SOT 2008
March 24th, 2008 cpetersen
Last week was the Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting in Seattle Washington. It the first conference where the Assay Depot had a booth, and in my opinion it was a huge success! We met a lot of great people, started to get the message out and talked to a bunch of service providers many of whom sound like promising leads.
Like I said, we don't launch until next month, and as such SOT was a learning experience for us and we learned a lot... for instance:
- Spend the extra money and get the thicker carpet, if you are standing for 2 or 3 days straight, it makes a difference
- Post-it notes are great give aways, everyone needs them, and if they use them, they are basically posting your logo/url/name for you
- It must be good to be in the conference business, I mean $161 to rent a table for 3 days... seriously?!
We will be applying these lessons and more next month at the Society for Biomolecular Screening meeting (SBS), the American Chemical Society meeting (ACS) and the Experimental Biology meeting (EB). If you are going to any of those meeting, come check us out!
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
I brought my camera so we could record the event... unfortunately I miscalculated and only brought my fixed focal length lens, so the photos are a little more zoomed in than I would like, but you can judge for yourselves.
Kevin and myself (as well as the laptop I'm typing on right now) in front of our booth
Mei, Andy and Charles also in front of our booth
While we were there, we met some great people, including our booth neighbors. Here are a few of them:
Srinivas Ventrapragada, the CEO of Clintox in front of his booth at SOT 2008
Mike DeGraaf of PharmOptima in front of his booth at SOT 2008
Colin Burton of MDS-USA in front of his booth at SOT 2008
It was great hanging out with you guys, Pike st. was a blast!
And last but certainly not least, I got a chance to speak with Deepak from Business|Bytes|Genes|Molecules in person which was great.
Thank you everyone for a great conference.
March 25th, 2008 at 04:39 PM Hey Chris Its great to read your blog. I had a good time too more bcos of you guys being around. Hope to read more of these blogs. Cheers Srini
March 25th, 2008 at 05:38 PM I agree with Srini, it was great meeting you (and seeing you guys again today!). I'm glad my booth was next to your, it made the time pass a lot faster :D
March 26th, 2008 at 03:24 AM Chris, Glad I was make it to the booth and have some sort of a chat. Really nice to see a company put some oomph and web savvy into something most people think of as just another thing. Thanks for the demo too :)
March 26th, 2008 at 03:50 AM Chris, Thanks for the mention in your blog. It was a blast hanging with you guys. Hope to see you in June. Mike.
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