We wrapped up iConnect 2010 yesterday and it was fabulous! This year we took the plunge and held our annual user conference 100% virtually and what a difference! We had nearly 1,300 people registered and 800 participated over the 2 day conference. That was about 3 times the number of participants we had last year. Our customers suggested we make the event virtual this year so that more organizations and more people within their organizations could attend…so we did and they came!
As always, we had two tracks going on simultaneously, a leadership track which focused on tips and tricks for managing a successful organization in the virtual age and a user track, which focused on practical uses and best practices for end users of our products. We had some awesome speakers again this year including Chris Gosk of Global Knowledge, Noelle Archambeau of SAP Global Marketing, and Melanie Turek, one of the Principal Analysts at Frost & Sullivan. These are just a few of the many engaging speakers from the event.
With participants from over 20 countries, our patented Green Meter measured savings of over 1.3 million pounds of CO2 emissions and nearly 3 million air miles from being flown!! This of course doesn’t even take into consideration the valuable time and productivity losses that occur when employees travel.
Our primary focus is and has always been to give our customers the best products, training and customer service in the industry and this was just one more way to give customers what they need while having the ability to showcase what we do firsthand! I hope that everyone who attended felt that it was time well spent! For those of you that could not or did not attend, many of the conference PowerPoints and recordings will be posted on our website by the end of the week. I would invite you to listen to them, either for the first time or as a recap of what you learned at the conference. I hope to “see” you all next year!
Posted under Audio Conferencing, Green Business, Industry Buzz, Product Training, Travel Reduction, Web Conferencing, iLinc News
This post was written by James Powers on February 25, 2010
