It hasn’t changed in 20 years (and quite possibly 50).īack in the Expo, here’s the area the bridge was in: the Product Design & Manufacturing section of the Autodesk stand. It’s a local institution, as well as a bit of a time machine. I did manage to eat twice at Mother’s, a place I’d eaten at 20 or so years ago with my wife on our first trip to the city. I didn’t even end up going to any fancy New Orleans restaurants, which was a bit of a shame as I heard there were some outstanding options. Most of my trips across from the nearby Hilton Riverside to the centre were with Pete Storey, who led the Dar bridge project. The event was held in the convention centre in New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s a miracle anyone knew who I was – I guess I have this blog to thank for that.
I must have messed a few things up when filling out fields during registration: my location was simply the village I live in – unknown outside of the Swiss canton it belongs to – and my title was so long as to be completely illegible. I will say, though, that if there was an award for least helpful AU badge, I think mine would have won it easily. For me the event could have been held in a cow shed and I’d probably still have given it a double thumbs-up. One thing I will say – beyond whatever takeaways people have related to the change of venue (New Orleans over Las Vegas) or the focus of the sessions or keynotes (none of which I attended) – is that it was so nice to see people again in person. In contrast I spent almost all of my time at this year’s event in the Expo standing on or talking about a bridge, so I can’t give any meaningful commentary about the broader event, sadly. Normally I’m delivering a class or two and end up spending several hours in meetings with customers – I almost never get to spend time in the Expo. This year’s AU was a very different one for me.
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