A few thoughts at the close of the official first day of the second edition of the new AIIM Conference:
- The sold-out event is larger than last year’s but maintains the air of intimacy and sense of shared experience the association strove for and achieved in its first go-around.
- The exhibit area has more of a trade-show feel than it did in 2012, but the booths are all the same size, and their arrangement around the periphery of the room leaves a large central space for attendees to mix and mingle among themselves and with speakers and vendors.
- Initial topics of particular interest (to me, anyway) include the usual recent suspects of mobility and the cloud, as well as these emerging perpetrators:
- Wrapping cloud-based file-sharing with collaborative services (and vice versa)
- Simplicity in configuration as well as usability
- Vendor refocus on vertical market applications
I’ll have more as the week progresses.