Why the acceleration of technological change can affect business
Author: Michelle Leonny
The pace of technological change is accelerating. Technology meetings and trade shows are unstoppable with better products, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is leading to a wealth of new options. Here are some of the trends in technology industry events and trade shows for 2011.
1. The web-hosted software facilitates the organization of events and extending the range of options, available
The Web has fueled many of the technological changes we have seen over the last decade. Times the packaged software for downloading through the Web and custom installers are gone forever now, the software is delivered via the Web. With the development of web services (communications standard that allows the joint operation of various programs), the exchange of data on attendees, exhibitors and members have never been so easy. Rich Internet applications endow these programs desktop functions. In short, Web hosting software for almost all aspects of the planning process cheaper and easier than ever. You can see here bookmarks to 1.400 events technology products divided into 40 categories, most of which are hosted on the Web.
2. Freeconomics. There are more and more software applications free or low cost for meetings and trade shows
another advantage of software distribution via the Web is that it is more efficient than packaged software for download over the Internet. With the plummeting prices of data storage and bandwidth, the cost of distributing software that resides on the Web is also declining. Today, there are many technology products for meetings and trade shows that are free (with advertising or suggestive selling as a business model) or substantially cheaper than in the past. For many examples, you can look here.
3. The explosion of mobile applications for meetings
Mobile applications are in! So far in 2010 have been sold hundreds of new mobile applications, which have benefited from meeting organizers, participants and exhibitors, and many more developing. Smart phones, or “micro-computers, are increasingly used for networking, exchange of contact information, ticketing / electronic tickets, orientation / location, interactive polls and surveys, as well as pocket exposure guidelines and to download notes from several courses and literature, among many other things. A new website keeps track of all these new mobile applications. In 2011, many of these tools are commonly used at conferences and meetings and many others appear on the market. Look here for many examples.
4. The location-based applications are now used in meetings
a very dynamic area of mobile application development is the location or geo. Sector in the context of conferences and meetings, attendees are business travelers who need information for orientation and networking applications based on location. Today there are many applications of this kind: Google Goggles (currently only available for Android phones) can help users identify attractions, restaurants and other businesses through the photographic recognition and augmented reality (a layer of information web superimposed on an image taken with a mobile, GPS-based geographic data).
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