Category Archives: Conferences

Online meetings can be successful if they’re 30 minutes or less and there’s a well-defined agenda. But trying to convert an in-person conference to a virtual conference just doesn’t work. Briefly, an online conference fails because there’s no interaction, there … Continue reading →

I spoke at the 2020 Visual Studio Live Conference. The event ran from March 1–6, in Las Vegas at Bally’s Hotel. VS Live is a conference for software developers and technical managers who use Microsoft technologies. It’s one of my … Continue reading →

I was in Las Vegas recently for the Visual Studio Live conference. While I was there, I was invited to give a short informal talk at an American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) event called Refocus 2020. The Refocus event … Continue reading →

I spoke at the CMG IMPACT conference. My talk was about recent advances in machine learning and AI that can be useful for IT organizations. The event ran February 9-13 in Las Vegas. See https://cmgimpact.com/. The IMPACT conference is put … Continue reading →

I gave a short talk at the 2020 TDWI Conference. The event ran from February 9-14 and was in Las Vegas. I estimate there were about 500 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors at the conference. Like most technical conferences, there were … Continue reading →

I recently presented a talk about applying machine learning to Legal related problems such as analyzing contracts. My talk really boiled down to describing neural networks and natural language processing (NLP). The company that I spoke to asked me not … Continue reading →

I will be giving a short talk at the upcoming 2020 TDWI Conference. The event runs February 9-14, in Las Vegas. See https://tdwi.org/Home.aspx. I’ve spoken at TDWI several times and, as is the case with all of the events I … Continue reading →