Hanging out with Google Around Town
Posted at 4:52pm EST on 03/20/2009
Google likes bring around everyone and meeting people face to face. You certainly will not see Larry Page or Sergey Brin hanging out at these conferences, but you will certainly see Google employees.
I was talking with one Googler here at SXSW who is a UX (user experience) designer out of Google New York, and he mentioned that Googlers are given one opportunity per year to go to a conference and represent Google. In the recent years, Google has added some policies to make sure that it’s not the same people going to the same conferences every year though, so you will certainly see new faces at your favorite conferences, such as SES, SXSW, SMX, Adtech, etc.
March and August are two huge months for conferences. SXSW, SES NY, and SMX Search Analytics all in March, then Affiliate Summit East, SES San Jose, and SMX in August.
Google has slowly been announcing where they will be.
- March: SES NY – Meet the AdWords team
- March: SES NY – Website Optimizer at SES
- March: SES NY – Meet the Analytics team
- April: ADSPACE – Hang out with AdSense team members
So for the next few weeks, if you’re going to any of these conferences, you can meet Googlers from around the world.
As a Google recap from this past week, I was able to hang out with Matt Cutts and Robert Scoble at the WordPress BBQ, along with many Automattic folks, including Matt Mullenweg, Andy Skelton, and Mark Jaquith.
Here are a few photos from the SXSW festivities.
Credit: Robert Scoble
