Last week was time for BILT North America and I enjoyed attending vicariously via the tweets from Toronto. Back in 2014, I was lucky enough to be able to attend what was then RTC North America in Chicago, or more technically, Schaumburg, a satellite of Chicago (it would be a bit like calling RTC Wollongong, RTC Sydney).
I was convinced by my friends, Jason Howden and Chris Razzell to submit our abstract BIMx:Big Ideas around Big Data for the North American event, as well as the Australian event. We didn’t get selected for ANZ but we did for NA – and so the BIMinions were born and on their way to Chicago. I had already decided to plan a holiday alongside my trip to the states, and was then amazingly lucky to be asked to also visit some client sites while I was there (the stars occasionally align!). So as well as having time to visit Chicago proper, I also visited Boston, upstate New York and Toronto, travelling for around 3 weeks – gotta make that 24 hour flight…