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Sourcing Conferences. SourceCon 2007 and 2008

For those who attended SourceCon in the past two years, what was the SourceCon like? Could you please share what the highlights were? I was not able to attend and am going to the next one. From what I hear those were great events.

Thanks,
Irina

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Permalink Reply by Suzy Tonini on October 14, 2009 at 9:30am

Sourcecon 2007 (the 1st one) was a ton of fun- I got to meet my Deloitte Sourcing Team, my boss Rob McIntosh, people I had known forever in Cyberspace like Shally Steckerl, Glenn Gutmacher, Eric Jaquith, Russ Moon, Jim Stroud, Rithesh Nair, Tim O'Connor, Moises lopez and of course, ResearchGoddess, Amybeth Hale.
My Co-challengers Jeremy Langhans and Mike Notaro were cool and we all got along great. The lovely Leslie and Miranda of SearchWizards did a phenomenal job putting it all together.

Please accept my apologies if I did not include your name here...

Alas, I did not attend SC 2008, and will be curious to hear about SC 2010!

Couple of pics courtesy of Leslie O'Connor (who has a Sourcecon 2007 Album on FaceBook)

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Permalink Reply by Suzy Tonini on October 15, 2009 at 4:56pm

OK since @Jer206 doesn't want to give away the secret sauce to what the Grandmaster challenge was, and Mike Notaro is obviously MIA - hope he's OK- here's what the challenge was: Find Female Software Engineers/Developers who were US authorized or based and who belonged to an association. No using LinkedIn or other Social Networks. Can't quite remember how Mikey won but I think it had something to do with a Broadlook tool, and the person with the most amount of names in an Excel spreadsheet won. Voila!

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on October 15, 2009 at 4:58pm

Thank you, Suzy. Did you need to find resumes or just contact info or profiles? Could you X-ray LinkedIn?

Suzy Tonini said:

OK since @Jer206 doesn't want to give away the secret sauce to what the Grandmaster challenge was, and Mike Notaro is obviously MIA - hope he's OK- here's what the challenge was: Find Female Software Engineers/Developers who were US authorized or based and who belonged to an association. No using LinkedIn or other Social Networks. Can't quite remember how Mikey won but I think it had something to do with a Broadlook tool, and the person with the most amount of names in an Excel spreadsheet won. Voila!