We had a fantastic event. This was our 10th – in 10 years. 122 guests came from 3 continents.
We had many leaders in Innovation and Technology together, from IBM, to P&G, to DSM to SAP – and listening to their vision of the future was fascinating.
There were also 16 small companies with a wealth of new technology. Two examples; Vincent Ribas came from Madrid to present his way to measure blood pressure (and other things) with light. Yagi-san came from Tokyo to present his new encapsulating technology. Lots of fascinating discussion.
When doing technology deals – it’s all about people. Which is a key reason we have been hosting our own event for 10 years now….
I’ll send out a more detailed description of the event, but I did want to share a few pictures:
Tom Reeves, VP of IP and Licensing at IBM, is about to start his presentation. IBM filed 4,500 patents last year.
Jason Lye (Newell Rubbermaid), Thomas Jacobs (Material ConneXion), Chip Murray (DuPont), Ben duPont (yet2), Nob Tamagawa (yet2)
Yagi-san (Ellie), Rob Kirschbaum DSM , Takeda-san (KISCO)
Rob Kirschbaum (DSM), Bob Hirsch (DuPont – ret.), George Polson (Arch Chemicals)
Scott Schmidt (Arkema), Christopher Savage (Georgia Power), David Groh (Amway)
Craig Tomanelli (Bayer Healthcare), Alex House (FTT), Emma Hughes (yet2 Europe), Steve Fusco (AT&T)
Phil Stern (yet2), Rob Shaddock (Tyco)
Jeff Weedman (P&G), Joe Fox (Ashland), Bob Hirsch (DuPont – ret.), Tim Bernstein (yet2)
Dan Abramowicz (Crown), Jason Lye (Newell Rubbermaid), Tom Ales (Kimberly Clark), Cheryl Perkins (Kimberly-Clark ret.)
Andy Martin (WLGore), John Lynn (Discovery Alliance ), Kenneth Klimpel (Colgate Palmolive)
Marcel Lubben (DSM), Luc Vanmaele (Agfa)
Tim O’Gorman (Shell), Caryn Oryniak (Church&Dwight)
Rob Kirschbaum’s lobster – anyone that knows my partners – Tim and Phil – knows how cheap they are. The fact that these huge lobsters slipped through our accounting process is a mystery to me – but they sure were good.
PS I’m an amateur photographer and I find this site a great resource: www.strobist.com
Ben,
Congratulations on the conference! I just finished Tapscott’s Wikinomics, and Yet2 was appropriately recognized as a leader in your field. Kudos on that too.
I was privileged to attend the 2008 non-obvious dinner you hosted. Hope to in the future. Meanwhile, keep up the good work.
Thanks Don.
I enjoy your site. Maybe you could tell me how I can go about keeping up to date with it?