Opening in great style, like usual, the day before the event was the fourth Quiconnect’s dinner, where everyone from the market has chance to meet, I had the pleasure to meet and chat with great people.
Day after, the event, divided in two parts, speeches in the Mobile Broadband Congress and the exposition in The Wireless Event, both being used for only one reason, meeting people, nobody really cares about the speeches much, they just want to sit somewhere, make meetings and close deals.
It was very common to see people sitting all day long doing meetings and not even getting to see the speeches or the exposition, for me, that’s what really worked, where I could meet people/companies to explore new opportunities.
I would think about changing it completely, the level of interest for the speeches are decreasing, mainly because it’s not chosen with focus in interest, it’s all about money, if you pay, you talk, which is a terrible model, normally events are either about scale or quality, and if you want to make money from the speakers you are dead, good speakers charge, not the opposite.
