it@cork Web2.0 Conference - Review Intro
Written on June 10, 2006 by Conor O'Neill
it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Tom, Catherine and all the team at IT@Cork put on a fantastic half day Web 2.0 conference on Thursday.
The geek dinner the night before set the scene perfectly - thanks again to Damien and all the organisers of that and Stormhoek for the wine. I finally got to meet Damien, Donncha, Gavin and a few others who I had previously only known through their blogs like Branedy and his lovely wife. Shel and Salim were both very entertaining and I had some great chats with Walter, Fergus, Joe, Rob and Breffni.
The conference itself was a very nice mix of gentle intros to Web 2.0, deep technical presentations and insightful forecasts of where it was all going. Tom was, as ever, an excellent MC for the day and the necesary number of digs at certain other conferences were duly made by most of the speakers.
It’s only a pity that with the great weather, we didn’t think to have a CorkCrunch BBQ!
I’ll review each of the conference sections separately due to the wordiness of these posts.
Technorati Tags: it@cork, Web2.0, Web20, Tom Raftery, Damien Mulley, Web2Ireland
A BBQ sounds like a fun idea. Who in Cork has a big garden? Or maybe we should have it on the grounds of the NSC?
I have a big garden but an itty bitty BBQ. I love the NSC idea. I’d be on for helping to arrange if we can drum up some interest.
Glad you found the day useful Conor - after all the controversy, it would have been terrible if it was a flop!!!
There was never any danger of that! Well done again.
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