Opening Welcome
Date: Wednesday, April 23
Time: 4:00 - 4:10PM
Location: Ballroom - 3rd Level
Track: Keynote
Tags Novice, KEYNOTE
Presented by Jennifer Pahlka (CMP), Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). Welcome
Comments
This comment is about the keynote organization -- While the talks were great, the stacked speakers for two hours was a bit much. Especially at the end of the day and without a break. There was a mass departure toward the end and I am certain the speakers who wrapped up the keynotes had a much smaller audience. I wanted to hear them all, but the was overload.
I agree with Jevan & Holly. Keynotes at the end of the day? (Keynote by definition is the FIRST one...) I thought the musical selection was chosen for the wrong community.
Great to see the "green" initiatives get some attention during the keynotes. However, this could be done a bit more - e.g. recommend "green" travel choices, SF public transport, sell reusable mugs on the first day, etc.






I don't know, I felt something was wrong. I felt some kind of doubt, a malaise, some nervosity both from Jen and Brady's presentation. Maybe it is me. Last year, I felt the energy and the enthousiam, this year I don't know... Tim's presentation was great and inspired. He posed like a sage, a mentor, pushing at sublimation level something that can be seen as a pure capitalist operation. He just pushed it at a superior level, at a level where our work is there to make people's life better. It is great. And he cited Rainier Maria Rilke's poem and he showed us Eugene Delacroix painting. Wow! In french, we would say: il faut le faire! The problem is that it was followed by someone who got rich by creating a program that let people throw sheeps at each other... Like I said... maybe it's me...