Hi LISTERS! For a while I have been noodling over what I might say to convince those of still you on the fence about attending BMC ENGAGE 2014 in a couple of weeks, and it seems that all the high points have been covered.
Certainly the agenda will be a little different than we have experienced at the WWRUG conferences, but from what one can see the additional topics are an embellishment to the ongoing discussions on the ARSLIST, and can provide some very useful insights about integration with other products, spoken by those who have been there, done that. The BEST way to learn. (And besides, Lenny Warren, the other best way to learn, will be there too!) We are accustomed to forward-looking, everybody who can hear this is now under a non-disclosure mandate, you never saw this slide, presentations. There will certainly be some of that. Good to know what we'll be doing soon :-) Those of us who have been around for a while will see old old friends, and will collectively marvel at the fact that certain among that group are not only still around but still taking contracts and kicking our butts! All of this touches on what I feel is the most important reason to join us in Orlando: the greatest assembly of ITSM and AR System minds in the whole world will all be in the same room. That should include you! Everyone who comes will attend with the idea of sharing and learning to a degree we just don't find at other industry conferences, training and marketing events. It is not only an excellent opportunity for social networking, but the chance to exchange progress reports, bring colleagues up to speed on your latest project, and ask those "what on earth were you thinking????" questions of the actual people who had the thoughts! Those hallway conversations with product designers, CTO's, server engineers and vendors are just plain unmatched at other vendor events. Maybe I am a little too involved in this event (I really have zero social life). I have dropped suggestions on engineers at old Remedy conferences and watched them show up in a patch a couple weeks later. I have hired, interviewed, and been hired at Remedy/BMC/WWRUG conferences. At every one I have taken home at least one commercially applicable technique or bit of knowledge that I can use on my job the day I return that resulted from a casual conversation or a bit of hallway eavesdropping. Oh, yeah, and I learned some stuff. ... mostly stuff about Twinkie trajectories, but it remains to be seen of that will be part of the revised agenda :-) And then there's location, location, location! See you at Engage in Orlando! Doug -- Doug Blair +1 224-558-5462 Sent from my iPad Air Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully attributed to Steve Jobs :-) > On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > It always amazes me how these things sneak up. Now is the time to decide to > go. > > I have seen less chatter about the conference than the past five years, yet > to me there are reasons to be excited: > > BMC has decided to be mainstream again and run a conference > They noticed what they had initially scheduled wrong and greatly increased > the Remedy content _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
