Hey everyone! I'm currently flying back to DC after a 5 day trip to San Jose. I had an absolute blast! Although I have only been to San Jose twice before, it has already become a second home for me (well, third home after Steemit). I remember thinking wistfully, as I was flying out of San Jose's Mineta International Airport, when I'll get another opportunity to return to good ol' California....
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So while the details are still fresh in my memory as I wait for my connecting flight, let's recap my week in San Jose at the DataWorks Summit:
• I got here a day before the conference on Monday afternoon to get settled in at the Four Points By Sheraton Hotel. A little tricky to find (since the main entrance is on the corner of another street) but great location and proximity to the Convention Center. Check-in at the hotel was a piece of cake and there was free water all day long!
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• I got a comfy room on the 3rd floor with a nice king sized bed, causing me to lay back and watch some TV and nearly doze off too before I remembered that I had to eat!
• Postmates and UberEats were absolute life-saving apps since they allowed me to order lunch from Chipotle and dinner from nearby restaurants relatively quickly and inexpensively. I ate mostly healthy food - salads and grilled salmon - but did take a break on Wednesday night when I ordered a hot fudge banana sundae from Baskin Robbins!
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• I didn't try a lot of food at the Sheraton but breakfast was always great - my usual order was the "Healthy Choice" - scrambled eggs, an assortment of fruit, wheat toast and several refills of water.
• I felt a little jet lagged throughout the trip since I was still running on East Coast time, but that didn't stop me from watching Nick at Nite until 12 pm PST every night! I stayed awake Steeming and watching old reruns of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air until George Lopez came on....
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• I checked in at the convention center right before our booth meeting on Tuesday morning. I essentially manned the IBM Machine Learning booth by presenting two machine learning demos that I developed for healthcare. Don't worry guys - I'll show you these demos really soon!
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• One of the biggest draws to our booth was Jenga - attendees from different companies and organizations kept coming over to stack up blocks and even knocked it all over a few times to hilarious results!
• As you already know, I gave my first live CUBE interview and it was a great experience! It was especially convenient that the SiliconANGLE Media staff immediately uploaded the video to YouTube and Siliconangle.tv by the next morning.
• While presenting my demos, I actually met a blockchain investor and exchanged numbers to later add him to my Telegram group. Always great to meet a fellow crypto enthusiast!
• Whenever I came back to my hotel room after a long day of conferencing, I turned on my laptop and jumped right into Steemit!
• One of the only lowlights of the trip was that the zipper broke on my messenger bag, so I had to visit Macy's and buy a new one - a mahogany brown Samsonite messenger bag. Check it out - I think it's pretty baller!
• Afterwards I ate for the first time at Cheesecake Factory and one of the servers actually recognized me from theCUBE! Doctor Ace finally getting some recognition around here ;)
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• I finally flew out this morning and I'll be spending most of my Friday on a plane. But I will take full advantage by getting in plenty of sleep - I'll be wide awake for all of you by the time I reach DC!
I can't wait to see when and where is the next conference - either Orlando in July or New York in September - but I would love to do some international travel soon. That'll most likely happen in mid-August so stay tuned - I might even break out the video camera for a little vlog!
Do you wanna see Ace do some travel vlogs on future trips? Let me know in the comments below!
Until next time, keep acing life!
