Entrepreneurs: Marc @ Connect 2016
by Marc Dorneles
Cross Pacific Mobile Internet Conference, or Connect 2016, was a one day event January 14 in San Francisco.
It was co-hosted by Coinvent, Cheetah Mobile, and Silicon Valley Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum.
Connect featured a host of speakers that included executives from Yahoo, Skype, Google, Yandex, Twitter, Carnegie Mellon University Innovation Institute, Oxford Internet Institute and Al Gore.
The theme of the conference addressed how cultures connect from a technology innovation standpoint — a noble task.
There was a broad range of agenda topics, including:
- The impact of big data across international borders
- Tech society, and our future
- Future of big data (not the band, actual big data)
- What’s the big deal about big data
- How not to confuse big data with big papi or David Ortiz who incidentally, will have his last season of pro ball in 2016. (not actually a discussion on the agenda)
- End of Ad harassment
- Future of mobile search
- Vision for mobile presence
- Differences between Asian and United States in mobile internet era development
- Mobile Investment Outlook – Hottest Start-ups all VC’s chasing after
- Start-up Scale Up – Comparisons between US & Asia
- Crossing the Pacific to build new start-ups
- Investment and technology flows between China and the U.S.
If any of the above sounds of interest, make an effort to add future Connect events to your calendar.
Taken as a whole, the discussion topics are certainly relevant enough, but the format of the conference didn’t seem to include adequate networking time to connect thought leaders and those interested in further development into the respective spaces.
Not to mention, they ran out of goodie bags of conference centric accoutrements.
However, one thing swirling through the tsunami of information was clear.
The effect of the enormous amount of data readily available in the IoT (Internet of Things) is unfolding in a sprawling fashion, with and over an ocean of opportunity for the intrepid across the globe, who cast out into the deep.
