22 OCW Inoapps on Tour

This was my first big event with Inoapps. They were Gold Sponsors of OCW and had a good stand near the  keynote room and amongst the big guys, so we stood out. 

On our stand we had a shoeshine, perhaps a nod to the past of professional services, how many people wear leather shoes today? But it was popular and many people said if they had known they would have worn them, they are bored of trainers and like how dressing properly makes them feel. Me I packed two pairs of boots and they look amazing.

At the  other end of the scale we sponsors the DJ booth by registration. People walked past several times a day and had the chance to request music and many times we saw people dancing. Inoapps, caters for all.

As well as the stand we had a speaking session where our CEO and founder Andy Bird, along with board member Lyle Ekdahl and an amazing customer Tobie Engels from Equitrans Midstream. They talked about the reality of moving to the Cloud, and their Q&A session was moderated by Bob Evans of Cloud Wars (if you don't follow Cloud Wars you should).

The session was full, although I felt the rooms for the conference were quite small. 100 people is not a lot for this size of conference. That said, the questions flowed. Surprisingly the number one question was all about the update cadence. We see this all the time with customer before or just starting their journey, but half of our room said they had been on Cloud for a while.

Oracle had lots of customer stories and this is what people want to hear and I think this session was even more popular as it was unscripted and total driven by questions. I know it was appreciated by those who attended, Oracle scheduled the session after they opened the bar in the exhibition and being the last session there was no rush to leave the room and people asked questions way beyond the end time.

There is no better endorsement than a happy customer who will share their story. Thank you Tobie.

We had another presentation for our Oracle ME Award but that's in another post.

Like many partners we had a customer event on the Tuesday and held this at a cocktail bar in the hotel. We recently adopted Transform - Optimize - Innovate as a strap line and had 3 signature cocktails to celebrate. Lots of existing and hopefully new customers as well as Oracle people joined us for a fun evening.

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