I went to, probably the same, (big data) Gigaom event. I really enjoyed it - good people and talks. There weren't, however, many customers there. It was all o

I went to, probably the same, (big data) Gigaom event. I really enjoyed it - good people and talks. There weren't, however, many customers there. It was all other people selling stuff. So I didn't go again. The recent wave of data related businesses are now generally at the phase where they need to meet potential customers from corporates at events. Not sure how/if this affects business model though! The profitability of events is opaque to me.