On Tuesday night, before the first conference networking event, I was sitting in the lobby of my hotel. I started up a conversation with a gentleman that was also staying at this hotel. I open the conversation by asking him if he was here for the T+L conference. Little did I know that there were at least 3 conferences running at the same time. As we talked I discovered this man was an executive for a major cable provider. His responsibility was the technical side of his cable company.
We discussed operations, dilemmas of scale, economics of distribution and also video delivery over IP. I mentioned in the discussion that I wanted to start supplying my districts video assets over the network. He gave me a contact of a company that are developing technologies in that area. He even gave me permission to drop his name when I contact the company. Even though we are here to network among each other you will never know who you will meet when you attend NSBA T+L
Nice post. I recall that being one of the points of the first Keynote. Make those connections to outside of education entities that will help us look outside the box and become better “producers”. I am going to start working with the local oil companies to bring in their technologies to our students.