Interop

In my previous life as a reporter I've seen many keynote speeches and have sat in the audience for countless speeches, good ones and bad ones. At one point I burned Bill Gates in a piece on his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas because he didn't announce anything new. (He didn't he was on his "magic of software" tour and repeated things Microsoft had been saying for months.)

Now I am closely involved in creating keynotes. McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt spoke at Interop in Las Vegas on April 30 and I was there as part of his entourage. This time I was one of the people who went back stage with the speaker and one of the people who made sure the presentation was locked and loaded before the presenter went up on stage. Feedback on the keynote was mostly good, though there will always be critics.

More Interop pictures are available on Flickr.

(After his keynote, DeWalt met with TechWeb and did a Q&A with CRN.)