SES San Jose 2007

The original post was done without including my presentation but I will include it on this version. This was my 2nd or 3rd time speaking at SES and this time it was talking about the Internet industry in China. This post covers the event and some of the other things that happened in San Jose. Updates to the post are in (brackets).

So while I almost had a weekend at home, last minute at 4pm on the 17th I received calls from the management of Search Engine Strategies asking if I would fly out to San Jose and speak on the coming Monday about marketing and SEO in China (these types of calls happened a lot back in the day). I accepted and was on a flight the following evening. It was an interesting trip to San Jose as took me via Las Vegas (my once place I called home) where I was bumped from my flight, given a free night stay in Vegas and for all the “inconvenience” I was given a free flight voucher (as far as I remember this is the first time being bumped had ever happened to me).

San Jose was great, while SES was amazingly busy (I recall there was over 5,000 people that attended) and fun the highlights of the trip where going to The Tech museum and the 2007 Google Dance (was great to meet up with more of the Google team). If you get to San Jose you must take some time to go to The Tech museum as it just as so much geeky history and a lot of cool hands on exhibits (also if you can get out to Mountain View and visit the Google campus, not much hands on but still very geeky and cool).

After the week in San Jose and all the other flying around it sure was nice to get back home to Guelph (the city I was living in at the time) and promise to get a bunch more posts out these coming months talking about all the great restaurants, outings and things keeping me busy in Guelph (my first blog was actually more focused on the city then on anything else).

EVERYTHING BELOW WAS ADDED AS AN UPDATE:

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