Lunch@ Events – Trade Show Press and Innovator Events

Connected Traveler Technology Showcase

Our newest event will take place tomorrow in San Francisco.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase, a media-only showcase of the latest travel tech products, apps and services will feature demonstrations by developers of tech-savvy apps, gadgets, and technologies.  Open to international travel reporters and San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s technology, feature, business and broadcast media, The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase and takes place during the week of Pow Wow, the travel industry’s premier international conference in North America.

We realized that there are plenty of technology trade shows that cater to tech media, but none bring the wealth of products and innovative technologies to travel press. The travel press includes a large audience of reporters who don’t go to tech trade shows but who are always in search of information that can improve their readers’ travel experience.

Notebooks, tablets, apps, GPS devices, cameras, mobile storage, and cloud-based solutions, are becoming an integral part of most road warriors’ lives.  In addition to the necessities, there are many products that make traveling safer, more enjoyable and create smarter travelers.

Sponsors include:  GE Digital Cameras, Gogobot, GoSmart, HP,  INRIX Traffic, Ken Kobré Photography-The Lightscoop, Line2, Liquid Image, Mobile Monitor Technologies, Plantronics, Proposal Software, Schedulicity, SpotWorld, SugarSync, TeleNav, Traxxit Technologies, Verizon Wireless, Visual Travel Tours, VIA, and Western Digital.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is a tabletop demo event based on 20+ years of similar successful media events and product showcases,  during Siggraph, and E3 and Lunch at Piero’s during COMDEX and CES.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is open only for working travel and technology writers.  Video will be featured at www.patmeier.com and www.connectedtraveler.com after the show.  For more information, please visit: www.patmeier.com/connectedtravelershow.html or call +1415.389.1700.

Future Connected Traveler events will be scheduled for Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York.

LoJack for Laptops by Absolute Software is a software-based theft recovery and data security solution uses key features like data delete, device freeze and geolocation to help consumers track, locate and recover their devices. Absolute Software Vice President – Consumer Business, Mark Grace, discusses the vulnerability of a growing number of mobile devices and describes the team and technologies that help to recover 3 out of 4 stolen laptops on more than 60 countries.  Absolute Software is a sponsor of the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES.   http://www.absolute.com

Lunch at Piero's Press Event During CES 2011

It’s kind of like a wedding.  Months of preparation, lots of great dialogue, pictures, video, people from all over the world, and then, poof! it’s done.  At least for this year.  Lunch at Piero’s 2011 was a fabulous nexus of innovators and reporters, analysts and video crews.  Media joined us from the Las Vegas Convention Center across the street to see apps, mobile devices, gadgets, tablets, software, and some technologies that you will only see in next generation entertainment and PC devices.  Find out all about our sponsors here.  Thank you to everyone who joined us, both sponsors and editorial teams.  Videos and photo album will be posted here.  But for now, I’m taking a couple of days off.  See you here next week.