A good source of data for those of you looking at this event should look here:
Social Networking Conference Delegate Distribution
There are some interesting graphs to view. 65% of the attendance are SN execs.
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Over 70% of the attendance are senior execs.
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While 83% of the people that come to the Miami event are from North America, a significant amount (13%) of European firms also attend:
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The San Francisco event that takes place in the summer will focus on Mobile Social Networking and Exterprise Social Networking. 87% of the attendance is form North America, 10% is from Europe and 3% from Asia:
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The European event which takes place in the fall (2008 held in London) gets 65% European attendance and 32% North American firms. We see competitive advantages realized from the European firms that have attended previous EU events:
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The Asian event, which takes place in the spring, attracts mostly local SN executives from the Far East (73%). This should be the largest market in the future for Social Networking. Only 19% of North American firms attend the Asian event an only 8% of European firms attend the event as well. Again, we have seen competitve advantages realized from those that attend this event:
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While I knew these numbers for years, it was interesting to see it in graphical format once I actually crunched the numbers.
Marc Lesnick
Conference Organzier
Social Networking Conference