As I mentioned after the announcement at AU 2024, I was thrilled to see an Autodesk DevCon happening back in the fine city of Amsterdam. It’ll be held from May 20-21, 2025.
The last one I attended was the week (maybe a few days more) after I joined Autodesk, back in August of 1995. I wasn’t actually presenting at that first one, if memory serves me right, I was assisting my colleague Jim Tinney with his presentation about the Autodesk WorkCenter API.
The event was held in a super-fancy Japanese hotel in Amsterdam – at least it certainly seemed that fancy to me, at the time, as I wasn’t used to such things. I suspect it was the Hotel Okura, but I can’t be 100% sure, at this stage.
I don’t have any photos from back then, but here’s one that was taken a year or two later, when I was on another trip to Amsterdam. (I know it wasn’t from 1995 as I still had long hair when I first joined Autodesk.)
I know I have the conference agenda somewhere – I’ll try to dig it up. I…