One of the world’s biggest technology conferences will be a virtual event in January due to the coronavirus pandemic, a reversal from May when organizers said it would go on as a smaller gathering in Las Vegas.
Read MoreInternet Summit 16 begins Wednesday November 16th in Raleigh. Billed as the “Definitive Digital Gathering” and now in its ninth year, IS16, as it’s known, brings digital, marketing, and tech speakers from across the nation for two days of in-depth content and networking. I remember the very first Internet Summit. Launched in 2008, this annual conference has become one of the largest self-contained events to hit Raleigh every year. It regularly brings in a few thousand people these days, and has evolved and transformed itself as much as the digital aspects of business that it covers. Internet Summit has...
Read MoreThe last time I honestly gave a thought to the future of open source was back when I was downloading code snippets to save myself time prototyping applications. That’s not to say I don’t think about open source, but I don’t actively debate it the way I used to. These days, open is just the way to do things, from running on AWS to coding in Ruby on Rails to the app distribution model to sharing information over social media. Open just is. For me. And by me I mean an entrepreneur. To a lot of people, open is...
Read MoreI’ve heard the words “South by Southeast” more than a few times over the last 12 months, and there have been overtones made to ExitEvent more than a few times to play a role in a big fat event of that nature. The thing is, it’s kinda-sorta already happening, and ExitEvent is kicking it off November 5th. That’s the night our entrepreneur-and-investor-only Startup Social gloriously returns to Durham. We’re the dirty, speakeasy-style opening act. It’s a Monday, and on Tuesday the people who bring you Internet Summit, the largest digital conferernce in the Southeast, kick off a new conference...
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