I seem to have missed blogging about the fact that Ark Group asked me to present a session at their conference in Sydney today (30th April 2008). My presentation was entitled ‘Advancing data governance to create improved data quality frameworks’. I promised people in the audience that I would blog my notes to today’s presentation, which I will do as soon as I am back online (probably tomorrow around midday I’d say).
Anyway – the taxi driver couldn’t find the address for the conference – the address is 1 Olympic Drive, Milson’s Point in Sydney. The fun part? This must be the first data quality conference in the entire world held in a theme park – 1 Olympic Drive is the Crystal Palaces in Luna Park. I have to say – what an impressive venue! A shame that the hot dog stands, the cartoonist, and the laughing clowns weren’t operating!
Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and I feel I got good feedback from various people after the conference in the audience. I spoke at 4.10pm on the second day of a 2-day conference. That’s always a tough call but hopefully I was energetic enough – it’s kind of hard when you had to wake up at 4.10am to give a presentation at 4.10pm (rather crazily, I asked Aimee Rootes of Ark Group to get me ‘the first flight down’ and ‘the last flight back’. Which is why I have now been waiting for the flight for three hours at Sydney Airport now.
Talk about your lessons learned. Anyway, I was glad to share a taxi with Suzette Bailey of Sensory7 and we got to speak the same language in the back of the taxi – there aren’t all that many people in the western world who actually understand the language I speak, so it was refreshing to do so.
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