In short, it was a triumph. The largest number of attendees we’ve ever seen – over 450 at Wembley and over 250 at Manchester. I’d like to thank Paul Mooney of BE Systems, John Goodman of LAN 2 LAN, and Peter Reinecke of Gedys IntraWare for joining me (and Chris Freestone) in the sessions I did… and of course thanks to the other IBM personnel for speaking and arranging.
Wembley is a fantastic venue, lots of room (important for the year-on-year growth of the audience), and I know that many people appreciated the guided tour (which I passed on this time having done it last year).
The guest speakers were great – I expected to find Alan Hansen more interesting but instead James Cracknell was my favourite. I thought that his honesty and his willingness to talk about his failures as well as his successes endeared him to the audience – not to mention the fact that he passed his Olympic gold medals around for everyone to have a look at. I wonder if there was someone covering the door.
Next stop… LCTY in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
