The WHIR is here at ISPCON Fall 2007, and while things are just getting started around here, I thought I'd take the opportunity to offer a bit of an intro to our blog coverage of the event. Fall ISPCON is usually, in my experience anyway, held in Santa Clara. But this year's event is going on in San Jose itself. So far, I haven't felt the effect much more than in the form of a considerably shorter cab ride from airport to hotel. Score one for San Jose, I suppose.
The venue - the San Jose McEnery Convention Center - seems a little more confined than last year's venue - the Santa Clara Convention Center. Whether that's good, bad or totally irrelevant remains to be seen. The exhibit hall is definitely smaller.
After a first pass through the session schedule, there are a few sessions I definitely intend to check out.
Tuesday I hope to be in attendance at (WHIR Blogger) Tom Millitzer's "Positioning Your Internet Company for Sale - and Making More Money," "Strategies for Growing your Hosting Business" with groupSPARK's Ravi Agarwal and EasyStreet's Rich Bader and the keynote "Neutrality's Linchpin, is Bandwidth a Commodity?" with Cogent's Dave Schaeffer.
Actually, Tom's presentation has already happened, and I'll post more about it later.
On Wednesay, I hope to stop by the "Negotiating the SaaS Minefield" session with (WHIR blogger) David Snead at 8:45, the keynote "Beyond Hosting: Unlocking Profits with On Demand IT" with The Planet's Douglas Erwin, "Virtualization: The Need for Green Data Centers" with Acronis's Bob Thaler and "Guerilla Marketing for Service Providers" with Larry Loebig of the Guerilla Marketing Association. That's the plan as it stands right now, anyway, after that first pass. By all means, let me know if you think there's something can't-miss on the schedule.
More to come from ISPCON, and if you're here at the show, hopefully we'll get a chance to meet you.
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