CTIA Super Mobility 2014 Day Three

The closing day was a bit subdued.  I felt everyone was completely gassed after two long days and whatever else might have been going on around Las Vegas in the evenings.

Nothing of interest for me in the sessions or keynote but I had a number of booths still on my list so it was back at it for me on the 11th.

Here is your blogger host outside of the exhibit floor:

Yeap.  Everyone had about had enough by this point in the afternoon on Day Three.  These workers were playing around quite a bit.

The first booth I saw breaking down was 123EWireless and I captured the moment.

A quick shout out to those who were so nice and helpful at the greeting to the VIP Club, and I was out the door to begin my journey back home early the next morning.

Great event overall.  I made a number of excellent business connections that may help my efforts going forward and saw a number of great and informative speakers and interactive sessions.

If it is mobile, and it isn't named Apple, it is here.

Back to my regularly scheduled blog next week.

J.W. Gant

CTIA Super Mobility 2014 Day Two

I'm a bit late in my writing.  I still haven't written anything for Day Two.

Here goes.

This was the biggest day of the event, and writing this after Day Three has ended I can state that absolutely.

Just an enormous amount going on.

My day started with the 9am Keynote that was a set of speakers from various industries.  AT&T led it all off with a panel.

The day continued on the exhibit floor with a ridiculous amount of activity.  Here are a couple shots from the floor.

Cool car

Miss your blackberry?  Plenty of people do and these folks have a solution for you.

I was able to sit in on a number of excellent interactive sessions and presentations including a focus on women in mobile and a great job by Adam Singer of Google's Analytics.

Here is a view outside the keynote room:

One of the better conversations I had was with Larry Irving, a 7 year Assistance Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton.

Excellent day.

J.W. Gant

CTIA Super Mobility 2014 Day One

Well, the enormous news by Apple showed how big they are.  We may not see huge news like that at this year's Super Mobility Conference but it is still an amazing event.

I've captured just a bit for you.

First, what is the CTIA?

http://www.ctia.org/

The wireless mobility conference to end all conferences.  This brings together all the categories around mobile including the actual cell tower providers, cell phone repair, accessories, etc. etc. etc.  Huge.

The speakers are pretty tremendous this year and come from most of the major players, other than Apple.

Here is Twitter with CNBC at the afternoon keynote:

I'll have quite a bit more to write about later this week but for now I want to share the coolest charging station I've ever seen.

These are little, personalized, lockers for your phone to charge in.  Simply insert your phone in to an empty locker, connect the charger, close the door and enter any 4 digit code.  Walk away.  Come back later and re-enter your code to access the locker and retrieve your phone.  Brilliant.

Now if they could just improve batteries so we wouldn't need cool lockers like this!

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant