Getting ready for the ESRI User Conference
After the multiple hours trip to San Diego (through Minneapolis, it kinda changed since 1982) we arrived late Friday in San Diego, hometown of the ESRI UC. Saturday I partly attended the Global marketing summit, an ESRI internal event where news and directions are being shared.
My contributions (short presentations) where titled ‘why go social’ and ‘working at the sealevel’. Social media works very differently across the globe, my guess it relates to our cultures (…). Good discussions! I attended a presentation by the Geomedicine man Bill Davenhall, one of those ‘when he talks we listen’ stories.
Sunday’s Exec was very interesting as well. Maurice Williamson brought an integrated story about the next frontier of geospatial, which excelled in content and form. This is also a story to be jealous about, and it made me change my mind about every wanting to visit our –almost- antipodes. I look forward to hear from Richard Saul Wurman tomorrow, when the ‘real’ conference starts. I’ll bring out my ‘ideas worth noting’ booklet!
*I had to interrupt (sneak out) for the soccer match. It was one of the few soccer games I ever watched, it’s not my kind of game. Wish I was in Spain for the party…congrats to Spain!