Elite Retreat 2008 Review

All attendees were picked up by a stretch limo.  We arrived to the brand new Intercontinental in style.  My room was on a high floor in the corner, we had beautiful views of San Francisco.

The night before things started we had a networking cocktail, I made a lot of friends and met a lot of nice people.  The small group atmosphere really adds to things.  I only had to remember 35 people :)

Day 1, We had an excellent breakfast provided.  Then we started the event.  They had a nice non-disclosure form we had to sign.  Everything shown was off the record and not to be released.  No live blogging was allowed.  No video was allowed.  No recording was allowed.  No pictures were allowed.

Excellent speakers.  Excellent.  Having things “off the record” really opened things up. We were sharing our ideas and suggestions pretty openly.  I am sure we all held something back–there really isn’t enough time to share everything :)

I can’t provide details on what we learned since we had a NDA and it was all off the record.  I can say that I will be going again and that I learned a lot, made some new friends and was very impressed by the whole event.

Jeremy and crew did an excellent job putting this event together.  They deserve a lot of credit for making this happen.

If you want to know more you can call me (contact me via the “Talk To Me” widget on the right and I can give you my phone number).  I won’t be sharing things that are under the NDA but I can expound on some things that I am not willing to put here in a public blog.

5 Responses to “Elite Retreat 2008 Review”

  1. I am so glad you dug it. It was an awesome event. I was there to help out and learned so much myself that I feel guilty. Thanks for what you added to the event. Great to have you!
    dk

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  4. John,

    It was great seeing you at the ER, hope to chat soon!

    Hope all is well…

    Best,
    Jeremy

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