Groups & Teams

I think it is great to have that shared experience as a point of reference. Something like: “let’s try that crazy thing we did in that workshop in Potsdam” or “...we learned about in that talk”. I think the inclusion of the virtual pass for this year is a very good idea. That way we will also be able to rewatch things that only one of us saw live or to refresh our own memories.

I believe all 10 of us had a great time at the last conference. Most of us work in different teams and we were only merged into one big company around 12 months before the conference. So meeting each other from these different teams and areas built new bridges and showed me that we have a lot more in common than I thought. We might work differently in certain areas but I got the impression we all have very similar values.

The most important benefit from joining the event as a group is that you can share the findings and generate your ideas on the fly when just received the new information or insight. Usually when you get home and meet your team many ideas vanish or you lost the context.
We were 4 people and that allowed as to see most of the speeches as we could attend different parallel talks. For those speakers who delivered the best content we were able to have a discussion during the break. I think it is really high value to have access to speakers and have discussion just after the presentation or later during the event.
We managed to get some demos from representatives tailored to our needs.