As Seattleites planning to celebrate NetIP’s 20th anniversary at an exclusive conference in our dear hometowm, we pondered various ways to build hype/promote our unique metropolitan. “Hang an obnoxious banner from the Space Needle?” No. “What about getting Ichiro Suzuki to replace his Mariners’ hat with a NetIP one?” Not gonna happen. So we went back to the drawing board, outlining the benefits of holding said conference in our city. What we found was astounding, things we’d never thought of, things we realized set the Northwest corner of the country apart from everywhere else.
Many refer to Seattle as being ‘metronatural’, the perfect blend of city and nature. We prefer to think of Seattle in the summertime as the perfect mix of temperature and scenery. While most parts of the country are slogging through the dog days of summer, Seattle is graced with clear skies and temperatures hovering in the pleasant mid-70s. This pleasant setting extends to the balance of metro and environment, as Seattleites don’t just respect the environment, we embrace it. Call us green, call us tree-huggers, we love Mother Nature. This is another element we’ve melded into the conference, as we’ve made sure this conference is not just informative, but sustainable. The hotel we’ve booked for our conference will employ a number of green practices, but specifically less paper being used for materials (as most collateral will be electronic).
Seattle in August is not just a destination, but an experience – a locale we encourage you arrive early to and leave late. Bordered on three sides by breathtaking water views (Puget Sound to the West, Lake Washington to the East, Salmon Bay and Lake Union to the North), it’s hard to get bored with the landscape of our town. Known for being extremely tourist-friendly, Seattle boasts a number of ‘must-sees’ within its city limits, from the infamous Space Needle and Pike Place Market to lesser-known landmarks such as the Experience Music Project and Queen Anne Hill. If one chooses to venture outside of the city, to the east one can find Leavenworth (a traditional Bavarian village), and to the north, the 2010 Winter Olympics host, Vancouver, BC.
As the first NetIP conference to be held on the west coast in over 10 years, this year’s event, “unique.by.nature”, promises to be the most memorable. Would you expect any less from a conference held near the home of Starbucks, Nordstorm, Amazon (Seattle), Microsoft and Nintendo (Redmond), and T-Mobile (Bellevue)? The conference agenda is also set to include the topics of: sustainability (a Seattle favorite), the future of technology, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and much, much more. This year, our Conference Chairs are also adding a new type of session–the “Interactive Skill Building Workshop”–with the promise that attendees leave the session with a new life skill.
This conference pledges to be Unique by Nature – due to the organization (NetIP), the host city (Seattle), and the mix of people that’ll make this conference NetIP’s best ever. This is an EXCLUSIVE CONFERENCE, so attendance will be limited to the first 500 which sign up (last year’s conference hosted over 1000 attendees). Stay tuned for more conference details at www.netipconference.org, and drop us a line at conferenceinfo@netip.org.
See you August 20th,
NetIP Conference Team
conferenceinfo@netip.org
www.netipconference.org
