Defrag Blog

We’re 19 days out, and I’m swamped - so for today, I want to point to Sameer Patel’s post about why you should come to Defrag. I’ll quote Sameer at length:

I’m going to spare you a diatribe about why its a great event and distill it down to five reasons, (or fragments) that make me go back and why this an awesome event for the enterprise folks out there:

1. Its about debating solutions to big big business and economic value challenges that will consume us all over the next 12-24 months. That applies to the buy-side as well as the sell side.

2. Its about the ramifications of eventual large scale adoption of a lot of what a serious IT executive will deem to be well, “cutesy” ideas today (e.g. Real Time Enterprise).

3. A cut to the chase discussion on which consumer trends we see and use today might one day be enterprise worthy. Remember when people laughed at the concept of ‘Facebook for the Enterprise’? Yep, that probably came up at Defrag two events ago.

4. Little talk-to-the-crowd panels. Everyone is deemed too intelligent and has an equal voice. You’ll spend more time talking to the person sitting next to you than you will listening to someone on stage. Guaranteed.

5. Its frightfully practical stuff. No fluff. All actionable thinking that makes you look at work differently when you leave. And makes you want to come right back the next year.

Discuss things 18-24 months before the rest of the world stumbles upon them, interact with amazing people, walk away with your head filled with no-fluff practicality. Great stuff, Sameer!

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