Mobile Con Cons 5K Visitors?

SanDiego Convention Center-thumb-200x144We sort of noticed the decline of attendance for Mobile Con this year vs prior year.  CTIA announced more than 5,000 information technology professionals attended the three-day event which was 10k less than last year.

61% of MobileCON 2012 attendees were comprised of enterprise and IT solutions providers, users, application companies, carriers and M2M providers. 59% of registrants were C-level or senior executives, CTIA said.

Top Areas of Interest to MobileCON 2012 Attendees, in order of popularity:

  • M2M.
  • Mobile App/Device Management.
  • Applications/Software.
  • Mobile Cloud.
  • Mobile IT Enterprise Solutions & Strategy.

Level of Senior Executive Attendance at MobileCON 2012:

  • C-level, Executive & Senior Management – 59 percent.

Top 3 Job Functions of Attendees:

  • IT, Engineering and R&D – 32 percent.
  • Corporate Management – 15 percent.
  • Marketing & Communications – 10 percent.

Nationality of Top Non-U.S. Attendees:

  • Canada.
  • U.K..
  • China.
  • Mexico.
  • South Korea.
  • Japan.
  • Greece
  • India

The best part was beautiful San Diego and the ocean view of the San Diego Convention Center.