Missing Speakers?
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When you get a bunch of high profile speakers together for a conference there is always a good chance that a one of them drops out at the last minute. This year there were two speakers who couldn’t make it: Michael Arrington and Felix Peterson.
Felix wrote (on May, 31 2007 16:41:47 GMT+02:00):
I will have to cancel on you guys. We have some severe problems with the new version that we launched yesterday and also my 9month old daughter has become sick. Don´t know what is going on there exactly but my wife is really concerned and I will have to get back to Berlin asap.
I hope his technical problems were fixed but most of all that his family is well.
Michael wrote (on May 31, 2007 21:38:27 GMT+02:00)
I am not going to be able to make it to Amsterdam. It’s a long story, but I have to fly back to san francisco this evening. I apologize for this, and I hope that you can find an appropriate replacement for me tomorrow
I don’t think Michale would cancel this if he didn’t have a good reason and I’m sure we will find out soon what his reason was.
Both promised to be there next year. Fortunately we had anticipated at least one speaker to not show up and had Kevin Rose from Digg.com as a back-up speaker. He appeared via iChat AV on a big screen.
Photo: Marjolijn Kamphuis
thenextweb2007
20070602 7:29 pm
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/05/were-planning-something-fun-for-the-next-web-june-1st-amsterdam
“# michael arrington Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
reboot! I forgot. Damn, I have to miss Amsterdam.”
This is the reason maby mike and felix didnt show up.
www.reboot.dk
so now please post NEXT WEB AWARDS WINNER
20070602 8:12 pm
Hmm. You could be right about Felix: http://flickr.com/photos/vannispen/525336978/
He doesn’t look very worried…
20070603 4:43 am
http://beta.plazes.com/whereis/felixpetersen
http://www.reboot.dk/artefact-684-en.html
20070603 1:09 pm
Would have been a good idea, if you guys would have announced this at the conference, as we were let completely in the dark about this. Or at least I was…
20070604 7:13 am
[…] Ob man das aber gleich sooooo breit treten muss … Ich weiß nicht! […]
20070604 8:15 am
[…] Here is what happened: Felix let us know on Thursday that he wouldn’t be able to make it to The Next Web Conference and with good reason: technical problems and a sick child. We tried to make up for that as best as we could but we were very disappointed. Then I received a message that Felix was actually at Reboot. Then we received a comment that we might have bluffed that those guys were coming over and that they never confirmed. This frustrated me more. To make sure everybody knew Felix had very good reasons for going home and not to Amsterdam I posted this, the actual messages from Michael and Felix. The actual quotes and not my interpretation. Then I received a comment on that post from someone with a link to his Plazes page and the Flickr photo at Reboot. […]
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