Gov 2.0 Expo/Conference
I attended the gov 2.0 expo last week, and thought that it was a great conference.
There was a wide variety of keynote speakers, including Tim O’reilly, Tim Berners-Lee, Gary Vaynerchuck, and Linda Curetan.
In addition to hearing from so many influential people, I was there to cherry pick the cloud and web service conferences and workshops, and enjoyed and learned something in all of them.
Two really stand out in my mind still. One given by Alistair Croll on the topic of cloud computing, who I thought was an awesome speaker, and one given by Tim O’reilly on the topic of finding users.
Mr. O’reilly really strongly stated the importance of connecting with and engaging your user community, on any project commercial or governmental, and I couldn’t agree more.
All in all, the conference was quite good, I highly recommend it. The conferences, workshops and networking opportunities are all excellent.