Autodesk DevCon 2023 in Munich – Part 1

This is a two-part series covering last week’s Autodesk DevCon in Munich. I ended up choosing to write the series chronologically – so readers get a sense of the event’s flow – and found it was long enough to split into two: there was just so much to talk about!

On Sunday of last week I once again hopped on the train to Zurich and then the Flixbus to Munich, heading across for the European instance of this year’s Autodesk DevCon series.
The bus to Munich

Children in Bavaria headed back to school last week, so there was quite a lot of traffic as we crossed into the state from Badem-Württemberg. We were stuck for a while near the boundary.Entering Bavaria

On arrival at the central bus station I walked across to my friend’s place near Goetheplatz. It was conveniently located for the event: it would have been a 40-minute walk, so the following morning I opted to take a Lime e-scooter out to the Holiday Inn Westpark.  (While it was a fun way to get there, I'm really not sure how the economics stack up. For a…

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