Plugg conference in Brussels
March 21st, 2008 by David Stone. No Comments »Plugg is over, it was the first of I’m sure many Plugg events to be held. Overall the event was great; organized well, wifi worked perfectly, fantastic venue, adequate food, etc. however I couldn’t help but feel an overall lack of direction while at the event. It flowed a bit like an amateur band… stopping between every song at a gig, that however didn’t stop it being a great event.
The numbers presented about the games industry in Max Niederhofer’s session were not what I expected at all, the market for flash games massively out-weights console games. I got a question in about Silverlight’s game capabilities, Max however isn’t a Silverlight expert (.. turns out he’s a hell-of-a WoWer though!)
Both the Entrepreneur & the Investor panels were interesting conversations with a number of good questions from the audience. It was great to meet Paul Fisher, he seems to know the advertising world like the back of his hand, days of conversations to be had there I’m sure!
From what I saw of the Start-Ups Rally sessions they worked well (although, I’m convinced there’s a better solution to collect the votes from the audience) which Viewdle won, while Zilok got the best audience rating. I also skipped most of Tom Raftery’s session ‘Radically reducing your IT carbon footprint’ fearing it would be similar to previous sessions of his, however the topic is very relevant and only becoming more-so.
Jet lag was starting to get the better of me and I needed to stand up to stay awake so got some “LobbyConning” in, which is always interesting, meeting a number of interesting folks.
Jet lag was really setting in so I never made it to the official after party, but not before enjoying dinner with a bunch of great folks. A big thank you to Robin Wauters for organizing Plugg.