Splash 2024, Day 2, Monday, 22 May 2024
Another day, another exercise in excitement and exhaustion. Yeah, yeah, jaded, privileged, pompous Cameron is here again for yet another OneStream almost-live blog. Can anyone live with the excitement? Hah! I can, you should as well, ‘cos this conference is even more exciting than last year.
I am, in fact, missing quite a lot of it: I had to duck out of the keynote at 10:15 to prepare for a Very Special Secret Squirrel project.
I can only share this with you, but more anon:
Dear BDA CEO, I actually did attend the conference
So yes, side project, but BDA did sort of pay for a pass and I’d be remiss if I didn’t sort of show up at a presentation, particularly one I presented. I was part of the PartnerPlace overview for BDA’s products: Core Productivity, Core Technology, BDA Simple Code, and BDA Accordion Rolling Forecast. In case you missed my deathless prose, here are my slides:
Core Prod/Core Tech
Simple Code
Accordion
That of course is the official, normal, businesslike content. And then there was Yr. Obt. Svt..
Here I am looking almost normal:
And here I am in a not-so-normal state:
Alas, you cannot see the Accordion Wizard’s Wand. Sharon, yes, props, particularly silly ones, make for a memorable presence. Alex Ladd of MindStream Analytics was next and as he walked up to the podium said, “I hate going on after Cameron”.
Expo
I did in fact also make it to the Expo hall. Here’s my chum from Oracle days, Chris Rothermel, demoing OneStream’s Power BI connector:
You can see how crowded it was:
The BDA Booth
Sherri, Allen, Daniel, Luke, Ryann, Jason, Damon, Mike, Ashley, the top of Greg’s head, Mark, Gary, Katery, Ashwin, Melissa, and Robin:
The Party
Again, aways, the human factor. And the tech:
And the people
The kind of normal but not really
Damon, Jason, Mr. Metallic Stilts, Peggy, Daniel, Luke, Katery:
And the normies
Yr. Obt. Svt. and his brother from a totally different set of parents:
Wait, no, these are the normies
Peggy and Sherri:
Sherri and Shauna:
