Users Conference II

I recently reported on the success of our inaugural Users Conference.

Reflecting on the success of our conference, I realize that I completely forgot to thank our customers (some shown to the left, others listed on our website or in the conference agenda)

Despite the wondrous works of our secret weapon, our customers are the ones who really made it successful – for even with the best organization, the conference would amount to nothing if it weren’t for them sharing their success stories. 

And it’s that kind of sharing that led more than one attendee to say:  “I’ve been to many conferences like this, and PAS’s was the most valuable I have ever attended.”

The conference had three themes that seemed to work well: 

           Share!   Learn!   and  Network!

Customers presenting at the conference were very generous to “Share!” their experiences with PAS solutions.  It was a great learning experience for me, too, as I tried to catch as many of the sessions as possible.  It was fascinating to see the wide variety of problems users solve using PAS’ products. 

And even more humbling was to “Learn!” how critical our solutions are to the day-to-day profitable operation of our customers’ plants.  Many customers gave great talks that helped me understand how they use our software to operate their plants, improve safety and drive up profits. 

And to be sure that we met the “Network!” objective, we took all the speakers, attendees and spouses out on a dinner cruise.  That was perfect as well - forced networking and socializing, avoided only by jumping overboard (which nobody did!). 

In short, lots of fun, lots of learning and enough sharing to make this the “best conference ever” for many attendees.

We’ll be hard-pressed to top that next year – even with our secret weapon!

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