The first HI-TEC Conference is here!  Ok, it starts this Sunday, July 19, but I was moving all the boxes down to the Westin Hotel.  While this conference is what SAME-TEC metamorphised into, its roots are still in MATEC.  More Centers are involved, more conference members, more of everything.  If you haven’t registered, maybe you can make it down and register at the conference – and if you are going to be there – see you sometime next week!

Since MATEC is not the lead in the conference, it does mean less work for us.  I go from two workshops, one session, and four micro-sessions to just having one workshop and one session.  Plus Tech-Showcase for two days.  So, I guess it is more work.  And with it being in my home town, it means I get to drive home every night.  That is nice except on the day I have to show up at 6am – I just can’t roll out of bed and walk downstairs after a shower – I now have to drive and get a bit earlier.  Oh well – can’t have everything.  And, I won’t be missing the family.  

Next year it is in Orlando, so we go from hot and no humiditiy to hot and high humidity!   Hopefully people will come up and say hi at the NetWorks booth during the tech showcase.

Mark Viquesney