Tuesday, December 4, 2012

5. Conference Day 1 - Keynote

Day 1 we had a 7 o'clock start if we wanted breakfast, else the keynote opening address was at 8am.  We opted for 7:45 and a quick breaky.

So down to the foyer of the Mandalay and then down the corridor...

(quite an impressive corridor if I do say so myself - again with my IDD hat on)












Then about a half a km walk through the casino of this building...  and we were almost there...but wait....










We took a corner headed towards breakfast and a see of people were rushing towards us.  Well, I didn't want breakfast anyway so let's just follow the crowd...









Not sure why, but we sort of "guessed" the event was straight ahead...











Oops, definitely not this way...












Males hate to ask for directions, but you know what they way when all else fails...














OK, we knew there were going to be alot of delegates at this conference and we knew that Americans have a way of up-sizing, but this is ridiculous.  8,900 people.  It was like a rock concert.



You don't believe a rock concert?  Well listen to the clip I recorded below:



Open address was made by Geoff Kowalski (chief technical officer for Autodesk).

Key points:

  • AutoDesk focus is on "tool makers"
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