May was a death-march of travel, coming right on the heels of our April vacation in China. At the beginning of May, Jon had a team offsite, followed by the EG Conference in Carmel, immediately followed by a trip to Paris to do a keynote, the the Cirrus CPPP (recurrent flying training) in Concord, CA, then the Autodesk TechX conference in Detroit and Wilderness First Responder recertification at the Marin Headlands. All-in-all, a busy month.
Keynote at d.event - Paris D School
Mid-May, Jon was invited to the Paris D School, a French offshoot of the Stanford D School, to present a keynote on More, Better, Less. While there he met with a French journalist from Liberation, a center-left French newspaper started in 1968 by Jean-Paul Sartre, and caught up with old friend and colleague Karsten Popp - former Autodesk head of EMEA Sales.
At the end of May, Jon went to Detroit to present a keynote address at Autodesk's annual TechX conference. TechX is the annual Autodesk conference of technical, user experience, and product management leaders. Approximately 1000 people gathered to present talks and interact. TechX was held at Detroit's Renaissance Center, now the home of General Motors. While there, Jon got a sense of Detroit's revitalization and visited the Henry Ford Museum. One of the highlights was a reconstructed Bucky Fuller Dymaxion House.
