Roughly fifty journalists -- including myself -- were straining to hear the CEO of an Internet Transparency Company on day one speak on why openness and inclusiveness make good business sense. Then his politics stole the show when he informed the assembled journalists the reason the Syrian war erupted into the disaster for a generation was over drought-like conditions in the Sahara Desert and climate change. That’s when I knew I was in for something I never signed up for when I accepted an offer to be a journalist at the Collision Conference, May 1-3 in New Orleans. Fortune 500 states, “Collision is America’s fastest growing tech conference bringing Fortune 500 companies, groundbreaking startups and world-class speakers to New Orleans.” However, because of left-leaning politics being the centerpiece of this conference, it is now moving to Toronto, Canada, where Prime Minister Trudeau believes in global warming, embraces technology, and more importantly,...(Read Full Article)