Yes, it’s true, I’m going to miss a North American Gartner BPM summit for the first time in, well, maybe forever. There’s two reasons for this: first and foremost, I’m 110% busy with time-critical client work right now, and a week in sunny San Diego just doesn’t fit into my calendar. Also, if you review my coverage of last fall’s summit, I’m not finding enough new material at each summit since they moved to the two/year format: I’m not learning much, and there’s not much new to write about. I believe that they’ve started to add some new material specific to BPM in a tight economy, and they had a pretty successful event in London a few weeks back, so I look forward to catching up with the material – and those of you attending – at the next one.
For all of you who have sent messages asking if we can meet up in San Diego next week, I’ll raise a glass to you from these chillier climes.
sorry you won’t be there — but we will be raising those glasses of margeritas in old town over mexican food.
You really know how to rub it in 🙂 I still recall the year that we made a dedicated effort to hit each of the vendor’s parties in one night.
Sorry you won’t be there.. I also missed the London and now will miss the San Diego show after attending every Gartner BPM event since the inaugural one in Crystal City, VA in 2005. They are still though the most well attended BPM conferences around and Appian will be there in force, minus me.