Wireless Executive Recruiter

The previous CTIA’s & 3GSM hold some mighty good memories. Whether it is eating a huge crab at a swanky San Francisco Restaurant. Playing Texas Hold ‘em at the Hands on Mobile party, Or hitting the “Coyote Ugly like bar” in Orlando, drinking til 4AM & eating Seven Eleven food with the execs at a major media company (the name was removed to protect the not-so innocent).

Eating a huge crab at a Swanky San Fran Restuarant

But still I have to say the best party I attended was the one for VeriSign that had a group of Retro performers including Vanilla Ice, The Sugar Hill Gang, Tiffany and Thomas Dolby. Each artist played two songs. They did a contest as to who played the best. The way you voted was to text message your vote & it would read live on a giant tote board. Vanilla Ice won, but I think The Sugar Hill Gang kicked his butt personally.

3GSM Entrance

Definitely the Grand Daddy of all the wireless conferences is 3GSM in Barcelona Spain. I was fortunate enough to travel there this past year. If you can handle the 10 hour flight to Switzerland and the 2 hour connecting flight to Barcelona it is definitely worth your while.

We were not tapped in to the party scene very well there so we found our own night life. But the show was overwhelming. It was about 4 times the size of Vegas & where as at CTIA to meet with a CEO of a company you had to have something prearranged, here it was not unusual for C-Level execs just hanging out at the booths. I know because we met several of them from our clients & new potential clients.

A funny looking water fountain we found in our hotel bathroom in France

To cap things off we went to Paris France for a day before we flew home. For only being there a day, I think we did pretty well in taking in the sights. We started at the Eiffel tower of course. Then took a ride on the River Seine which runs all through the heart of Paris. The Architecture is unbelievable & even the Bridges are works of art. We capped the night off taking walk on the on the famed avenue Champs Élysées at Midnight which was still very busy.

We met a very sociable fellow who wanted to take us to a hot nightclub he could get us in for free at. But after further discovery we found out cost 30 euro a drink with a two drink minimum and the girls were very friendly. We opted out of that.

Steve Eddington looking very French

Coming back from France back to Switzerland we had a very unique flying experience. The plane reminded me of a school bus with wings. It had seats that were similar to lawn chairs bolted to the cabin.

All the seats were the same & you were not allowed to have more than one bag because of the weight. 129 of us were all slammed in together. The way the separated first class from coach was that coach got a newspaper. No Joke!

Well that’s all for the previous Wireless conferences. I look forward to writing the newest blog on CTIA when I return from San Fran in a couple of weeks. Can’t wait to go!!!