It's been a couple of weeks since our client forum (aka Relevance Revolution) took place and I continue to get great feedback from the event from everyone who was there. The official page for the event is still up and now has presentations and pictures for to you peruse if you couldn't make it to Chicago, or have a fuzzy recollection of Friday in particular 
- http://www.relevancerevolution.com/chicago/
Here are some of the gems from the official content, as well as some unofficial items:
1. Mike Ditka steps up for a surprise talk at his restaurant at one of the group dinners on Wednesday night. He just happened to be there and got talked into it (not sure who did the convincing).
2. Client presentations. These are always my personal favs and this time we have not just the slides, but also video recordings of the sessions so if you couldn't make it or want to pick something out of the talk track, these are a great resource. After these presentations, I often get asked to introduce people to the speakers so that they can ask more questions and continue the conversations. Funny thing is that a lot of people forget the names of the speakers and give them nicknames. I won't say who's who, but here are the best two that I heard this time around: The Professor, and Stand Up Comedians.
3. The roving photographer may see all since he did wind up coming back with a couple of thousand pictures, but we widdled them down to a much smaller set and posted them on our Facebook page. If you recall your picture being taken with your favorite xPert or each other and don't see it posted, post a comment here or on Facebook and we'll look for the image for you.
4. Since we all walk around with a varierty of photo and video capable phones, there was no shortage of casually captured content either.
Here is a great video of the IaMmE crew:
Also turns out that there is no lack of coordination for synched dancing among the group of attending clients and xMatters team members either:
I'm sure that there is a lot of great video and photo content from the event out there. If you'd like to share it with everyone else, feel free to add it as a comment to the post, or reference it in a Facebook comment. I'll plan on taking the best ones and updating this post with them. There might even be some prizes in it for you.
5. Product feeback is one of the most popular set of sessions every time we bring out our Product Mangament and Engineering leads. This time was no different with lots of great discussions taking place on and off stage with Doug, Tobias, and Cheryl. Doug has already posted a subset of the enhancement requests in his wrapup blog post. The door to provide feedback is open year around, of course, so if you'd to set up a private session, reach out to your xMatters account manager.
Staying connected with your peers tends to be one of the hardest things to do after these events, so I would encourage you to sign up to the xMatters Community and send out friend requests to people that you met. You can also join the xMatters Linkedin group or like the Facebook page. If you can't seem to find someone you met and would like to get connected to them, feel free to ping your xMatters account rep, or send me a community private message.
Abbas.
