{"id":8859,"date":"2010-09-27T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/must-attend_networking_event_at_itexpo.html"},"modified":"2010-09-27T21:37:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:37:26","slug":"must-attend-networking-event-at-itexpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/must-attend-networking-event-at-itexpo.html","title":{"rendered":"Must-Attend Networking Event at ITEXPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please be sure to come to the Bonaventure Brewing Company Patio at the <a href=\"http:\/\/deals.westin.com\/Westin-Bonaventure-Los-Angeles-Hotel-1004\/so.htm?PS=PS_aa_WSW_WestSouthwest_Google_BD_Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel_Exact_051310_NAD_FM\">Westin Bonaventure Hotel<\/a> this Monday, <em>Oct 4th, 5:30-8:30 PM<\/em> for some of the best networking at the show. I have attended many events at this location at past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a>s and the setting is by far one of the best for this sort of reception.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to meeting with the TMC team, you get to meet with the sponsor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/jim-abbott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/jim-abbott-thumb-384x490-8127.jpg\" alt=\"jim-abbott.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a>reception, Interactive Intelligence and a number of speakers from the show.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the best knowledge you gain from an event comes from the receptions and if what I&#8217;ve written isn&#8217;t enticing enough, consider you&#8217;ll get to meet major league pitcher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Abbott\">Jim Abbott<\/a> as he is the guest speaker of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Learning, networking and if you play your cards right you may get an autograph &#8211; what could be better? <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cool\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-cool.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cool\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Here are the hotel details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonaventurebrewing.com\/index.php\">Westin                                    Bonaventure <\/a><br \/> Bonaventure Brewing Company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonaventurebrewing.com\/index.php\">info<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=404+South+Figueroa+Street,+Los+Angeles,+California+90071&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=75.629209,144.140625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=A\">map<\/a>)<br \/> 404                                    South Figueroa Street<br \/> Los Angeles, California                                    90071<br \/> Phone: (213) 624-1000<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please be sure to come to the Bonaventure Brewing Company Patio at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel this Monday, Oct 4th, 5:30-8:30 PM for some of the best networking at the show. I have attended many events at this location at past ITEXPOs and the setting is by far one of the best for this sort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,181,201,199,197,189,211,118,1670,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}