On My Way to The Economist CMO Conference

I'm in the process of getting ready to leave Monday for the 5th Annual Economist CMO Conference in New York City. This will be my second time attending this conference. I attended briefly two years ago to see a speaker from Motorola. To be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the quality of the presentations that first time around.

I'm going back again for a couple of reasons. First, I haven't been to NYC in almost nine months and I need a fix of the city life. Second, I've been working non-stop on client assignments since early November and it's time to get my head out of the sand and find out what else is going on. I'm really hoping to meet some great new people and to get my creative juices burning again.

However, there already is one rant I have about this conference. I don't get their pricing model. They are charging $500.00 bucks MORE for "representatives of business service companies". The conference folks were nice enought to waive the late fee and give me a slight discount when I complained about this odd two-tiered pricing scheme. I just hope the conference is worth the time and $$.

I'll keep you posted. Julie