July 17, 2025
Cisco Live 2025
I must have reviewed at least 400 presentations, mainly breakout sessions for CL25 in San Diego. Some decks I must have seen 3-4 times. They range from 25 slides to sometimes 500+ slides for the Sunday all-day tech sessions. The ...
Read MoreMay 02, 2024
CiscoLive 2024 – 11 years
As I am working on pre-pro presentations and then will travel to CiscoLive 24 in Las Vegas in early June, I am reflecting on the past 11 years. First and foremost - no more "sneaker-net" !! ... where files were transported on ...
Read MoreNovember 06, 2021
2020-2021 – Empty Seats
I'm looking forward to traveling to some in-person conferences in 2022! No more empty seats! Unique themes, lively ballrooms, creative lighting, and the buzz of teams making it happen. Need some help with presentations? ...
Read MoreJuly 17, 2019
CiscoLive 2019 – San Diego
CiscoLive 2019 had an incredible 30,000 attendees! This year it was held in San Diego, which I always enjoy since I have so many friends who moved there, PLUS it was my springboard to a cross-country move later that year ...
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2019
Veritas Vision
I was pleased to be lead designer of a segment of a Veritas Vision conference. I enjoy photo research and when asked if I could find a high-performance engine that exemplifies key features of their technology -- no problem! ...
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2019
CL 2018 Orlando
CiscoLive 2018 was probably the largest conference I have ever worked at when it comes to pre-pro. 750 tech decks! The team reviewed them all. However, since this was our 8th year in presentation support, the process was a ...
Read MoreJuly 13, 2017
Cisco Live 2017 – check!
Well another Cisco Live US has come and gone, its a monster event. This year the theme was 'superheroes', which was quite fun design-wise. I worked onsite with the team from Decca Design for the 6th year providing onsite support ...
Read MoreDecember 26, 2016
The Twinkling Lights of Backstage
Its been a while since I worked backstage at conferences. Common denominators: It's COLD! It's LOUD. It's DARK. But, who could pass up a last minute trip to Prague. So I hustled on over with a day's notice, brushed up on my ...
Read MoreDecember 26, 2016
The Old is New Again
When perusing old backup drive and previous versions of websites (when they were hard to just "throw together") I found some fun JPGs. The above image contains some Polaroid transfer photography, which I was big into in the ...
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