Dear Skytop Readers:

Welcome to Edition #11, where we share our contributors and their views on the speed of disruptive change and how it’s impacting and how it will continue to impact our daily lives.

Looking back on how the world has changed since September 11, 2001, it’s easy to understand why we are living through the highly polarized and divisive world of today. Even in the 10 years since Skytop began its service, I’ve witnessed change as it has rapidly unfolded before my eyes.  Sometimes my response to it felt as though I was simply moving through the change process and therefore biased through acting out my resistance in fully embracing it.  Sometimes it was simply the feeling that progress often requires the principle of, “something’s lost when something’s gained.” But then, I didn’t always believe that what was gained was actually embedded in our world. We heard the pitch: we didn’t necessarily buy the offering, however.

I’m taking a stab at a few (maybe I’ll miss others) things that have changed and as such have changed us.

Technology is front and center. While technology has helped us in so many ways, it has—like most things—become a weapon. Technology has changed the world, how we shape our companies, how we do conduct our lives and how to manage our worlds.  Analytics at your fingertips have saved us from devasting destruction—including the 2008 capital markets near global meltdown to planning for extreme weather to watching a geopolitical event unfold.  It’s changed the risk calculus for us all, in so many ways…

Dear Skytop Readers,

Welcome to our new site!

I would like to thank Luciano Del Valle, Lauren Beck, Sandy Kenyon, and William Murray for their tireless contribution in bringing this site from vision to realization. This was an effort, one that was completed in record time.

Skytop, by virtue of this platform, is now closer to my vision to create a full-fledged integrated media company.

We outgrew our former site during our transition which largely took place during and immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in 2014, we created our strategic plan, one that set the course for us to continue building our conferences while diversifying into digital content and, ultimately, SkytopTV…