! I’m not a huge fan of the layout we ended up with, but i kinda knew that going in. I just hate conferences that span floors, and we did that. Lesson learned.
The sessions, well what’s there to say but that we had 45+ sessions from some of the best minds in the community. Open source projects were launching like kites in a tornado. It was awesome, to be able to be the place where that kind of cool stuff was happening.
Oh and then there was Doug
The parties were a ton of fun, and if there was some way we could do a week of parties, I’d totally know each attendee! By the last party on Tuesday I was able to identify a god number of people by face as they came up to get their drink tickets.
The Wednesday keynote went well and is always my favorite part. Getting a chance to talk to everyone, talk about the conference, what Tom and I are up to etc. Fun times.
It was nice for Tom and I to share that InsideRIA, InsideMobile, and 360|iDev are in full force effort mode, coming in rapid succession this summer, starting in July. We’ve partnered with O’Reilly for the first two, and that’s crazy exciting. Tom and I have been working with our Pal Steve at O’Reilly on this idea since mmm well it probably started on the Ebay Town hall patio at the first 360|Flex, yeah it’s been a while in the making. The partnership should really open some door’s for O’Reilly and 360|Conferences.
An added bonus was we got to meet Joe Wikert, Steve’s boss, who’s also a big eBook/Kindle fan. It was cool to talk to him about 360|Whisperings, which he was really interested in. I can’t wait to get our first few authors up onthe site.
I'm a science fiction writer and conference organizer. In 2017 I published my first book, 'Space Rogues', a fun Sci-Fi adventure with a fun cast of characters. I'm also the co-founder of 360|Conferences, a conference and event logistics consulting company.
