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p2pnet.net News:- The November 2004 COMDEX has been cancelled so the event can undergo a major overhaul.
Once one of the world’s largest, and most-looked-forward-to, computer-industry trade shows, it’s being “postponed” so it can be reshaped. A COMDEX Advisory Board has been set up to determine how COMDEX can, “best meet the future needs of the industry,” says the show’s website here.
A year ago MediaLive acquired the COMDEX brand and began repositioning it as a, “focused, business-to-business IT event” and, “While we could still run a profitable COMDEX this year, it does not benefit the industry to do so without broader support of the leading technology companies,” says president and and ceo Robert W. Priest-Heck.
“In order to give the Advisory Board the time and opportunity necessary to partake in the redesign of COMDEX, we thought it best to postpone this year’s show.”
MediaLive says it’s “received commitments” to the aAdvisory board from: John Volkmann, vp, strategic communications, AMD; George Paolini, vp, general manager of developer tools, Borland Software; Mark Fredrickson, vp corporate communications, EMC; Timothy J. Curran, ceo, Global Technology Distribution Council; Jeff Singsaas, director of events, Microsoft Corp; Robert Shimp, vp technology marketing, Oracle Corp; and Peter Weedfald, senior vp, strategic marketing and new media, Samsung Electronics.
Executives from Cisco, Dell and Intel have also agreed to join the board and, “invitations have been extended to other industry leading companies,” adds MediaLive.
June 24th, 2004 at 8:36 pm
Since the U.S. has become a technology backwater, the Comdex 2005 exposition should be moved to India. That is where the technology giants are placing their bets.
June 24th, 2004 at 8:46 pm
Comdex must still retain the “Wow” factor for the consumer tie-in industry………..going 100% business-to-business is a mistake.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:09 pm
Change the name to Spandex………bunch of wosses.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:37 pm
Didn’t you have 12-16 months to prepare for this? If you really cared about the industry you would have carried the convention. Furthermore had you provided a log on page, I would have been happy to logon, but since you didn’t, I am also an anonymous coward.