RSAC, Day
Three. Steps: >9300.
Started
out the day synching with my Amsterdam colleague (who’s in Pune this week), and
then went to a Courageous Women in Cyber brunch held at a Brazilian restaurant
across the street from Moscone that’s been taken over for the week by one of
the companies.
They
were pouring Veuve Clicquot, so I had a glass. The speaker was very good, too.
(Side
note: why does Microsoft spellcheck recognize veuve, but not Clicquot?)
At the
conference, I sat through enough demos (operative term being “sat”—seriously, I’d
have stuck out a revival meeting if I got to sit) to take back to the hotel
eight more tee-shirts, a travel umbrella, a wireless mouse, a wireless charging
pad, a $5 Starbucks card and a pair of socks. I also attended a talk on using
AI and machine learning for digital forensics.
Additionally,
I went to a lunch at the Children’s Creativity Museum. I could not eat, due to
the brunch, but I ended up having quite a good chat with a couple of product
managers from other companies.
By
evening, however, I bagged all the parties except the one hosted by the
competitor that was such a snot to me on Tuesday. I reckoned they owed me a drink. And maybe some loose talk.nThen I went to dinner with some
colleagues, including the SVP. When I got that invitation mid-afternoon, I
thought it might be a career-limiting move to decline.
I need
your thoughts and prayers, folks. There’s still another full day of this to go.
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