The Road To EMC World

So we're now less than a month away from EMC World 2008. The sessions are locked the book has/should be on it's way to the printers and it took nearly a month and required two VPs, a Finance Director and my Manager to get sign off on my attendance. (Let me tell you something about cost control..)

I'm going. Barry is going. Chuck is going. Steve is going. So if in the middle of next month it becomes all EMC World all the time you'll know why. I'm looking at the list of Executives going and wondering how the continuity of governance plan plays out should an asteroid hit the Mandalay Bay. It look very much like the war mongers inherit the company if the rest of us die all at once.

Sorry about that.

Of course the only reason I think about stuff like that is when Roger Ailes was running his consulting company he used to pose an interesting question and tape your response. On camera he'd ask what would you do first if the entire executive team was wiped out and you were the most senior officer in the company left alive?

For the overly ambitious this situation was a godsend, some seeing this as their coronation and automatic acceptance into the CEO club, but in reality it was a test of empathy as well as business savvy. Some of the answers he got from the would be masters of the universe were horrifying to say the least.

Anyhoo, getting back to EMC World I don't have a copy of the Book yet but the De-dup Birds of a Feather session looks interesting and has a bucket of CTO's attending. Barry is running sessions on FLASH and I fully expect some marketing person to try and flying tackle him (I wish them the best of luck with that) when he starts straying into "the world of the future" talk. Chuck will be hanging with customers. (He will but on another coast) Steve will at the Innovation Pavilion, hopefully with the Sport Coat and I'll be on the EMC booth wearing something which hopefully won't make me look like I'm going to ask if you'd like fries with that.

More than a year ago I squatted on twitter.com/emcworld. That doesn't appear to be even remotely close to coming online yet since it hasn't really been publicised but there it is for reference anyway. Some of us will be tweeting direct from the show so that's car crash blogging potential right there.

More updates to follow.

Comments

[Bill Petro]

BillPetro.com will be at EMC World!

[Storagezilla]

See you there Bill. ;)

[Len Devanna]

I'll see you gents there as well...

Trying to pull together an event for bloggers... If you're blogging your way through World this year - go sign up!

http://lensblog.typepad.com/ebiz/2008/04/emc-world-blogg.html