by Joe Eichenseer
Crazy fun times continue through day 1 and 2 after Cyrus and I made the video for yesterday's post. The only session that I was able to make it to (that I was not co-presenting) was the innovation session talking about the future of cloud services within the building design and construction industry. One of the interesting things that I took away from it were the results of the polls that the audience responded to about the role and purpose of the cloud in our industry. In general (as might be expected) the idea and promise of cloud computing was very well received among this very tech-savvy community. I imagine that if you polled business owners, you'd get a very different set of results. :)
We followed that up with round 2 of our 'Supersize Me' series of classes, this time talking about mega sized projects from the perspective of owners as opposed to designers and engineers. It seemed to be well received and we had a lot of very good questions from the group. One key thing to take away from this: make sure you have the right hardware in place - especially managed switches. It makes it a lot easer to determine if it is a network cable that is causing a Revit sync to central time to balloon from 5 minutes to 30. Just sayin'....
The rest of yesterday and today has been a blur of meetings and hallway conversations along with time at our wicked awesome and sizeable IMAGINiT booth in the exhibit hall. I met up with a lot of friends and former colleagues - it was nice to get a feel of the current state of technology and business from a wide array of people. One of the great benefits and purposes of attending AU. Classes are great, but all of of the side conversations add invaluable knowledge and insight too.
Oh hey, I did make it to a portion of a class this morning, dealing with new ideas in rendering with 3D Studio MAX. I missed a good portion of the class, but from the portion I attended, all I have to say is iRay and Pandora. Check it out and be wowed. :)
We have the AUGI beer bash tonight, so it will be another long night of conversations, helping clients out at our technical expert pods, showing people around our new Productivity NOW portal, and giving away custom printed t-shirts. I'll also get to hopefully get a few different people in touch with each other, helping other friends and clients to build their professional networks.
I don't mean this post to be all me, me, me, me, but when I'm writing it from my perspective it's hard not to. To help this sound a little less self serving, take everything above and freely apply a that type of experience to the few dozen people here from IMAGINiT. Ken, Kevin, Jeff, Scott, Bryan, Arona, Chuck, Mick.... The list goes on and on. Long days and sore feet, but well worth it!
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