Other names at the lunch included Ed-in-Chief Joanne Lipman, one of her two deputies, Jim Impoco, who was looking very well though it had been 10 years since we met him w in Tokyo when he was with U.S. News & World Report and later getting a PhD in some Japanese-y study type thing, Condé business media president David Carey, reporters from The New York Times and ClickZ and others.

It was the typical careful Condé job, nice flower arrangements on the tables, a big sign with "Portfolio" behind Schmidt when he spoke with Lipman, signs stenciled or painted or something on the stone walls downstairs at the Four Seasons. No tchotchkes, yet, though.

Schmidt's speech is supposed to be on the mag's website later today, but we'll post our observations, too.