"While the lunch was served, the company CEO, Jack Hidary, went around the room interviewing various business leaders about their experience working with SandboxAQ’s products. Without exception, every person - none of which they ever actually described - were “game-changing” or “transformational” or “shifting the paradigm.”"
Have "Larry Summers, Deloitte’s CEO, Accenture’s CEO, EY’s CEO, JP Morgan Assset Management Chair, the former NSA Director" also spoken about their products?
Hey Derek, this was great. I chucked at this bit "I find this somewhere between funny and ridiculous. You end up having meetings and attending panels in spaces that, for the other 51 weeks of the year, are ski rental shops".
Derek, Glad you went as I told you...everyone needs to go once. I have gone several times but eventually could not stand it anymore. Sounds like you got there more rapidly. Other than the networking (same reason people go to some of the big tech conferences in the US) it has little to recommend it. But great article!
Probably is as simple as who pays the most to be "interviewed" or to be the "main" or whatever speaker/presenter/panelist/etc.
Re: The Snake Oil & Societal Disconnect
"I will end with the most negative takeaways I had from the week of WEF. To begin, the amount of snake oil and bovine excrement that is presented."
"Another strange phenomenon I noticed was the randomness of the companies and people presenting."
"But then you’d get interviews at the exclusive events with companies that were from a completely different league. "
"While the lunch was served, the company CEO, Jack Hidary, went around the room interviewing various business leaders about their experience working with SandboxAQ’s products. Without exception, every person - none of which they ever actually described - were “game-changing” or “transformational” or “shifting the paradigm.”"
Have "Larry Summers, Deloitte’s CEO, Accenture’s CEO, EY’s CEO, JP Morgan Assset Management Chair, the former NSA Director" also spoken about their products?
Hey Derek, this was great. I chucked at this bit "I find this somewhere between funny and ridiculous. You end up having meetings and attending panels in spaces that, for the other 51 weeks of the year, are ski rental shops".
Derek, Glad you went as I told you...everyone needs to go once. I have gone several times but eventually could not stand it anymore. Sounds like you got there more rapidly. Other than the networking (same reason people go to some of the big tech conferences in the US) it has little to recommend it. But great article!