The Future of Business Technology Conferences — Skift MeetingsIQ
Photo Credit: T.K. Rangarajan, corporate VP at Microsoft, discussed the mobile-first, cloud-first business landscape at last month's #BCTECH Summit. BC Innovation Council
Skift Take
We're seeing a rise of conference programming around digital technology designed to engage mass audiences beyond the business tech crowd. This is redefining how meeting planners should design their own meeting and event content, and how they should identify their attendees.
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The Future of Meetings + Events
It's not too difficult to predict the future. All you have to do is look at what kids are doing.
In 2013, Britain became the first G7 country to make it compulsory for all children aged 5-16 to learn how to code. At the #BCTECH Summit in Vancouver last month, Christy Clark, premier of British Columbia, said her province is going to follow suit. She explained that cities are hungry to keep and attract tech talent due to the rise of the digital platform economy, so school kids need to learn the digital language of the future.
The value of new conferences like BC Tech is they communicate the pulse of business technology to the masses. Do you know what APIs, IoT, open data, and civic tech are? Some of tod
