Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:33:13 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: iap@vma.cc.nd.edu Cc: linuxisp@lightning.com, linuxisp@jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, os2-isp@dental.stat.com, apple-internet-providers@solutions.apple.com Subject: ISPCON 97 - Aug 20-23rd - San Francisco (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.970220163209.27524Q-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:33:24 -0700 From: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com> Reply-To: inet-access@earth.com To: inet-access@earth.com Subject: ISPCON 97 - Aug 20-23rd - San Francisco Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:35:15 -0700 (MST) Resent-From: inet-access@earth.com SUMMARY: ISPCON 97 - August 20-23rd, 1997, San Francisco Hilton, More at http://www.ispcon.com. I will rave for a page or two, but the summary line has all the facts. A number of you have been inquiring about our plans for a 1997 Internet Service Provider Convention (ISPCON). As it is late February, we should probably be a little further along than we are. In any event, we have committed to doing ISPCON again for 1997. We had 3042 total attendees to the 1996 show in San Francisco - 946 Internet Service Providers among them. Slightly under a thousand were exhibit only attendees of not very specific vintage. And we had 104 vendors exhibiting in Moscone. This year, as a result of some well founded if perhaps a bit loud comments regarding the separation of the exhibits and the sessions, we have pulled it all under one roof at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers Hotel, San Francisco, California. The exhibit setup will begin Wednesday, August 20th, with the traditional welcoming reception held that evening. The show will go through Saturday, August 23rd, with a closing banquet that evening. We had a lot of interest from some of the larger vendors in being show sponsors for the event. We need a couple of weeks to round up the truly interested from those that said they were, so the promotional efforts will lag a week or so. Cisco has already signed on and I understand a couple of our guys are meeting with Ascend this morning. Others who had expressed an interest in becoming essentially co-sponsors of the show: US Robotics Microsoft DEC Cascade Compaq IBM Bay Networks Shiva We should have this element of who is sponsoring the show finalized in about three weeks. The web site is mostly wreckage from last year at this point. http://www.ispcon.com. But we do have it set up to take registrations, and should be able to improve it a bit within the next week or so. Those interested in exhibiting can call Bob Holley at 800-933-6038. We're also issuing a call for papers for those who would like to present in the educational session schedule. As many of you know, we did over 120 sessions last year with very little in the way of the feel-good pap you may be accustomed to at most of these trade show events. We don't do "Internet is Cool" stuff. But if you have a concept for a solid technical session, or something productive on legal, business, or economic issues facing ISP's, we're all ears now and it gets very difficult to work in during the last week of July when it will probably finally occur to you. Papers should include a summary of the session, a bio paragraph on the speaker, full speaker contact information, and if possible a photo suitable for publication. Address session proposals to ISPCON Session Schedule, Boardwatch Magazine, 8500 West Bowles Ave., Suite 210, Littleton, CO 80123. Jack Rickard Boardwatch Magazine ============================== ISP Mailing List ============================== Email ``unsubscribe'' to inet-access-request@earth.com to be removed. Wrap your text at 80 columns, don't post messages with long lines.
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