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It’s been a full month, with travel to five different industry events over four weeks. On a business level, the Future of Work Expo was closest to home, as this is my sixth year as conference Chair, and the event is coming into its own nicely.

If you’ve never attended, it’s part of TMCnet’s flagship ITExpo, which has been running as long as I’ve been an analyst - 20+ years - and is usually during the second week of February in Ft. Lauderdale. I’ve finally exhaled from the rush of getting the programming and speaker roster in place, after which, the event largely runs itself.

There’s plenty of time to plan for next year’s edition, and you can reach out any time if interested in speaking or sponsoring. For a sense of what you missed, this blog post is a photo recap - mostly mine, but some are from others. Aside from details on the speakers, I won’t be adding any commentary. For that, you can peruse my LinkedIn posts during the event - highlights below - as well as check out the March edition of my Watch This Space podcast, which is scheduled to run on March 5.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarnoldassociates_itexpo-activity-7166093120353382401-913S?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarnoldassociates_what-is-the-key-to-making-hybrid-work-work-activity-7163941411606704128-0CLH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarnoldassociates_snomattheshow-newsreel-activity-7163936981603872768-sAr7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarnoldassociates_futureofwork-activity-7163925259056873473-UIGD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarnoldassociates_ftlauderdale-it-futureofwork-activity-7163288318560944128-NByV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Below - day 1 agenda, Todd Knapp from Envision, Arturo Guzman from HCLTech

Future of Workspace session, with Chris Fine moderating - Alex Lopez from Cisco, Gentry Long from Industrious, Tomi Teikko from Haltian, and Blima Ehrenetrau from The Designers Group; Cybersec panel with Ryan Worobel from LogicMonitor, Richard Luna from Protected Harbor, Brett Shockley from Journey AI; Collaboration from Anywhere panel - Todd Knapp from Envision, Tonny Siemons from Enreach, Luiz Domingos from Mitel and Steve Forcum from SIPPIO

Role of Endpoints panel - moderated by David Danto, with Jeff Kubick from Poly/HP, Gideon Adler from CDW, Vern Fernandez from Jabra, and Brian Bradbrook from Snom; Role of IT panel - moderated by Glenn Goldberg, with Richard Luna from Protected Harbor, David Jodoin from Stackyon, and Gary Coben from Evolve IP; AI Evolution - LLMs panel - with Hardy Myers from Cognigy, Frank Fawzi from IntelePeer, Kevin Lee from NICE, and Alex Diedrich from Sprinklr

AI and Employee Engagement panel, moderated by Tomi Teikko, with Hardy Myers from Cognigy, John Chmoj from Verint, Jay Patel from Avaya, and Joe Markwith from CDW; Contact Center and FOW panel - with Rob McDougall from Upstream Works, Tod Chisholm from IFT, Khurum Shafi from Twilio, and Michael Roche from Five9; post-panel photo with Mitel - Luiz Domingos and Dave Clardy

Long-time colleague and fellow podcaster Doug Green, Apple “booth” on the show floor, and an even longer-time colleague who does it all, Carl Ford

Finale session on Evolving Role of Organizations - with Juan Betancourt from Humantelligence, Chris Fine, Dave Fox from Focus GTS and Jeff Pulver; a trio of SCTC members - Carmelo Cappuzzello, myself, and Vern Fernandez; with Bill Radford from Cisco