Livin’ on the Edge

Whew…what a week! When you pack Chinese dragon dancers, contortionists, belly dancers, clam “chowda”, Harley motorcycles, polka music, and a handful of 5 hour energy drinks into 3 days and 2 (long) nights, can you really call it work?!

You can if you were one of the lucky 600+ to join Craig Wax and I in Boston last week for Akamai Edge.  Akamai employees, customers, and partners really embrace and live the mantra of “work hard, play hard”. We approve.

The event, attended by IT and marketing leadership from some of the world’s most admired brands, also happened to be the “launch party” for the newly minted strategic partnership between Invodo and Akamai. The rich content and conversations around how Akamai is intelligently streamlining the delivery of content over the internet further confirmed our suspicions that we’re partnered with the most scalable, secure, and speedy CDN in the world. Even more important, our shared clients have a complete solution for eCommerce video that provides their customers with the best shopping experience across all devices and geographic boundaries.

Here are a few of my other favorites from the show:

• Facebook on the massive computing effort required to bring the social web alive
• Harley Davidson on shifting company culture and processes to reinvigorate a declining brand
• Craig on 5 Hour Energy
• Some extremely smart Akamai people on the future of companion devices, “last mile” optimization, ecommerce video delivery, and monetizing media consumption on gaming consoles

It was a whirlwind of a week, and we want to say “thanks” to our friends at Akamai for including us. We hope next year in Vegas will be even bigger!

Cheers,

Keith Blankenship | Director of Business Development