Two intense days made the weekend pass more swiftly than usual. On Friday I attended the Touristech event in Villa Erba and I spent most of Saturday in Verona at the Veronafil philately and numismatics fair.
Touristech is the first event organized by Wireless dedicated to new technologies and digital innovation at the service of the cultural entertainment and hospitality services for tourists. For this meeting they couldn’t choose a better location than the beautiful Villa Visconti immersed in the even more beautiful Villa Erba park in Cernobbio. It has been a long time since I had the chance to walk in that park, although I’m often in Cernobbio, and I hadn’t remembered how pleasant and relaxing it is. In fact it was the first time I wasn’t tired when I got home after a day full of conference presentations instead of what usually happens after the events organized by Wireless in Milan.
One of the moderators didn’t forget to mention they shot some sequences of the Ocean Twelve Hollywood movie there. After all the benefits of the presence of George Clooney in his villa in Laglio seem to be much more valuable than works of Luchino Visconti…
The presentations were all very interesting, especially for the fact that the subject matter is the basis of a software project I’m working on together with the exceptional group of people I assembled since the beginning of this year. People always makes the difference in everything and this project is shaping up very well I’d like to say thanks to them actually.
I met Paolo Conti, a journalist of Il Sole 24 Ore, the brilliant moderator of the recent Mobile Force & Office Forum 2006 and we had the chance to talk about the project.
After a morning of presentations by representatives of the major players of the tourism market in Italy, such as Touring Club among the others, the event concluded with a series of interesting case histories of mobile technology applied to outdoor journeys, such as the PDA guide they’re experimenting with at the Villa Reale Park of Monza and the PDA guide they currently use at the Swiss National Park.
Then I spent Saturday among the numerous small stands of coins and stamp collectors setup in one of the huge exhibition halls of Verona Fiere. Should I mention this had something to do with the work behind the desktop version of EcPc?
My focus were Eurocoins of course and I had the chance to meet with some kind users from the LaMoneta.it Italian forum, but unexpectedly I came back home with a surprise as much as precious: I managed to recover the Green Vespa, the only Vespa model ever made for the famous Kinder surprise toys series!
I got to know of this particular toy since I read the book Vroom with a view by Peter Moore and I’ll certainly have another chance to write more about that.