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.
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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