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Internet connectivity has been scarce so I am going to be brief, that and there are quite a few other bloggers covering the conference.

I missed the first half of the day, of which one person summed up as “the phone is dead, long live the phone.” So far the schedule is intense, but not the content. The stand-outs to me where Norman Lewis with Wireless Grids and Sam Aparicio with Angel.com.

Norm is a very passionate speaker, well know for his deep understanding of Millenials given his Baby Boomer status. The concept of a middleware layer to abstract devices from activities so that users can have a personal infrastructure is quite compelling. However, I have to wonder how his story goes with DLNA, which is primed by Intel who is one of their partners.

For me Sam was just as compelling. He has a lot of passion (he is a Spainard after all) for communication applications as an independant developer. He really put his heart on his sleeve, detailing the issues and really trying to envigorate those in the audience who also develop communications applications to do something. His presentation was not the normal death by powerpoint, instead choosing to just talk! (he was not reading for those who wondered why he was carrying a macbook air around on stage - that was a mind map diagram of the whole concept) Unfortunately it was late in the day and many left the room, missing the best rallying call so far for change. I hope to have more conversations with him on this vision in the future.

For those waiting for the femto conclusion… stay tuned.