SunCEC2007 Day 3: Why CEC?

What´s the sense of having such a huge engineering event. It´s not a small or cheap challenge to get 4000 Engineers at one place. So … what´s the benefit: Albeit most breakouts were really good, the keynotes were informative and inspiring , the trip to Las Vegas is a nice incentive. But the core asset of this conference lies somewhere else It´s communication, the talks between the session in the floors. I had some really interesting discussions in informal talks at CEC. I have learned a thing or two but more important i´ve met people with different perspective , different challenges and different solutions on topics similar to those, which keeps me awake. It was worth to travel 10 hours for this talks alone … well … to be exact .. it were 24 hours bed to bed …