I’m writing this on a train to Geneva airport from where I’ll hop across to the UK for a week. This afternoon I have a meeting in London at the British Library, after which I’ll be checking into the Hilton London Metropole where Autodesk is holding its 9th (at least I think that’s right, if the first was – as I seem to recall – in 2009) annual Technical Summit. This is the internal meeting where technical staff from around the world get together to share information and learn from each other.
Every year the percentage of presentation proposals selected is smaller, mainly due to the fact that every year there are more proposals submitted (this year there were more than a thousand!) for a fairly similar number of presentation slots. I submitted two – one about using Forge to implement Dasher 360, the second about developing for HoloLens – and only the second ended up being accepted. If I’d been able to choose, I would have preferred it being the first, but at…