Scenes from a Conference in Philly
They’re actually just scenes from Philly, not from the conference. I barely went to the conference. Well: I went to two sessions, which technically is the same number I attended at ICIS. But anyway: Philly is a large city with good restaurants and an urban rail/subway situation that functions reasonably well, aside from the one insane person per car rule, which — I mean, it seems like there might be some upside to the train system isolating its liabilities better.
My hotel was very close to the convention center and next door to a court building. Interesting people were hanging out nearby (not pictured).
It’s a subway in the same sense the T in Boston is a subway.
Aviation art. (It’s portrait-oriented, maybe double-click twice to see the real photo.)
This was the conference center.
Let freedom ring if it wants to, I guess.
I had a student in my MBA class last semester who gave me some excellent restaurant tips. This place was called Fette Sau, but only the name was pretentious. I mean, imho. Probably some of the patrons. Many hipsters.
There was this market here that sold the best whoopie pies ever.
- Was neat to see Orrin Cooper again. This (INFORMS is the name of the conference) was his main conference for the year.
- Again, good restaurants.
- Some very strong hipster ‘hoods.
- Taking the train from the airport to downtown: very convenient and faster/cheaper than a cab (except that they only run every half-hour).
- A lot of homeless. A LOT of homeless.
- Very impressive city hall.
- Did not find Paddy’s Pub. I suspect it is not real :(.
bkd