April 23, 2008

InnoTech Wrap Up Report

Well, the InnoTech Oregon event was last week, Wednesday and Thursday and we are almost recovered. It was two solid days of conference sessions with massive networking and one productive day of exhibits and demos at the Expo. So much happened over the two days it is difficult to recap in one blog, so I spread out over the next couple of days.

Wednesday, April 16 was strictly conference sessions with the expo set up going on behind closed doors. At times there were six different tracks happening and most of the day all six rooms were packed. The buzz in between the conference sessions was amazing and the complimentary coffee from EasyStreet did not hurt. Two of our main authors/speakers presented on April 16 to packed rooms with book signing taking place right after.

Ron Pernick, who resides in Portland, was the keynote for the Clean Tech Track hosted by SAO on April 16. When I opened the door, Ron's presentation was standing room only and I was excited to see the line of people purchasing his Clean Tech book from Powells and asking for autographs. I was a little worried about attendance for the Nonprofit Technology Summit, but again the room was full and I heard many positive comments about the sessions and the work TACS & NPOWER are doing in the community. I look forward to making the Nonprofit Tech Summit a big part of InnoTech next year with presentations and its own expo with demos and product discussions.

Over 800 business and technology professionals from the NW attended InnoTech on April 16. It was nothing but hard work and fun all day long. More to follow about the eMarketing Summit and second day of InnoTech. My thanks to everyone for attending and solidifying InnoTech as Oregon's premier technology event.

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April 16, 2008

Wireless at InnoTech - For Those That Cannot Disconnect

Start your live blogging and tweets. Besides iPhone or cell broadband, there are two options for wireless while at InnoTech this week. First option sponsored by Internet Strategy Forum. There will be a number of wireless connections available through the convention center.

How to: Locate available wireless networks, connect to the "Enterprise" option of available networks at the convention center, open your browser, click on Logon (left side) and use Oregon and password Innotech to finalize internet access.

If that does not work or the connections are all used at the time, you can wait and trying again or just connect through the wifi system for $10 per day. Hope that helps and more information to follow Wednesday morning.

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April 14, 2008

InnoTech Kicks Off in Two Days

After 6 months of planning and preparation InnoTech happens this week, April 16-17 at the Oregon Convention Center. It seems like just weeks ago it was October and we had the first planning meeting for the NW CIO Summit, now after months and months of calling, emailing and planning, InnoTech Oregon is here. I won't bore you again with how great this event is going to be, but with 100+ speakers, 2000 attendees, 90+ technology demos and must attend networking you can't go wrong.

Over 100 people per day have been registering and the numbers will pick up this week as schedules open up at the last minute for a number of people. I encourage everyone to register online, but you are welcome to walk up and register at the event. InnoTech has been mentioned in a few blogs this morning thanks to Dawn Foster and Steve Morris. More to follow and hope to see you there.

Comments (2) | Posted by Sean M. Lowery at 3:18 PM