Sitting in the last session of the conference – Ismael is going over the tools used to run the entire operation – 500 physical attendees and a couple of thousand virtual ones. All planned and arranged in a couple of months – it’s been a whirlwind.
Overall it’s been great to be around a bunch of people who "get it" – understand the cloud and what it can bring to business going forwards.
If I had any criticism it would be that a lot of time was spent talking about where we are at – not so much time spent visioning the future. Obviously with a number of vendors present this isn’t a surprising fact – but nonetheless it would have been great to have some visioning sessions that were vendor agnostic.
Anyway… thanks to all the attendees, thanks a bunch to Ismael and his team and I look forward to seeing you all again next year.
Thanks for your realtime reporting of the event. Enjoyed many of your observations and the alacrity with of your postings. Swift fingered, sharp witted.
@MP Aw shucks – thanks to you to – if you ever need me at one of your gigs just let me know….
off-topic Ben, is the name Ismael & Ishmael the same meaning? I have 2 Ishmaels in my family, my dad’s and a 6 year old grandson of his. Some people have asked us, here in NZ if we’re somehow Jewish because of the name Ishmael, but we’re not. I asked my dad about that name and he said, that his parents picked the name from the bible. Just curious, since I often see that there are 2 different spellings, which I have no idea if they’re the same or not.
FF – Simple really – Abraham had two sons – Issac and Ishmael. Isaac carried on the to be patriach of the Jews, Ishmael of the Muslims.
Either spelling works as it is a transliteration from the original Aramaic