March 18th-20th
Join Us in Seattle, Washington
Hub for Creative Enterprise & Productivity

Why Seattle?

Seattle is an ideal site to celebrate creativity with real results. From its humble origins as a timber town, it has become a high tech metropolis. Locally-based Microsoft has led the world in the development of computer software. Seattle companies such as Amazon.com have forged the way for Internet commerce. The gourmet coffee shops pervading nearly every Seattle street corner have spurred an international trend led by locally-based Starbucks. Grunge rock exploded from Seattle music clubs, and garage bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam established a new music genre. Seattle is a unique combination of consumer trendsetting, business innovation, and quality of life. Seattle has been lauded as the most livable city in the U.S. by Money magazine, the best city for business by Forbes, and among the top-ten visitor destinations in the U.S. by readers of Conde Nast Traveler and Travel & Leisure.

Today, Seattle is a leading leisure travel and convention destination. Lured by Seattle's mythic lifestyle, new residents from the U.S. and other parts of the world have boosted the city's population to nearly 570,000 and its metropolitan population to more than 3.4 million. Entrepreneurialism still thrives in Seattle, its computer software industry leading the world in development and its biotech industry showing strong momentum. While Boeing's corporate headquarters are no longer in Seattle, its manufacturing presence throughout the region remains sizable. At the dawn of the 21st Century, Seattle is still a frontier town in spirit, an outpost on the future, and a destination for pioneers.