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We
will be spending most of
the day
Thursday
en route to Fort Lauderdale
for the inaugural edition of THE
Domain Conference that
gets underway with Pre-Show Cabana
Networking Saturday morning
(Sept. 26) at the Hyatt Regency
Pier 66 Hotel. Diana and I are
heading down a day early so I can
prepare for a couple of onstage
interviews I will be doing Friday
for Jodi Chamberlain at her
big Womens
Meetup for area
businesswomen that will run at the
same hotel through Saturday (one of
those interviews will be a fireside
chat with Neustar Vice
President and longtime friend Lori
Anne Wardi).
THE
Domain Conference's cabana
networking for early birds will
continue all day Sunday while
a unique day-long DOMAINfest
at THE Domain Conference event
will be going on simultaneously
indoors. DOMAINfest and NamesCon
Co-Founder Jothan Frakes has
put together an ambitious program
for Sunday that will
make DOMAINfest a perfect prelude to
THE Domain Conference (which
officially opens with a 7pm
Welcome Party Sunday evening,
followed by business days Monday and
Tuesday then a Farewell Breakfast
Wednesday morning.
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The
Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel in Fort
Lauderdale where THE Domain
Conference will get underway
this weekend and run through
Wednesday morning (Sept. 30, 2015).
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Jothan
Frakes |
Today
I got some additional
information from Jothan
about this special
DOMAINfest event. He told
me, "This
DOMAINfest kicks off the
launch of a new
conference series and
what I would call an
incredible collaborative
approach to conferences.
We're doing something new
and innovative which is to
focus on a specific topic
around the Latin American
market which is rich
with opportunity. We will
have 12 different micro
networking sessions that
are built around themes.
These micro topic networking
sessions are designed to
attract people who are
interested in talking about something
specific and doing it at
the front end of the
conference so that
like-minded individuals or
service providers can
connect and have the balance
of the show to really build
the relationships and
discussions."
"The
sessions are called topic
grind and you can find
sessions on things like
brokering domains,
parking, WordPress and other
industry related topics. The
sessions will be led by
recognized leaders from the
industry and will be an hour
long so people can still
enjoy the cabana networking
by the pool that THE Domain
Conference is offering on
Sunday - but it sets
the tone for the whole
week and a great conference
here in Fort
Lauderdale!" |
Conference
organizers Howard, Barbara and
Ray Neu tell me they are very
excited about the number and quality
of domain investors and service
providers who have signed up for
their first show after a decade
spent co-producing the pioneering
T..R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences. I
will, of course have daily photos
and highlights in this column
from all of the activities in Fort
Lauderdale starting Friday and
continuing all the way through the
conclusion of THE Domain Conference
next week.
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