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Smaller crowd that I expected. Also, more junior professionals than I expected.

It was pretty decent this year. Great CPO dinner meetings and enjoyed most of the sessions. Only real issues were very hot rooms, not much AC/Cooling. Food was less then in past years. Seemed like this years event was about saving money to host the event overall.

Content was interesting but there needs to be a transition period between the afternoon Track sessions. It's disruptive to listeners and speakers when people are entering and leaving the rooms during the first 5 minutes of the speeches. Would also like to see longer Track sessions. 20 minutes is not adequate time to discuss these in depth topics.

While I thoroughly enjoyed the networking and the solutions zone (relevlant info) - the content was a bit too general. As a sr decision maker, I was hoping for more complexity and/or specific content for our level. I wasn't "invited" to the CPO segments as I am a VP, but possibly they were more pertinent for me. I liked the venue, the size was great - small yet large enough.

As a mid-market buyer I found some value in the content - especially in Monday's workshop sessions. While it was very interesting to hear how very-large companies are handling their (very-large) needs, I thought there was too much vague talk about artificial intelligence and not many takeaways; I didn't even bother talking to AI vendors in the exhibition space. If you're interested in expanding your audience into the mid market space in future conferences, you might consider offering a track for the needs of those types of companies, where I suspect many (like mine) would get more value out of an introductory series of content.