Conferencing in NYC

So I spent Thursday at the Financial Executives International Conference in NYC hoping to get a feel for how corporate controllers feel about the latest accounting issues as well as lending my support to the XBRL-US group advertising the roar of "interactive data" adoption as Chairman Cox increasingly morphs to a Steve Jobs look a like in public. I surmized it was the wrong crowd. That controllers have too many other anxieties filling up their diaries.

So I reneged on the second day of the FEI conference and wandered down to NYU and caught a good glimpse of the Future of Television Conference - fascinating. In complete contrast to the financial practitioners, the media industry seemed to be in total and complete acknowledgement that their industry was being massively disrupted by the onslaught of new technologies and previously untouched business models lasting 50 years were being shredded by user generated content and other innovations driven by the end users.