Diamond Exchange Summit

I am currently in Naples, Florida at the Diamond Exchange Summit. Diamond is a management and technology consulting organization. The Diamond Exchange assembles an exclusive forum of select C-level executives to explore ways of winning in a marketplace tranformed by technology. It is made up of an influential group of Diamond Fellows, that during a number of events per year provide insight and moderate discussion with C-level executives from fortune 2000 companies.

I have been invited to speak on a panel about the future of Internet search and how it will impact business. The panel discussion is on Tuesday afternoon, but there are a number of other sessions that I will be able to attending during the weekend and Monday. Also on Saturday I will be meeting with the Diamond fellows to have a smaller scale discussion about the future of Internet Search.

The Diamond fellows include Gordon Bell (one of the inventors of DEC VAX), John Perry Barlow (lyricist for the Grateful Dead, founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Dan Bricklin (co-creator of Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet).

The conference is being held at the Naples Ritz Carlton Golf Resort, so hopefully I will have a chance on the weekend to get in a round of golf. This is supposed to be one of the best golf resorts in the country.

It is around 85 F here during the day with high humidity, so I don't know how much time I will want to spend outside.