On April 14th I was invited to have breakfast with IBM executives on a private yacht (with a helicopter on the stern) in Chicago.
It was a unique opportunity to discuss the future of healthcare and technology, and my company, with the most senior executives in the company, in a very beautiful setting.
Thank you!
April 12th to 15th we went to Chicago, to attend the largest Healthcare IT show in the world (HIMSS), presenting Kanteron Systems solutions at the Hitachi Data Systems booth.
We stayed at The Public Hotel. We made friends, had fun (thank you for inviting us to the Lexmark Healthcare party, Jeff), and enjoyed the nice weather!
Oh, yeah, and we worked a lot too.
March 31st we went to London with a very defined mission: to find an apartment, get cell phone lines, open bank accounts, and get the office space running. All in two days and a half, because although we did return to Spain on April 3rd, it was a bank holiday.
We had to run all over the city. The amazing thing? WE DID IT! Well, kinda.
The office was easy, since we had already been selected to join the Google Campus in London.
On March 23rd I was named Technology Advisor to the 250 year old Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts by its 56th president, Dr. Manuel Muñoz.
The Royal Academy has the second largest and most important classical painting collection in Spain, after Madrid`s Museo del Prado.
Technology and Art are two of my passions, so combining the two sounds like a very exciting proposition.
We had the pleasure to spend the second half of March with the kids and the rest of the family in Valencia (Spain).
My Canadian in-laws had never seen Fallas, the crazy annual festival that leaves the whole city literally up in flames every March 19th, after over a week of outdoor concerts, food, parades, firecrackers and fireworks.
We enjoyed paella, “chocolate con buñuelos”, live flamenco… but without a doubt, the highlight was to be able to experience the “mascletá” firecracker extravaganza from the most vantage position: the balcony of a private bank’s offices in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (thanks again, Antonio!
This past winter I met Sandy and James from Open ITP in New York, and Pepe from Valencia. They were organizing the Circumvention Tech Festival to be held in Las Naves, Valencia (Spain) March 1-6.
They invited me to give a talk, which was eventually scheduled for March 4th at 3pm. I titled the talk “When privacy does not mean the same to you and me”. It was meant to generate debate, to expose other people’s points of view, rather than to be a unidirectional speech.
Yes, the rumor is true: my wife and I are moving to London.
Now that Kanteron USA is solidly stablished, and profitable, I must proceed with the expansion plan, and make sure to grow both Asia and EMEA markets, which I plan to do from London.
So, although we are moving April 25th (more on that in another post, since it will be quite a singular “adventure”), this was our last weekend in New York because this upcoming weekend we will be in Canada, and next Friday we fly to Europe, where we will be visiting Lisbon, Valencia, Rome and London.
