Without doubt, for me, one of my favourite events. Why?
Almost five years ago, when I was starting to tinker with XING and to network proactively, I discovered Thursday. I saw the event posted on XING, and the guest speaker was Ismael El-Qudsi, who was at Microsoft at the time.
The event was at the CEOE and the room was packed, which impressed me, above all the participation of a good part of the audience and the always excellent moderation of Ildefonso Mayorgas.
At the end of the event I went up to Ildefonso, who was certainly very nice to me, and I also wanted to offer him the meeting rooms at the company I worked for back then, Regus.
From then on Ilde held a couple of Thursdays at Regus Palacio de Miraflores, the most important one being when the PP and the PSOE presented their information technology proposals for their election campaigns. More than 100 people at the Palacio de Miraflores, lots of debate and then Netjuerging.
The event is a winner because it’s usually limited to a maximum of 60 people, you’ll always have top names as speakers, and you’ll be right up to date on everything to do with information technology.
After the excellent debate comes the part I like best: the Networking.
Last Thursday February 2009
What’s more, once you’ve been to 3 or 4 Thursdays you’ve already made good friends and loyal regulars such as Jaime Estévez, Wilhem Lappe, Lucas, Sebas Muriel, Jan Hinrichs, Antonio Fumero, Pablo Burgueño, Miki and so on.
It’s one of those events that always surprises you; it’s now nearing its 100th edition and I intend to stay loyal to it. The event has also travelled to Málaga and Buenos Aires on occasion.
The last one I went to was at BBVA’s Innovation Centre, where we all watched open-mouthed as they demonstrated what can be done with Augmented Reality.
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