DIA: Lunchtime wrap-up
| The DIA EuroMeeting is big… really big… I mean, you might think it’s a long way down the street to go to the chemist, but that’s peanuts to the DIA EuroMeeting. (With apologies to Douglas Adams!) The conference is huge, with over 3000 delegates and over 110 sessions in 11 parallel streams. This is both a blessing and a curse: you can be relatively confident that your “pet topic” will be covered at some point in the meeting, but you can also be relatively confident that there will be times when you want to be in two or even three places at once! We’re only at lunchtime on the first full day (yesterday was a write-off for me due to my travel schedule, so I missed the keynote plenary session and was too travel-weary for the opening evening reception) and that’s happened to me already. Twice. So, if you’re speaking here and I haven’t come up and complimented you, or if you’re exhibiting and I haven’t discussed the latest updates from your company, please don’t take it personally: I could have a team of journalists here and still not get everything done that I want to achieve here! (This is why, of course, I DO have a team of reporters covering the sessions at the ICR conference next month.) There will doubtless be many post-conference emails to people I know are here, but I wasn’t able to catch up with… So, I’m off for a brief lunch before heading to the fray once more… |
