If it is September, must be conference season

I am missing 5 events this month I had penciled on my calendar. Bad planning by my wife and my clients -)

Sep 5-7 Office 2.0 Ismael builds on the conference he launched last year which showcases various productivity, collaboration and mobility trends. Several EIs are active in the conference planning and presentation.

Sep 9-11 Ketera Connect Would have been nice to catch up with Farley Blackman, comfortable in any continent around the world, and someone who blends Six Sigma (his GE pedigree) with global sourcing (his BP job) disciplines. And fellow EI Jason Busch. But my biggest disappointment is missing Gauthier Vasseur, former controller of Remy Martin discuss cognac and business intelligence - in that order -)

Sep 17-19 salesforce.com Dreamforce - They say Marc Benioff has a big ego - but he is man enough to share his stage with George Lucas and with industry leaders like John Chambers, Dave Duffield, and Bruce Chizen. And Nick Carr will presumably talk about his next book.

Sep 18-19 SAP's A1S Briefing While the invitation was a bit light on details, this event promises more details on SAP's SaaS plans than they shared at Sapphire earlier in year.

Sep 25-27 MIT Technology Review Conference. I would have picked up a year's worth of ideas for my New Florence innovation blog.

The way my travel looks, the best conference I have a shot at making this month is this. Of course, I could always go to Gartner Symposium in October. Somehow, though, Steve Ballmer and Michael Dell keynotes make it look pretty 1.0.

Note to self: Take September off next year for conferences. And July in Tuscany. And March for Spring training.

Actually, make September start in last week in August. Got to finally do Burning Man.