A humble thank you to my followers who came out in support of ITEXPO this past week in Miami. Thank you conferees who braved a tough economic climate and came to the show. I also want to extend appreciation to the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at the show. In addition, thanks to our many partners who contributed greatly to the success of this week of events.
Still, many aisles at the show were busy for 3 entire days, making me wonder if the attendees who were there had more interest than ever and spent a record amount of time in the exhibit hall.
In addition there was so much more to see at this show including new technologies and events such as 4G, M2M, cloud telephony, startup camp telephony, smart grid and many others.
What does the success of this event mean for the health of communications and technology? Well, as I have been saying all along, if you are a responsive company, and have great products and promotion, you can do very well in the market. There is tremendous demand to save money and increase productivity and if you are innovative, customers will buy from you - even in a tough market.
This should be a strong lessen that consistent investment in R&D, PR and marketing are essential to maintain and even gain share of market.
2010 Total Attendance | |
Paid Conference | 301 |
Exhibit Hall VIPs | 5,995 |
Exhibitors | 896 |
Speakers | 297 |
Press | 72 |
Total | 7,561 |
Demogarphics | |
VAR/Reseller | 28% |
Service Provider | 26% |
Enterprise | 25% |
System Integrator | 9% |
Manufacturer/Dev | 9% |
Other/Consulting | 3% |
Here are some of the happenings from the show - in reality this is just a fraction of all the exciting things which took place and my team will be going through more of the video footage and posting it soon. Here is the ITEXPO East 2010 video page where you can see all of the interviews.
On the lighter side - Vitelity adds some excitement to the show
