Welcome to the #NILF
8Feb2010 Filed under: Delegate Experience, NILF 2010 Author: Mark Kobayashi-HillaryI got into Mumbai early this morning and checked into the conference hotel in the early hours.
Even at that early hour of the morning, I could see people working to prepare the opening drinks reception area, and the registration stands. I went down earlier today to meet my Indian publisher, Viva books, and there was a feverish sense of anticipation with people all over the conference area of the hotel working to make sure everything is ready for tomorrow. I even bumped into @avinashraghava as he arrived fresh off a plane from Delhi.
I’ve had to inform a friend in Bangalore that spot registrations are closed. The #NILF 2010 breaks all attendance records for a NASSCOM event, so that sense of confidence, enthusiasm, and economic recovery is already in the air. I’m looking forward to the next three days. It will be manic as always, with lectures, meetings, and networking from breakfast to late into the evening, but this year the #NILF vibe feels more positive and full of potential than for many years gone by.
About the author:
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary
Mark is a British writer with a history of commenting on technology, outsourcing, globalisation, and corporate change. He has written several well-known books and is one of the best-known European experts on corporate change and globalisation and is a frequent media commentator. Mark is known as a leading expert on the - particularly corporate - use of social media, as an early adopter of the technologies. He now writes the most popular blog featured in Computing magazine (www.computing.co.uk) and the most popular outsourcing-themed podcast on iTunes. Even his personal photos and videos receive several thousand views every day and his creative commons photos have featured in books and publications across the world - including the tech-Bible Wired. Mark’s Talking Outsourcing blog was shortlisted for the 2009 Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards in the best consultant or analyst category and Mark has recently started his own blog about corporate social media in Computer Weekly (http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/social-business/). www.markhillary.com
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Mark Kobayashi-Hillary
February 8th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
The video link no longer works. The hotel management were upset I had done a piece to camera in the elevator and corridor by my room. Personally I don’t think that creates any security threat to the Hyatt hotel (nothing close to a floor plan and mainly my face chatting to the camera in the lift), but I’m going to pick that up as a blog topic and interview the general manager about keeping people safe in hotels here, rather than argue about whether or not my video should stay live…