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Posts Tagged ‘trade show’
Seen at Neuroscience 2010
Monday, November 29th, 2010
CYTO 2010
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Here are a few highlights from my trip to CYTO 2010 in Seattle this month.
- Lots of unexpected sunshine
- Though a touristy attraction, the views from the Space Needle were incredible
- Terminator skull from T2, storyboard sketches from the original Star Wars and concept sketches of the original starship Enterprise at EMP|SFM
- Wild Ginger
- Waterfront Seafood Grill – the best seafood ever
- Pike Place Market
- Dungeness crab omelets
- Creative design on the cover of Cytometry Part A, the Journal of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
A Trade Show about Trade Shows
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Exhibitor 2010 was a great experience. What better place to have a conference about exhibits than a city that is a living exhibit? Everything in Las Vegas is bigger, louder, flashier and over the top in more ways than I could have imagined.
The Mandalay Bay was a wonderful setting for the informative conference with its spacious accommodations and wonderful restaurants. (I must also add that the light reflecting off of the building at sunrise is nothing short of spectacular.) The sessions offered many insightful strategies, and the exhibit hall inspired numerous ideas for upcoming projects and provided connections to make them happen. The single drawback was the few aggressive vendors that chased victims down the aisles of the exhibit hall. You’d think that at a trade show about trade shows, all of the vendors would have more of a clue about not scaring off their prospective customers.
Even the travel to and from this event was an experience. I flew Southwest again for the first time since my recent years as a Silver Preferred passenger on US Airways. My bags flew free, I was allowed to leave my iPhone on in airplane mode and the crew dressed up for St. Patrick’s Day. Sweet.
Connecting Minds. Advancing Light.
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I enjoyed the opportunity to attend the Photonics West 2010 exhibit in San Francisco last week. This year was quite successful for the event. After being held in San Jose for many years, the show moved to San Francisco’s Moscone Center. This relocation made it possible for more companies to comfortably exhibit. It was also a pleasant experience spending time in a more modern facility and the great city of San Francisco with its wealth of hotels, shops and restaurants. There were 1,147 exhibitors at the main show and 178 at the BiOS pre-meeting. Attendance for the event was also up with 18,327 people attending. Also impressive was the fact that over 200 products were launched at the show.
After a successful BiOS meeting over the weekend, the Cirque du Lasaire opening reception kicked off the main event on Monday night. It was an unexpected mashup of cirque meets laser light show meets clips of the laser scene from Goldfinger. I especially enjoyed the guy on stilts dressed like a tree. He reminded me of an Ent from Lord of the Rings.
A nice exhibit “Advancing the Laser: 50 Years and Into the Future” was on display throughout the event. It was educational and amusing with a collection of larger-than-life (well at least larger-than-me) historic lasers.
A nice side show took place on Wednesday. While the show was underway, Steve Jobs was next door at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announcing Apple’s new iPad. With a decorated building and a flurry of media, excitement was in the air.
The grand finale of Wednesday was the 2009 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation sponsored by SPIE and Laurin Publishing. The winners were announced at a banquet held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Congratulations to Agilent Technologies, Hamamatsu Corporation, Infra Tec Infrared LLC, IRphotonics, Laser Operations LLC, LightLab Imaging Inc, Lehighton Electronics, Linden Photonics, National Semiconductor, and Swamp Optics on their victories. I can’t wait to see who wins next year.
The successful show wrapped up after another day of exhibits on Thursday. I’m already looking forward to next year. See you in 2011, San Francisco!
