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The
world's largest
series of conferences for the
hosting and cloud service provider
industry - WorldHostingDays
(WHD) - will be coming to the United
States for the first time next week.
The inaugural WHD.usa
event will officially be held Tuesday
and Wednesday (May 19-20, 2015)
at Pennsylvania's 7Springs
Ski & Mountain Resort
(about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh),
but there will be plenty of activity
starting Monday, including a
pre-show Come2gether
Party sponsored by cPanel
Monday evening.
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.CLUB,
eNom, Key-Systems, Radix
and Sedo are also among the
conference sponsors. Many other domain
businesses will have representatives
there to take advantage of the many
networking opportunities a show that
is expected to draw over 800 attendees
from around the world will present.
Some of those going include Susan
Lawrence and Trent Tucker
from Minds + Machines, Kathy
Nielsen from the .green
registry, attorney Jason Schaeffer
from ESQWire.com (representing
.tube), Ken Hansen from the
.co.com registry, Frank Michlick from
DomainCocoon.com and DomainNamesNews.com
and AndrewAllemann from
DomainNameWire.com.
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I'll
also be there to cover it all for
you and am looking forward to
seeing how a major hosting
conference compares to our
primary shows in the domain
world. One thing I've already
noticed from the agenda, is
there are a lot more daytime
networking activities in leisure
settings than we see on
our side of the fence.
For
example, during lunchtime each
day any attendee can
join others on the alpine
slide, a scenic chairlift
ride, a Segway
experience or bowling.
On Wednesday afternoon there
will be larger scale organized
events including a golf
tournament, zip line
rides and sporting clays target
shooting (I expect to
limit my shooting that day to
photographs!) |
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Social
activities heat up even more at night.
In addition to the pre-show party
Monday night, day one Tuesday will
conclude with the 7pm ConneXion
Party sponsored by Weebly where,
in addition to live entertainment,
guests can try their hand at
mechanical bull riding! On closing
night Wednesday, there will also be a
special event for A-level VIP
attendees - an exclusive 4-course
Executive Dinner at the Timberstone
that gets underway at 7pm.
I
touched on the extremely busy and
information packed business
agenda in previous
posts. By presenting so many high
profile speakers, expert panel
discussions and great social
events across just 2-3 days on the
calendar, WHD.usa is obviously determined
to leave a good and long lasting
impression on attendees in this first
visit to America. We'll tell you all
about it daily in this section
starting Monday.
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