The Mac Geek Cab number 238 for Friday, January 22nd, 2010. G Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac observers, Mac Geek Cab. I'm Dave

Hamilton and today I'm alone at least right now. John's not joining me today. This is our annual. It is become an annual thing

An annual interview with Paul Kent of IDG World Expo talking about the upcoming Macworld

Expo. We do like to do this every year. I like to get the scoop on what's going

on with the Expo. We'd like to share it with you and it is interesting and I always find it valuable to get the scoop from Paul A because I really

like him and he talks so enthusiastically about it but B he is the guy in charge so you

get to hear the vision of the expo from the people that are

creating it. And I find going to a trade show if you can kind of grock what the people that

have put it together have set out to do,

kind of gives you an expectation set and it also kind of gives you a path to follow while you're there

so that you know you're doing the right thing. So without

further ado... Okay so we are here with Paul Kent who is the VP general manager in charge at IDG World Expo, in charge of Mac World Expo.

Is that, did I get your title right, Paul?

That's a whole alphabet soup of what says on my business card.

Thank you so much for taking the time to join us today.

I really appreciate it.

Well, I love being on here with you guys.

You have had us.

I think every year that you've been doing this podcast right that's right yeah yeah

it's become a tradition so cool okay so as most of our listeners know and if they

don't macworld expo is coming at the beginning, sort of the beginning of February.

Well, there's been lots of coverage of Macworld Expo and you've actually done quite a few interviews, but let's rehash just

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