SES Miami was an incredibly successful conference. Yes, it was only a rumored 500 or so attendees. Yes, there were just two tracks. Yes, the rooms didn’t hold over 125 or so people (and that was the larger of the two rooms). However, it’s been a long time since everywhere I looked, someone was having yet another relevation.

I arrived on Sunday in time to watch the World Cup finals and hang out with a new crowd I didn’t know much about. While sitting down listening to people I had never met (ok, so I knew about a dozen people on Sunday, but the other few dozen and I didn’t even always share the same language) my preconceived notions I had about Latin American were completely blown away. It’s a much more complex (and exciting) market that I had imagined.

It’s been a while since I went to a conference and just absorbed great information hour after hour. It’s not often that I see people walking around with glazed looks on their faces trying to integrate foreign thoughts, twists on traditional thoughts, and having ideas that they just want to rush home and implement. And then the next hour starts, and there appear a new set of ideas. While, if it were just the new conference attendees (there were a lot of first time SES attendees) that were having these thoughts, the conference would have been successful. The fact that these new ideas were even coming from the ‘experienced’ SES crowd is what made it incredibly successful.

Thanks to Nacho, Danny, and Incisive for putting on a very successful, enlightening show.

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