A look at day 2...
Well! Right now I can barely touch my hands together because my pecs hurt so much from the 5-person 120-lap marathon at Xtreme Indoor Karting. I had the fastest lap time on my team! (I also wiped out twice and pretty much doomed us to last place within the first few laps.) I heard rave reviews from several of the other Tuesday activities as well. A good time had by all, and more to come with our closing shindig coming up tonight.
More gratifying than the fun at the arcade/karting place were many of the comments I received from some attendees. In particular, I had a few people compliment us on the Foundations Technology track and the sessions exploring Robust Parsing, SpeakFreely, and their up and coming tools. Some people just parked in that technology room and never left, just soaking in all the information. The session on Analytics was packed full as well (thanks again, Zach). The other sessions were well attended too, and provided a great perspective on everything from mobile technology to speech attendants to ways to champion speech within your organizations. Good comments as well on yesterday's sessions -- Steve Springer's 5 Principles.
And finally, I just have to say how much I loved Peter Mahoney's "Top 10 Signs You've Hired the Wrong Futurist" bit just before Vlad's keynote session on what's next for Nuance technology. Bravo, Peter. Just goes to show everyone that we're always trying to make things better, and we know when we might have made a misstep. Plus it was damn funny, and a great way to kick off Vlad's speech. One more day tomorrow!
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