I was very privileged to get the opportunity to moderate a panel at SXSW in Austin last week.  Our topic was Outsourcing 2.0 - Is the World Flat or Not?

My fellow panelists were Andrea Azril from Star Tech Global, Sandeep Sood from Monsoon Company and Matt Tritico, a developer in New Orleans working for LSU.

We had a very lively discussion about working with overseas teams, focused on the trade-offs and lessons learned through the work we’ve done.  Frankly, we expected a more politically focused discussion with the world economic crisis and job losses in the US.  However, the audience was a very sophisticated audience, much more focused on learning the in’s and out’s of outsourcing than scoring political points.  As I’ve mentioned to people I’ve discussed the political sensitivity of outsourcing with, in other parts of the world they don’t call it outsourcing, they call it competing.

The video from our talk is below.  I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Special thanks to Andrea, Sandeep & Matt for making it such a great panel and the Net2NO crew for all their support.