There’s no better way to discuss technology than to get 6 CTO’s together on a windy New York City Monday night with some pizza and a few imports. Last night’s Morpho Mind Bar event was a triple-double-click above par.
The CTO of an online food delivery service arrived first, which I believe is part of their on-time delivery strategy. The others started blowing in soon after, greeted by a refreshing beverage and the Morpho Team. Side discussions began naturally between our attendees; platforms & frameworks, PHP & .NET, Ruby on Rails & Drupal, iPhone & Android, lack of females in the tech world & the Super Bowl. It was pure face-to-face interaction, human contact… and not one computer was in the room (except for the Smartphones, and oh yeah, the big-screen LCD shooting out sounds from Pandora). The conversations grew organically, the attendees were comfortable yet fully engaged – it was beautiful. How often can you find a group of tech heads enjoying themselves without a ratio of 2.45 monitors to every person in the room?
Our next event will be another invitational with a different small group of technology professionals. We will only invite a max of 10 people so we can continue keeping our event small and intimate. It allows for everyone to talk to one another, get involved in conversation about a topic that each attendee has in common, and satisfy their stomachs after a long day of work. We’re definitely looking forward to the next one.
Great thanks to our attendants for making this a successful event. Here’s some feedback from our attendees:
“I thought it was a great forum for technologists that as more and more people jump on can only get better. Kind of nice having it not driven by any one agenda as folks were free to talk about real challenges rather than what Information Week would like us to be talking about.”
“I learned…
That I have overestimated the mindshare/penetration of Rails
That I have underestimated the mindshare/penetration of mobile apps
That I should probably go to more events like this one.”
“I learned about a few useful services I didn’t know existed before – not just the businesses represented, but about a few third parties that could help our business. Also got some interesting insight into the sorts of challenges that other companies are having and how they overcome them.”