What Do You Look To Get Out Of Conferences?

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Morning everybody. How you doing today? Thanks for your patience was not on the are the last two days first. They had some technical difficulties with my setup couldn’t get things streaming consistently. And then yesterday I thought I was going to have time during my travels to be able to record.

I just do a stream do something just didn’t work out. I was at the AWS Summit in Toronto yesterday in Toronto specific group chat with people, but it got me thinking. I’m on a bigger question and it’s asking maybe a little bit of a favor from you in the audience.

So obviously I do a big focus on cloud huge a part of my full-time job on the vice president of research have at cybersecurity Giant Trend Micro and reinvent AWS reinvent. November or early the first week of December every year in Las Vegas New Year’s on this year’s keeps growing.

Below on that the pain medium and to ask this question to you guys and I’ll get to that question a lot of conferences in a very different experience on the inside of the community or with sponsor or whatever the case may be one thing. And what’s the number to thing that you guys like doing at conferences? Is it attending session? Is it something else entirely interested because I want to know how to do.

In general the speaker at conferences. My goal is to deliver a compelling content to you. It’s to engage you around like so I’m not a good examples in 2 weeks before I’m Sektor, which is one of the biggest Canadian Security conferences. Hopefully a kick-ass, but after that our there’s a bunch of other things that I can contribute to the recording a bunch of videos leading up to it is it’s a recording interviews on site with Darius.

I do as a speaker as a keynote speaker. What can I do to help you enjoy the conference has more whether you’re there or they are attending from a really critical. Taking us today. I’m doing handheld. I need to figure that out a little bit more to get a little better image.

Do you enjoy coffee from afar? What’s the best way to do a what will pull you in what will deliver value where they are on site or not? And that’s for me is really key. Like it’s interesting to hear also until give this talk and hear the recording that talk but there’s a different experience.

I think being there all these conversations it for me. That’s even at this stage of the game for me. That’s one of the biggest things as those hallway to home attract listening talking to people as having conversations catching up meeting new people making new friends and Old Friends sharing a meal.

Going to stop you can’t replicate online. I know nobody really has a clear answer Friday mornings with Mark. I’m so what are you going to let me know I’ll compile them back together. Maybe do another ice cream next week when some of the results are going to be the biggest conference in Cloud.

So, how can I maximize ask for you? How can I deliver the most value to you the audience? So I hope your set of four fantastic day online login to comment down below and is always by email. So she for the podcast listeners me at Mark and. CA have a fantastic Friday and amazing weekend.

Talk to you online. I’ll see you on the show on Monday. Morning everybody. How you doing today? Thanks for your patience was not on the are the last two days first. They had some technical difficulties with my setup couldn’t get things streaming consistently. And then yesterday I thought I was going to have time during my travels to be able to record.

I just do a stream do something just didn’t work out. I was at the AWS Summit in Toronto yesterday in Toronto specific group chat with people, but it got me thinking. I’m on a bigger question and it’s asking maybe a little bit of a favor from you in the audience.

So obviously I do a big focus on cloud huge a part of my full-time job on the vice president of research have at cybersecurity Giant Trend Micro and reinvent AWS reinvent. November or early the first week of December every year in Las Vegas New Year’s on this year’s keeps growing.

Below on that the pain medium and to ask this question to you guys and I’ll get to that question a lot of conferences in a very different experience on the inside of the community or with sponsor or whatever the case may be one thing. And what’s the number to thing that you guys like doing at conferences? Is it attending session? Is it something else entirely interested because I want to know how to do.

In general the speaker at conferences. My goal is to deliver a compelling content to you. It’s to engage you around like so I’m not a good examples in 2 weeks before I’m Sektor, which is one of the biggest Canadian Security conferences. Hopefully a kick-ass, but after that our there’s a bunch of other things that I can contribute to the recording a bunch of videos leading up to it is it’s a recording interviews on site with Darius.

I do as a speaker as a keynote speaker. What can I do to help you enjoy the conference has more whether you’re there or they are attending from a really critical. Taking us today. I’m doing handheld. I need to figure that out a little bit more to get a little better image.

Do you enjoy coffee from afar? What’s the best way to do a what will pull you in what will deliver value where they are on site or not? And that’s for me is really key. Like it’s interesting to hear also until give this talk and hear the recording that talk but there’s a different experience.

I think being there all these conversations it for me. That’s even at this stage of the game for me. That’s one of the biggest things as those hallway to home attract listening talking to people as having conversations catching up meeting new people making new friends and Old Friends sharing a meal.

Going to stop you can’t replicate online. I know nobody really has a clear answer Friday mornings with Mark. I’m so what are you going to let me know I’ll compile them back together. Maybe do another ice cream next week when some of the results are going to be the biggest conference in Cloud.

So, how can I maximize ask for you? How can I deliver the most value to you the audience? So I hope your set of four fantastic day online login to comment down below and is always by email. So she for the podcast listeners me at Mark and. CA have a fantastic Friday and amazing weekend.

Talk to you online. I’ll see you on the show on Monday.