Pat McGovern, chairman of IDG, on the current state of the conference business This is the second part of my interview series with Pat McGovern, founder and chairman of media behemoth, IDG.In this segment, Pat starts off talking about the quality of journalism - the good and the bad. He also talks about IDG’s conference business, from how its changed since his first conference back in 1964, which drew 60 people, and how the economic swings have affected its current 1200 events from around the world, from the US to Nigeria to Cambodia to Serbia. To see a dizzying list of events, click here. IDG is the producer of some popular conferences, including DEMO, Macworld, E3 Expo and its largest event Hi-Tech Fair in Shenzhen, which draws an audience of 400,000.  Pat talks about ...   [ Read more ]