Day 2 rolls around, which is actually day 1 of the conference, and we've theoretically got lots of time to practice and hone our demo (since we are slated for dead last on day 2). Our booth is outside the main hall and kind of lonely, although Bilcare eventually joined us there. First thing we notice upon getting ready to demo: the wireless hub antennas are missing. It can't work without them. Coathangers are not a good substitute.

So Alex heads off to try and find the Apple Store Rome (simple, right?) and, long long story short, ends up getting dumped out in the middle of nowhere by a fickle cabby who decided not to continue on the journey. Cost: 50E. Meanwhile, the organizers come over and say hey someone got sick, can you go today instead of tomorrow? Now, this seems like a great idea to me since we can get everything over with, relax and have a good night out, and also drive people to our lonely booth. Only trouble is the wireless hub is n/a and Alex is n/a as well. So we commit to going second-to-last on day one, regardless. As time goes on it becomes apparent that using the wireless hub to have the audience login to Trident as clinical sites might just be *a bit much* so we're starting to fall back to plan B: I'll be the clinical site. Over time, this becomes the plan.

Which is good, because my presention was positively WAY too long, and I had to rush like crazy just to get through the slides and then do the demo. Talking really fast in English to a European audience might not always be the best idea, but its clear that by the end at least some people got the picture - and were enthusiastic. The moderator called our presentation a "tornado" (and a few other things, I think) but the upshot was that we got the point out, and lots of interest flowed in thereafter. For the next conference I think we'll do just the slides and then afterwards we can do a workshop and take our time walking through study setup and "clinical site" logins.

Feeling reasonably good about our presentation, and exceedingly happy that it was over with, we went out to dinner and around Rome with our friends from Rockwell Automation and a customer from Millennium Pharma. This was a most excellent experience involving excellent entrees (spaghetti for me!), desert and drinks elsewhere, and culminating in cocktails and cigars at a cool little bistro overlooking the Colleseum!

Next day we mostly fielded follow up questions from our "tornado" and did various demos of tcViz and Trident for folks stopping by our somewhat less lonely booth.

next up: Isreal!