Thanks for the comment (and the earlier email) – you’re never going to keep everybody happy at a conference like this , but I thought it was one of the better one’s I’ve attended.

I’ll repeat some of the remarks I made to your EI colleagues on why I was impressed with the event

1) I didn’t expect to see any mainstream organisation running anything to do with Web 2.0 for at least another 6 months.

2) I was surprised / impressed by the quality of the particular speakers choosen / who agreed to speak. Given that EI deals with the Oracles / Microsofts /Dells the easy route would have been just to get somebody from that direction. Instead, time was taken to dig out people with good and relevant things to say.

Paul

Glad to read your comment on the O’Reilly OnJava blog. We like to hear the good and the bad and that’s why I’m writing. It would be good to get a push in the right direction regarding who, exactly, you would like to see in future conferences and what kind of mix you think would be suitable to creating a good atmosphere to help entrepreneurs get involved. This conference was organised to respond to the criticism that companies don’t understand what funding options and exit routes are available and are not able to get face time with non-Irish angels/VCs. The next conference will be guided by the larger community that particpated at this conference and I value your input.

Thanks,
Ben

Thanks for the detailed write-up. I had hoped to meet up at the event – networking was good, but good be better

Look forward to chatting soon – once i get back from Boston

regards
Fergus