Gartner Pulls Plug on Conferences
January 27, 2009
A happy quack who provide me with this link. The headline said it clearly: “Gartner Cancels Its Main Spring Conferences.” In a downturn, consulting firms often thrive. There’s executive RIF-ing. There’s organizational rationalization. There’s advice that makes those with jobs feel great. When an azure chip consulting firm chops its Spring Symposium ITxpos, I see financial challenges for the mid tier consulting firms looming. The article ended with this statement: “Earlier this month, Gartner made almost 120 staff redundant in the US.” I wonder if the author was rounding off or if Gartner fired one third of a wizard. If you want some color about conferences, click here. Since search and content processing plays a part in the programs of these events, some vendors will be stewing. I know that one search company has focused its marketing exclusively on the Gartner activities. Ouch. The question is, “What’s next in the search conference realignment?’ I just received an invitation to attend a free US government conference on “cyberinfrastructure capabilities for high performing distributed communities” and the “Fourth International Conference on Plats & Environmental Pollution”. Neither of these is in my sweet spot, but the conference spam keeps on coming. Yesterday I received three hardcopy invitations to a conference that pulled 60 people last year. Spam email is cheap. The dead tree promotions are expensive and inefficient methinks.
Stephen Arnold, January 27, 2009
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