BILTANZ 2018 – The Empire Struck Back on my Brisbane Passport to Adventure! – Part 1 – The BIMsider

This year the BILT ANZ conference was in Brisbane Australia at the Royal International Convention Centre on May 24th – 26th, 2018.

It was my first BILT ANZ, and my first time to Brisbane and only second time to Australia so I was pumped to start the 25-hour journey from Calgary, AB, Canada.

We arrived in Brisbane on the day before, my wife joined me on the trip to enjoy being a tourist while I did the conference thing. The speaker social was that night, without much sleep I wasn’t sure how long I would last but it was a good time in a cool venue.

Notice Brian Mackay of BD Mackey Consulting lurking on the background of this picture.

Great group shot of all the speakers

The first day was the only day I wasn’t presenting any of my sessions (which was good because of the jetlag) so I got to attend the most sessions. But before any of the sessions, it was time for the opening Keynote with CSI’s Ashraf Habibullah. This was the second time I’ve seen Ashraf do a BILT…

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