Let’s Get Ready to Rave! (Enterprise Rave, That Is)
by Jerry Bowles
Can I confess something. I have come to loath travel. Having knocked off Antarctica and Greenland and Iceland before I was 25 (courtesy the U.S. Navy) and spent a 20-year career in corporate communications traveling the world first and business class on other people’s money (back when first and business class actually meant something), I find airplane travel these days about as satisfying as careening down a Mexican mountainside on a 40-year old bus designed to hold 50 people with 162 fellow travelers and 57 live chickens.
You can imagine my delight, then, when Francois Gossieaux of Corante fame invited me to take part in Enterprise Rave 2.0, a 24 hour Enterprise 2.0 brainstorming session with fellow practitioners and guests on May 21-22 at the trendy Hudson Hotel in New York City. As fate would have it, I live across the street from the Hudson. If I turn my head slightly to the left and look out the window as I type this I can see it. That’s my kind of travel.
The program looks outstanding. Andrew McAfee will kick off the event on the evening of May 21 with a keynote address that frames the issues around E 2.0 and Euan Semple will kick off the next morning session with an “Introduction/Provocation.” (Euan is an outstanding provocateur and I mean that as a compliment.) Andy McAfee will instigate the afternoon. The rest of the schedule consists of facilitated breakout group discussions and reports and a final wrapup at the end of the day.
If you are a practitioner looking at deploying web 2.0 tools in your enterprise or actively struggling with pilot projects to try to do that, don’t miss this event. And if you are planning to go, use the link in the left sidebar (at Enterprise Web 2.0 if you’re seeing this somewhere else) to get a $250 discount. I’m looking forward to welcoming you to my neighborhood.
