Monday, April 30, 2018

Tech conferences have a plastic problem


Trade shows are great fun. The real joy, however, isn’t found in the talks and roundtables, but in the promotional swag doled out by company representatives. Last week, I went to the IP Expo Manchester security conference, where I spent about two hours wandering through the event’s endless stalls, and emerged with a totebag literally heaving with branded goodies. If you’ve been to one of these events before, you’ll how how it is: some stuff is genuinely cool, while much is crap, and inevitably destined for a landfill. If you’re curious, here’s what I came back with: Two genuinely nice…

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