Telepocalypse

Conference calls

I’m going to be at two London conferences in the next few weeks.

On Tuesday 22 November I’ll be crawling out of bed at 4.30am to catch the first flight down to attend The End Game for Broadband Britain conference as blogger-in-residence. The Access to Broadband Campaign (strictly non-profit, no jokes about telcos please) is auctioning off 10 precious seats on eBay as well as sponsorship of Peter Cochrane’s keynote (which is really gunning ahead!).

Then on 30 November and 1 December is NextGen Services and Networks, right next to Heathrow. Ah! The smell of kerosene wafting across the Thames Valley, home sweet home. (For the unfamilar, my father worked at British Airways for 30+ years at Heathrow at their maintenance base, and I was born near the other corner of LHR.) Anyhow, I’m giving one of the keynotes, nominally on “Being There”. A mixture of Douglas Galbi’s insights into the nature of presence, pointers to some examples of innovative presence, and showing the model I use with clients to explore the “Voice2.0” space. All in 25 minutes. Gee, I’d better get some powerpoint done.

Both look like they’ll be cracking events, lots of controversy, plenty to learn. If anyone’s interested in meeting up at either one, just drop me a note.