If you didn�t make the conference, you better have had a really good excuse. I had the greatest time and learned even more than I thought I would and my expectations were already high.
I was immensely humbled to meet many great people for the first time. The Boss himself, Mike Otto, Bill Cody, Eric West, Sunil, Nate Herman, Dave Davidson, Sue Cruz, Chris Steelman, Greg Grimes, Blaine and Blair (they�re not the same guys!), and many, many more, including great vendors. You don�t quite realize how great a resource the forum is until you jump in and experience it. Same thing with the conference. If you own a pond, just as the forum is a necessity, so is the conference. The passion and general good-heartedness in this industry is something unlike any other. I�m just a young guy with a little pond in Nebraska, yet guys like Otto and Cody took the time to speak with me. I could continue to ramble on, but I�ll stop and add that the only thing I could think to change about the conference is there wasn�t enough time to take it all in.
