Pop!Tech

Well, another Pop!Tech has come and gone. P!T is one of the great “brain candy” conferences…loosely focused on the intersection of technology and society. Great speakers, great ideas…really a remarkable way to spend a few days and a great way to get inspired for another year about what is and will be. I have been involved in it for years now and am personally committed to it as it was there, four years ago, that I met my wife. My best (wo)man was the woman Suzanne was talking to at P!T when I interrupted them (it was my seeking her out to apologize that led to…well…marriage).

It is a widely dysfunctional organization…which is part of its charm. Too many brilliant, driven and passionate people in one place. Watching our executive director “manage” the group always makes me think of cat herding. The beauty of the organization is, that despite the dysfunction (and/or malfunction), we manage to put on one exceptional conference after another. There are not many conferences where you have the leaders of major tech companies, preeminent scholars, librarians and high school students (and everything in between) together and exploring what it means to be human in, if you will, the digital age. Just wonderful.