Telecom Conference SUPERCOMM Shelved For 2010 28
itwbennett writes "Once the largest telecom show in the United States, and arguably the world, SUPERCOMM has been shelved for financial reasons, the Telecommunications Industry Association announced yesterday. Blogger Tom Henderson speculates that the new emphasis on mobility rather than the landline infrastructure is partly to blame. (The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and CTIA Wireless are the beneficiaries of this shift.) But part of the blame also has to go to the decline of multivendor conferences and trade shows, which Henderson attributes to vendors wanting their own shows where they can 'control the message.'"
Re:Why not have a teleconference? (Score:3, Interesting)
You were basically placed in a virtual main hall, where you could then choose which sessions you wanted to attend. In each presentation, you looked at what you would normally see in a conference sesion - a slideshow-type presentation. There were no interruptions during the presentations, but after each session, there was a Q&A period where you could use either your keyboard and chat/ask, or actually use your microphone. You'd be placed in a queue with other questioners.
They also had other typical convention-type things, such as a networking room, etc, as well as the usual giveaways for "visiting" a vendor booth.