Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
August 31, 2015
It’s been a long day for myself and my SMU team as we host our 5th Steel Summit Conference. The day began early for us with wake up calls around 5 AM after working most of the night on final presentation slides and networking with our attendees at the Marriott hotel where we are staying.
We had a great day with almost all of the 280 attendees managing to find their way to the convention center.This is an increase of 90-100 attendees from our numbers of 2014.
The comments we got throughout the day was we had a great lineup and some very interesting presentations. We will try to share some of the comments made on Thursday once we have a change to look at our notes and digest the volume of information that is being shared with our attendees. We have had a couple of surprises and some really interesting presentations. Our attendees have been challenged by more than one speaker and we look forward to tomorrow (Wednesday) when we anticipate some more fireworks.
As I mentioned on Sunday, we anticipated that this issue would be shorter than normal due to the time that we are spending hosting the Steel Summit Conference. We will more than likely publish a much larger than normal issue on Thursday as this week is a survey week on top of the presentations that we will try to share with you.
As always your business is truly appreciated by all of us here in Atlanta at Steel Summit 2015!
John Packard, Publisher
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