ICE08: Day Two

I could share another quirky story with you about my day yesterday at ICE08, but instead, I want to take this time to say a little thank you to Michele Perras.

Michele is a producer at Interactive Ontario that was instrumental in making ICE08 happen. For the entire duration of the conference, she was running around and making sure everything was going great and everyone was doing well, and she did it wonderfully. She was also the person that recruited me to blog for the ICE08 blog, and I want to thank her for giving me that opportunity. Attending ICE08 was an excellent experience for me, and have Michele to thank for that.

Speaking of the ICE08 blog, yesterday I wrote about bridging the gap between ideas and research:

In addressing the issue of finding great talent and innovative people, Montandon was clear: if you create an exciting environment where ideas are valued, you don’t have to look for great talent, because the talent will want to come work for you.

I also talked about future innovations in wireless:

If ubiquitous connectivity is essential to grow mobile and wireless adoption in Canada, is there room for growth when our wireless data rates are still some of the worst in the world? Smartphones and mobile devices these days are powerful enough to deliver rich and intuitive experiences, so why are there still few content providers taking advantage of this power to provide usable and compelling experiences?

ICE08 has now wrapped up, so I’m taking some time to relax this weekend and unplug. No internet for me. If you still need your fix, you can check the updates on the ICE08 blog. Of course, you can always look back at archival Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us updates over on Twemes.

And in a final note, I want to say congratulations to Michael Wilbon for becoming a father and to Davidson College for making the Elite 8. (I caught up on all the news this morning.)