So this year, it started with a submission to a community talk. Last year I spoke about
community reputation; this year I spoke about
free things to move to S/4HANA. If you missed it I wrote a summary of what I spoke about
here. Special thanks to
mynyna.chau for accepting my session.
Rehearsals for the session started the Saturday before. At first I thought this must be a typo. Meeting on Saturday? But it was real.
Was the lighting good? How about the camera? Did I stay in the center of the shot? I was fortunate to have
c436ae948d684935a91fce8b976e5aa7 interview me.
On Monday we have another check in. Same thing - lighting, camera, etc.
On Monday (not related to SAP TechEd) I received the SAP Community Video Contest Award. Special thanks to
02697040d5824f4a9d8fb38b1a40074f katarina.fischer and
jerry.janda for sending this.
I received an email on Saturday from
thomas.grassl makes me think I need to rehearse more…do I? I ask Michelle on Monday if she wants to rehearse again with me on Tuesday, and she kindly agrees.
A nice tip from
6b8e090ba50d45ec894fcae83b2f8a4a appears on Tuesday - the SAP TechEd materials are on
github, so I go to check that out.
Fun Run - usually at SAP TechEd Las Vegas I miss this, as usually at 8:00 am that day I am in a hands on session that I don't want to miss. This year thanks to SAP TechEd being virtual, I participate. So I take pictures every day of my early morning walks and as a result I get to participate in the
Unofficial TechEd Fun Run. Below I see Santa on one of my "fun run" walks.
I was lucky to be selected by
svea.becker for a USA "Check-in".
l_stodal made it really easy. I didn't worry about it and didn't know the check in was to last only 7 minutes until right before Lena called on me. We discuss the food I miss in Las Vegas, but how the virtual opportunity gives me the chance to attend several workshop sessions.
I attend a SAP Data Warehouse Cloud workshop with the great
ingo.hilgefort . Someone asks him to play music, and I requested AC/DC. I think everyone liked it. We were half-way through our exercises, and the AC/DC music reminded me of an NFL game, where you're on the 50 yard line and still have half-way to go to a "touch down".
Then at 3:30 pm on Wednesday
my session started. I am grateful to Michelle for the interview, Thomas Grassl for the nice lead in.
On Thursday I take a picture from another walk. My Santa picture appears in Svea's recap on Thursday!
Some regrets:
On the
SAP Coffee Corner podcast, Matt Harding said he took the week off for SAP TechEd. Michelle tells me that she too took some time off. I didn't consider doing this at all; plus I am in a Fiori boot camp in addition to regular work. So I don't spend as much time as I'd like on SAP TechEd, but there are always the replays.
A big thank you to Michelle, Mynyna, Svea, Lena, Thomas and everyone else for a great SAP TechEd.