Johnston McLamb hosts a booth at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference (September 21-25, 2008)
Our primary objective was to demonstrate our interactive visual business intelligence (VBI) offerings. We also introduced our new VBIMapsTM product at OpenWorld. Over the five day period, nearly 300 people visited the booth, and many of them spent time talking to us and seeing the VBI demonstrations. For us, the highlight of the conference occurred when we made a sale to a large biotechnology company. The demographics were interesting, as well. We had booth visitors from 18 different foreign countries, including ones as far away as New Zealand, Israel, and Romania. There was also a lot of diversity in the interests, specialties, and job responsibilities of our visitors. They included CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, Directors, VPs, and many different levels of managers.
Steven Pierce had the opportunity to be a speaker at the conference on three different occasions. On Sunday, he and one of our customers gave a presentation on the geospatial applications we are developing for that customer. Steven had the opportunity to give a one-hour presentation on two different days in the NAVTEQ booth (NAVTEQ is the world’s leading supplier of digital reference data for maps). In addition, we used the time in San Francisco to meet with companies that we have relationships with and to attend networking events. It was a very busy and productive week, and we look forward to doing it all over again at the next OpenWorld conference in October 2009. We hope to see you there.