Billed as Europe’s leading B2B conference for the online entertainment industries, The European Summit (TES) 2011 was held in Prague, CZ at the Hotel Praha. While the show was said to last from September 20-23, that was stretching it. The show itself was really on the 21st and 22nd with some warm-up activities provided by YNOT and Cybersocket. I am not sure what, if anything, went on the 23rd. Most people were headed to London or Munich from what I could see.

The Venue

The Hotel Praha is huge. Sadly, there are only 136 rooms. If it was Las Vegas they would have made it into a 700 room hotel. In Prague they make the rooms very large. The result was inevitable, the show hotel sold out quickly. Several of us stayed at the Silenzio Hotel which was just down the hill. I know others stayed closer to downtown Prague. It seemed that attendees were pretty spread out, more than normal.

It was pretty obvious that the hotel and staff were not prepared for the influx of business at the bar. I arrived fairly late Monday evening after traveling from Amsterdam. There were several of us that had the same thing in mind, and that was food. The front desk told us there was none to be had in the hotel and no one knew of much other than a KFC that would be open past 10:00 PM. I opted out of the KFC option and discovered that there was some food that could be ordered at the bar. What they failed to mention was that the bar only had a very limited number of beers in stock. That was gone in a flash. Yes, they had other alcohol available, but I really wanted a beer. (more…)

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These photos are from day two of the online adult B2B conference, XBIZEU 2011, held at the Bloomsbury Street Hotel, London. Day two featured speed networking, more seminars, a Q&A about the future of the industry and a Mix & Meet Market. The day ended with a pub crawl sponsored by Netbilling. It was a great opportunity to network, sight-see and try a variety of English brews. (more…)

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These photos are from day one of the adult Internet b-to-b conference, XBIZEU 2011. I arrived on the first day, but the cab ride from the airport was very long and as a result, I arrived a little later than planned. When I arrived I could see that the seminars had respectable sized audiences, but when the .XXX debate between Diane Duke of the Free Speech Coalition and Stuart Lawley of ICM Registry began, the room quickly filled. Unfortunately, not much in the way of useful information was provided.

We did have the pleasure of a visit from a group of British feminists that decided to hold a protest out front of the Bloomsbury Street Hotel, to the chagrin of the hotel and the delight of any show attendees that happened to be outside at the time. The evening ended with two parties. First, Porn at the Pub, sponsored by Epoch, Hustler and Gamma at the Carpenters Arms pub. Later, CellCast & Peekaboo TV sponsored the London Opening Bash, which was a great time (understatement). (more…)

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