Well the SAUG Summit day 1 was extremely impressive, with outstanding sessions throughout the day. All well attended too.
The highlights for me were the Business Intelligence story from the Walt Disney Company. A very relevant story, as my company is embarking on a similar journey with BI. Thanks to Ken Hierman for his session and great delivery.
The Queensland Rail session on Transformation, underpinned by an ERP Implementation was also very informative. Again, aligned in many ways with Australia Post and our IT and Business Transformation program.
The SAUG Cocktail party topped off the day nicely. It was well attended, with the crowd yelling for more from the band "Almost Famous", right 'til the end.
While the band was great, I think even they were pleasantly surprised by the hidden vocal talents unearthed by the "volunteers" who took to the stage to belt out several numbers.
We uncovered a couple of closet vocalists, who probably could have excellent careers in Entertainment rather than IT if they wished.
Looking forward to Day 2 - should be great.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Anticipating Summit Day 1 - The Keynotes
We're are at the Sydney Convention Centre at Darling Harbour, sharing it with the Sydney Boat Show.
Its 7:30 AM and Registration starts at 8:00 AM. The team is assembled and already working hard to ensure all delegates are made welcome at the start of the event.
We now have over 500 delegates registered, so we anticipate well attended sessions, and an excellent atmosphere for networking and knowledge sharing, which is what SAUG and the event is all about.
The keynotes today promise to be varied in nature, with the 3 keynote speakers from different countries, and speaking on very different topics.
I will be interested to hear from Ross O'Brien from Hong Kong, on surviving and propsering in the post GFC economy.
Then we have a Business Intelligence story from the Walt Disney Company from a US speaker, Kenneth Hierman.
Rounding out the sessions for the day is a local customer story from Queensland Rail, relating their ERP Transformation story.
With the 3 sessions above, the breakout sessions, the sponsors area, a SAP demo area, and the Cocktail Party where "SAUG Rocks" it promises to be a big day and evening.
Its 7:30 AM and Registration starts at 8:00 AM. The team is assembled and already working hard to ensure all delegates are made welcome at the start of the event.
We now have over 500 delegates registered, so we anticipate well attended sessions, and an excellent atmosphere for networking and knowledge sharing, which is what SAUG and the event is all about.
The keynotes today promise to be varied in nature, with the 3 keynote speakers from different countries, and speaking on very different topics.
I will be interested to hear from Ross O'Brien from Hong Kong, on surviving and propsering in the post GFC economy.
Then we have a Business Intelligence story from the Walt Disney Company from a US speaker, Kenneth Hierman.
Rounding out the sessions for the day is a local customer story from Queensland Rail, relating their ERP Transformation story.
With the 3 sessions above, the breakout sessions, the sponsors area, a SAP demo area, and the Cocktail Party where "SAUG Rocks" it promises to be a big day and evening.
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