REPLY Separate Professional Conference (SD6289)

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Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi everybody.

I think that there is an ambiguity about the words 'professional conference'.
In a conference there are people who present their work or ability to other
people who listen.

In the actual conference, people who present their work are mainly
academics, some internal consultants and some consultants and the listeners are the same.

In that conference I do not think that there is one person who owns the
problem and has no knowledge of SD: the usual final client from SD.

I first thought that Jim Hines was thinking about a conference where
practitioners were selling their products to consumers. But later in his post, he forgets the end user
and writes about SD practitioners.

For me SD eventually needs a conference for SD practitioners, that deals
with SD practical technique.

But it needs too a conference, an exhibition or an exposition oriented
towards people who own the problems and generally are not interested by the
technique but by the results.

The people who are interested by the results are probably several tens of
thousand more numerous than SD people and could at last be too considered!
It is important to decide what kind of conference we are talking about?

Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:47:30 +0100