Emerge Inc. Blog

Talk about a contrast. Just 2 days after Lehman Brothers collapsed and on the day the stock market fell over 500 points, Nyree and I were in New York city for Web 2.0 Expo where optimism abounded.

For the past couple of years, Emerge team members have attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Due to the growth of the conference, organizers decided to create a New York version of the show.

The Web 2.0 Expo provides a glimpse into the future of the Internet. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, E-Bay and Salesforce.com launch new products and divisions. Fast rising start-ups launch their companies, announce venture funding and discuss the market niches they are attacking.

Personally, I enjoy the intense exposure to the many different facets of our industry. On the exhibit floor, hundreds of companies explain how their new software as a service is the next Google or Facebook. In the conference sessions, discussion leaders speak of the best way to display, process and store data, connect with people and build new business models.

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is March 31 – April 3, 2009. We are planning to go, so if anyone wants to join us, just let me know. If anyone is interested, but can’t make it to San Francisco, maybe I’ll twitter.