APPNATION CONF – The Quick and Dirty
17 Sep
I had the honor of attending the first ever AppNation conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco this past Monday and Tuesday, September 13th and 14th, and wow! This is the first industry conference that I went into not having a great deal of specialized knowledge on the topic and boy did I learn a lot!
My only disappointment was the large percentage of attendees that were developers and investors versus agency folk, but I suppose in hindsight, when an industry is still so fledgling it makes sense for an event like this to also serve as a matchmaking opportunity for investors and developers to find one another to help spark further innovation. Just would have been nice for there to be a little more of an agency perspective represented. But overall a great conference, and I expect that it will be one that grows significantly more each year.
After reviewing my 30 pages of notes in an attempt to extract the most poignant information, here is the quick summary I came up with.
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I owe the inspiration of this post to the following quotes:
This is just a great little story I want to keep spreading the word on.
We were having a wonderful visit with my grandparents just recently. They are really our favorite people – happy, vibrant, smart – both in life choices and overall intellect. Though they could retire and live off of grandpa’s fireman pension and their social security, they choose to continue to both work so that they can live comfortably, affording the extra luxuries that they only now are able to spoil themselves with.