Well, once again — who’d have guessed? — I made a whole bunch of new contacts at DEMO! 🙂 Once I get home from these events and go through my cards, I’ve made it a tradition to do a post and say-hey to these folks. So, here ya go, friends!
The names below are just new people I actually got a card from. My apologies to all the others I met but didn’t have time to exchange cards with — that’s why cards are good: they help us remember! Regardless, it was great meeting all of you! And I hope to see you again soon in my travels, or at a future conference. And to all those old friends and acquaintances I ran into again, it was awesome to see you, too! I just wish I could have had a chance to talk more with all of you… Things are so rushed at these conferences, especially when you’re blogging like mad as well. [That’s why the coming new DEMO.com community site will be so great!]
Here are those from whom I got a card (in alphabetical order by last name):
-Sean Ammirati, VP Business Development, mSpoke (FeedHub), Pittsburgh, PA
-Matt Biscuiti, VP, The Lippin Group, NYC (for PeopleJam)
-Alistair Campbell, CTO, TruPhone, London, UK
-Scott Chou, Chairman, iForem, Redwood Shores, CA (and Gabriel Venture Partners)
-Allison Clark, Ink Tank PR (for ideablob), Highland Park, IL
-Adam Darowski, UE Designer, BatchBlue Software, Providence, RI
-Chris DeMarche, Director, MotionDSP (FixMyMovie.com), San Mateo, CA
-Mike Garity, VP Marketing & Business Development, DEMO
-Thor Harris, President, Percepture, Lake Hiawatha, NJ
-Jonathan Hirshon, Principal, Horizon PR, Santa Clara, CA
-J. Johnson, Chairman, Global Communications, Houston, TX
-Ami Kassar, Chief Innovation Officer, Advanta (ideablob), Spring House, PA
-Zhenya Kirueshkin-Stepanoff, VP Sales, iForem, Redwood Shores, CA
-Joanne Kisling, PR, Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA
-Colin Kurth, Events Manager, PR Newswire, Chicago, IL
-Rene Lacerte, CEO, CashView, Palo Alto, CA
-Dave Mawhinney, CEO, mSpoke (FeedHub), Pittsburgh, PA
-Macario Namie, Sr Director, Product Marketing, Jasper Wireless, Sunnyvale, CA
-Alex Olson, Cofounder, FilmCrave.com, Kansas City, MO
-Stephen Pieraldi, CEO, iForem, Redwood Shores, CA
-Trish Ridgway, Sr Account Executive, Ignite PR, Belmont, CA
-Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Communications Director, BatchBlue Software, Providence, RI
-Ori Soen, CEO, MuseStorm, Yahud, Israel, and Sunnyvale, CA
-Cathy Sperrazzo, EyeToEye Communications, San Diego, CA
-Oliver Starr, Senior Analyst, Guidewire Group, San Francisco, CA
-Sean Varah, CEO, MotionDSP (FixMyMovie.com), San Mateo, CA
-Rob Vickery, Clarinova, Del Mar, CA
-Amanda Wheatcroft, Principal, Beta PR, San Diego, CA
I’m gonna have to try getting onto BatchBlue’s free site for DEMOfall attendees (see my previous post on that company) so I can reconnect with people — both these and the ones I didn’t get cards from. There are so many conversations I wanted to have, so many great new companies and technologies I wanted to learn more about, so many old contacts I wanted to reconnect with, but (sigh) just not enough time. These two-day events are such a whirlwind!
Hi Graeme – thanks again for stopping by our station and for all the great DEMO photos and feedback! Let me know if you want me to send any of our world famous BatchBrew coffee out to you, we have a little left 🙂 Cheers…
Such meetings are a great chance to meet people who may be useful for you in the future. And you are right when you take cards from these people. So, you can contact with them if you need.
Graeme –
Great meeting you too!
– Matt