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The internet is slowly killing all trade shows ( cars even ).

pjmlp 8y ago
Yep, CEBIT got rather boring when all relevant stuff was already known from Web sites.
ghaff 8y ago
Is that actually true? I wouldn't know it from my travel schedule :-) I do think there tends to be more focus and certainly more small/casual events these days. There are still huge tech conferences, but they're mostly put on by a single vendor. It's the big relatively generic events that seem to have suffered the most.
- sigi45 8y ago
  I don't have numbers but i thought about it a few days ago as well. E3 and stuff means: "Watching the trailer 'live'" and "waiting for hours for playing one game for 10 minutes. Not even sure why companies like Nintendo, Sony and co spend so much money on it. That shit is expensive, the journalists don't use the public both and the 'normal people' which are able to consume it, are not that much in comparison to advertising.
  - ghaff 8y ago
    A lot of the value of big shows is that they're an opportunity for lots of meetings with partners, analysts, press, customers, etc. They keynotes and breakouts can be good, but I'd rather watch them on video. There are times I've gone to big shows and watched the keynotes from a hang space, overflow room, or my hotel room. I'm usually ion too many meetings to have much time to go to sessions anyway. Increasingly, though, I try to avoid the big events and spend my time at smaller ones where I find it easier to have informal conversations.
hobofan 8y ago
I wish! CEBIT is just being replaced by multiple more targeted indirect successors. One of them being the Smart Country Convention[0] which happened last week for the first time. From what I've heard SCC has been created directly following the announcement of the changing concept of the CEBIT this year. DISCLAIMER: I was tangentially involved with SCC via organizing a Hackathon there. [0]: https://www.smartcountry.berlin/ https://www.smartcountry.berlin/

Yep, CEBIT got rather boring when all relevant stuff was already known from Web sites.

Is that actually true? I wouldn't know it from my travel schedule :-) I do think there tends to be more focus and certainly more small/casual events these days. There are still huge tech conferences, but they're mostly put on by a single vendor. It's the big relatively generic events that seem to have suffered the most.

sigi45 8y ago
I don't have numbers but i thought about it a few days ago as well. E3 and stuff means: "Watching the trailer 'live'" and "waiting for hours for playing one game for 10 minutes. Not even sure why companies like Nintendo, Sony and co spend so much money on it. That shit is expensive, the journalists don't use the public both and the 'normal people' which are able to consume it, are not that much in comparison to advertising.
- ghaff 8y ago
  A lot of the value of big shows is that they're an opportunity for lots of meetings with partners, analysts, press, customers, etc. They keynotes and breakouts can be good, but I'd rather watch them on video. There are times I've gone to big shows and watched the keynotes from a hang space, overflow room, or my hotel room. I'm usually ion too many meetings to have much time to go to sessions anyway. Increasingly, though, I try to avoid the big events and spend my time at smaller ones where I find it easier to have informal conversations.

hobofan 8y ago

I wish! CEBIT is just being replaced by multiple more targeted indirect successors. One of them being the Smart Country Convention[0] which happened last week for the first time. From what I've heard SCC has been created directly following the announcement of the changing concept of the CEBIT this year. DISCLAIMER: I was tangentially involved with SCC via organizing a Hackathon there. [0]: https://www.smartcountry.berlin/ https://www.smartcountry.berlin/