Today was a bit of a strange day.  We had a spring storm come in, and dump a bit of snow on the ground (12” or so).  Didn’t seem to affect the people attending session too much.  They were still well attended.

The snow did cause some travel issues, unfortunately.

We did get a couple people that braved the snow and came to the exhibition hall.

While the snow caused some problems, the breakfast and the closing party were very successful.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the closing party and the improv comedy.  As soon as I get a change to extract the video snip-its, I’ll post them a few of them on the blog.

The .NET sessions were popular today, as to be expected, but so was Nehemiah’s “Maintaining Legacy applications”.  Nehemiah asked his session attendees, what their skill levels were, and found a large chunk of them new to MultiValue (5 years or less).

The connectivity session, and the 2 document imaging sessions also were popular.

As I talked with attendees, I found that many people were looking forward to talking to the vendors in the Exhibition Hall.  When walking the exhibition hall, most vendors were always talking to someone.

By the close of the exhibition hall today, a few vendors made comment about the new faces, and that there was a lot of interest.  In attendee was heading back to the office that afternoon to get an ok to purchase one of the tools she found on in the hall.

We had a good turn out from the local MultiValue users today in addition to the full conference attendees.  The Ice Cream was very popular, as to be expected.

I was able to gather a lot of information and announcements for the conference recap article that will be in the May/Jun issue of the magazine.

Tomorrow is the last day of the conference and I’m looking forward to Closing Party.  For those of you that have full conference attendance, make sure you full out your passport and turn them in.  The prizes will be given out at the party.
 

Well, day 2 of the conference was just as well attended as the first day.  We started with the Entrinisk sponsored breakfast, and then had sessions all day long, before the Sneak Preview party. The Dashboard topics this morning seemed to be a hot topic, and the Case Study this afternoon on converting green screen to GUI was very full.

Talked with many more of the attendees today and was able to point them to solutions they needed.  I was also able to schedule some impromptu training for some "newbie" MultiValue developers that came to the show for some training.

Everyone seems to be enjoying the sessions, but haven't reached the "information overload" level yet.  Still have 2 more day to try and get them to that point.

The Sneak Preview party was well attended.  Everyone got to see and talk to all the exhibitors before all the Exhibit only attendees come in tomorrow.   The party was sponsored by the Colorado MultiValue User Group, which I thank for their support.

Well, it’s the first day of the conference, and thing are going well.  For those of you that are wondering about the attendance, we are down by 7% from last year.   The other conference at the hotel, just down the hall, is down by 50%.  I’ve talked to a few other show organizers, they if they aren’t just flat cancelling their conferences, the industry across the board is down by an average of 30%.

In the welcome address, I talked about a few predictions I have for the upcoming year and beyond.  We had standing room only in the general session.  I tried to get an audio recording to post here, but apparently I don’t know how hit a record button on the digital recorder.  Sorry.

After my general session, we started our workshops.  Many people have already expressed being satisfied with what these workshops provided for them.  I know I have received a few complaints about having to pick from 4 or 5 different session that were all scheduled at the same time.

I would consider that being successful.  If I can schedule a list of session make it hard time to pick just one, then I have been successful in the change to the conference program I started 3 years ago.

We ended the day with a class on writing articles, and how it can enhance your position in your company as well as a few other benefits.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), there are another set of good sessions, before the sneak preview party.  I’ll post some pictures of the conference and party tomorrow.

I a few session that I was doing today, so I didn't get to my Twitter updates.  You can follow the Spectrum Conference Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/intlnathan

Clif Oliver is also doing some Twitter updates as well. If you are interersted in following his you can find it at: http://twitter.com/clifoliver