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May 14-16, 2013. ASUG is the world’s largest independent SAP users’ group, made up of more than 130,000 individuals at 3,500 companies in over 17 industries across the SAP ecosystem. This was the combined ASUG annual conference and SAP show, dubbed SAPPHIRE NOW. The show played host to academic leaders committed to educating and empowering the next generation of business and technology leaders. Forums complemented learning campuses on Analytics, Business Networks, Cloud, Database and Technology, Industries and Lines of Business, and Mobile. At these campuses, delegates were able to learn how innovative solutions and technologies can help overcome key business hurdles, and transform a business. There were forum keynotes followed by presentations, microforums, demos, and discussion groups, and the chance to watch the day’s SAPPHIRE NOW executive keynote with industry colleagues. What’s that oozing noise? The sound of “SAP” rising…
Calling all bloggers, podcasters & citizen journalist: This is the show for us! Content! Content! Content! is queen er king for those who want to have a voice to the global community. From foodies & fashionistas to political junkies and Live from the scene, they all gather to learn what is new! hot! now! in the world of media.
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Breakfast spread for the early birds at NMX
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New Media Expo welcomes bloggers (that’s us)
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Renegades Write the Rules book was our check in swag
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#NMx -New Media Expo – WordPress Booth Bunz models tshirt
Did I mention there were parties?
Live from the show floor: Many other shows take advantage of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) being in Vegas. Among those are New Media Expo, a conference for bloggers, podcasters, citizen journalists aka everyone on twitter. ATT Developers Conference that includes a 24 hour hackathon – and that doesn’t mean for 24 hours they are going to hack all of the wifi in Vegas although I am pretty sure they can. No a hackathon is like Comic Con for those who are even geekier to develop Aps to be used on the ATT platform which only means every other platform is going to have them as well. Great prizes though. Almost makes me wish I’d paid attention in science class.
 The Hackathon looks like a porn convention or Comic Con session  Rear of the room for the 24 hour hackathon  My seat mates modeling their Necomini Brain Wave ears
In continuing the trend from 2010 forward, G2E – the annual event that is every thing gambling was earlier this month, held at the Sands Convention Center. So many blinging lights – so little time. But if ever there was an industry that is better off in 2012 than in 2008 – it’s the gaming industry. There was a great social media seminar and always get good takeaway information. Thanks to Masterminds for sponsoring the tweet up.
Our biggest take-away was the implementation of hand held devices in the casino experience. Sports books are the 1st to take on online gaming but in the next 3-5 years (or sooner) slot machines will be replaced by the nextGen ipad (or tablet equivalent)
WMS gaming introduced a number of new pop culture centered slot machines including the KISS brand lead by the Demon & StarChild, Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley (who looked amazingly good for having lost his mom 2 days before the ribbon cutting, may she RIP) Kiss nation was out in force or at least hired models dressed as KISS were.
Automatic bingo is the next big floor game. No longer requiring a huge room with blue hair’d grammas hoping to hit it big on the 16 card sheets in front of them, an electronic version will be rolled out to casino floors very soon. Where will they put all the trolls & charms.
Hopefully once the G2E contract is up, they will move out of the Sands and into either Mandalay or Caesars which is much more trade show friendly.
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Kiss front men: Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley cut the ribbon for G2E
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Playing the new Kiss Machines
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Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley at the WMS Kiss booth
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Bingo: It’s not just for Grandma
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Booth Bunz for Girls
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Booth Bunny Show girls for boys
Aug. 13-15, 2012. SpeechTEK is the world’s biggest conference and exhibition dedicated exclusively to speech technology. Welcome to the global network of speech technology providers developing and implementing speech solutions. This show was about customer interactions. Topics addressed included Voice Interaction Design, Customer Experience, and Technology Advances. Attendees could concentrate on specific topics by going to virtual tracks—sequences of presentations devoted to topics such as multimodal applications, cross-channel applications, and speaker identification and verification. SpeechTEK 2012 was co-located with CRM Evolution, a content-rich program helping sales, marketing, and service professionals to bring their customer relationship efforts to the next level. Given the name of the show, SpeechTEK, it’s no surprise there were plenty of, well…. speeches.
Aug. 6-9, 2012. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVSI) is the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community. AUVSI’s nearly 7,000 members worldwide came from government organizations, industry and academia. With more than 8,000 attendees and 500+ exhibitors from more than 40 countries, AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America is recognized as the leading event for the unmanned systems marketplace. the premier forum for reviewing, assessing and discussing the current state of the unmanned systems market. The event brought together the key leaders and decision-makers in the industry. Officials from government and user organizations around the world attend and participate in the symposium program. A move to make this a robots-only event was roundly defeated…
Editor’s Note: Check out some pictures we snapped while at AUVSI including our speaker’s corner.
Aug. 5-10, 2012. Share says it’s about “Technology, Connections, Results”. The branches of the IT industries dealt with at this show included application architecture development and integration, communications infrastructure, network management and security, virtualization, storage, data center management, and much besides. Seminar attendees learned about Cloud and Big Data driving IT transformation. A general session looked at Crossing the Generations Divide: Leveraging the Power of the Generations for Your Strategic Advantage. Even the daddy products like mainframe computers got a look-in, with a session on Ensuring Mainframe Viability — 30 Minutes on Mainframe Modernization, and another on how to Attract Your Next Generation of Mainframe Developers. Sounds like a kind of IT dating agency….
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