I want to make a seperate thread about it but just a quick comment before I get out of Vegas.
I think the show was much better than last 2 years in terms of attendance. We had over 2k people registered and we had a bit over 1.400 people that came and picked up their badge. So I am happy that all the effort we did to contact and convince many people to come to internext again, was so successfull. Was not an easy task and we were very happy to see such turnout.
Meet market on Monday went great, for 6 hours was packed and all the people and excibitors were very happy with it. Also the GFY party was fun and many people attended.
Also all the big companies and the people that had set up meetings on time had a great show and all i spoke were very happy. Was very positive that most business owners and decision makers attended and that helped to make the show very productive business wise.
On the other side, things didnt go so well in the organisational side. There was a mess with the seminars and the registration the first day(second day went all smooth thanks god).
Another obvious mistake was that the meet market should be done on Sunday and not on Monday,so people could have time to first meet and set up meetings for Monday. My bad especially on this...
We should have integrated the circle bar more in the event and give people a central meeting point to network. the lounge we had was too far away and made it very complicated, especially for the companies that had rented suites to come till there. Especially for newbies and people that wanted to arrange meetings on the spot and had not a schedule was complicated.
Was a hard lesson for us, vegas is not an easy place for a show, too many distractions
As said above, Venetian is way too big,next time we need to have everything more centralized. We spoke to the hotel to have space much closer to the actual hotel and not like now that was more close to the expo.
On the positive side, with the avn expo,ces and aff.summit was a gathering of 1000s of people these days and a great location to do business. To be honest I never seen so many business people gathered in the same place. I know many people too advantage of it and had a blast.
Bottomline, we need to work harder on many things, very happy the show was way more crowded but unhappy with some of the logistics. Ideas and help more than wellcome!