Events

This year I was lucky enough to attend this event again. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it retained the single-track style, which meant it was easy to catch all the talks and also contributed to the cozy feel of the event, it wasn’t too busy. As always, I again found the hallway conversations one of the best parts of the event - the smart people that have gathered together and the setting & context provided by the conference ensured there were plenty of interesting topics to discuss.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, I’m arriving late, but thankfully still find some breakfast being served, nice :) I have just have enough time before the next talk starts to chat with a person from Zendesk (they’re one of the sponsors and actually paid for all the coffee, thanks!). Zendesk seem to be all over the radar recently - hosting a “wine & dine” aka “we’re hiring” event a few weeks ago and coming up high in a recent review of best places to work at; good for them.

This is my first attendance to SREcon (or any other USENIX conference for that matter), so I decide to arrive early to mingle over breakfast. Somewhat surprisingly, there are only a dozen or so people here (the rest are arriving late I subsequently find). Breakfast is pretty good and even the pre-brewed coffee is drinkable, so that’s a good start. I notice that Facebook have a desk with people present already, maybe they’re still jetlagged, most of them are from USA or European offices.

Here are some of my impressions from the ProductCamp Singapore Volume 7 event yesterday. Overall I had a good time and there seemed to be quite a few smart people around. I had several stimulating conversations that made me think of new things or see old things in new light. If anything, I would’ve liked to have more time for free-form discussion and chat after the event, as there were a couple of topics and people I didn’t get to speak with much.