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April 12, 2007
A day at VON
People wonder why I look so dog-eared during the day at VON, so I wanted to share a "typical" day at a trade show for a reporter/editor, based upon my schedule of Tuesday, March 20.
6:30 AM - Get up, start the e-mail, have things download while in the shower. 57 e-mails before breakfast
7:30 AM - Press/Analyst Briefing with Sylantro
8:30 AM - Go back to room, process/sort e-mail. Watch another 20 download.
Between 9 and 10 AM - Go watch keynote speech with Jeff Pulver and others. Take pictures.
11:00 AM - Meeting with BroadSoft
11:30 AM - Meeting with GenBand; can't talk to me yet, something "big" in the works. Turned out GenBand was buying Tekelec's switching bits.
12:00 - Briefing lunch with Aculab
1:00 PM - Meet with Surf Communications.
1:30 PM - Meet with Covad
2:00 PM - Meet with Owera
2:30 PM - Meet with NexTone
3:00 PM - Meet with someone else I can't remember
3:20 PM - Run back to room, download another 22 e-mails.
4:00 PM - Meet with Packet8
4:35 PM - Run back to room, start processing more e-mail.
5:45 PM - Moderate "SIP vs IMS: Are there distinctions?" Watch two of the panelists square off. Wish I had a ring so I could see them mano-a-mano rather than BulletPoint-v-BulletPoint. Room is packed, despite the late hour
6:50 PM - Thank the panelists, shake hand, run over to Hyatt St. Clare for dinner media event.
8:50 PM - Leave dinner, go back to room. Download 47 more e-mails. Get FOCUS e-newsletter prepped to go.
10:40 PM - Curse the person who sent a 1 MB PDF file, clogging up the other e-mails.
11:35 PM - Put FOCUS newsletter "to bed" for publication in morning. Go to bed. Have dreams of 1U form factor devices spitting out PDFs...
Posted by dmohney at April 12, 2007 04:14 PM