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Monika Laurent - Cincom's Smalltalk Marketing Manager in central Europe - has sent me a summary from the conference:

Much Smalltalk during the First Worldwide Cincom Smalltalk User's Conference

Last week the first worldwide Cincom Smalltalk User's Conference was successfully held in Frankfurt, Germany. If you did not participate - we are sorry to say that you really missed a great event.

It was indeed an international event: More than 90 participants from all parts of the world gathered during the two and a half days in a charming hotel close to Frankfurt. Attendees came from the United States, Canada, the Republic of South Africa, and various countries all around Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Croatia, United Kingdom, Finland); speakers came from the United States, Canada, India, Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany.

For the first time ever Cincom Smalltalk customers and partners had the chance to meet with Cincom's worldwide elite of VisualWorks and ObjectStudio engineering in one place. And they used their time!

The official conference program included more than 20 presentations and live demonstrations given by Cincomers and Cincom partners - and was expanded 'on the fly' with several demos of customers who had made the audience curious about their VisualWorks and ObjectStudio applications. During the three "Customer Advisory Board" sessions, Cincom Smalltalk management and engineering gained a lot of useful feedback from customers and partners on ongoing and planned development projects.

The Smalltalk with Cincom's engineers continued over lunch and dinner - and time passed too quickly. Much more time could have been spent discussing the interesting topics in greater detail.

For more information on the 2004 conference content please visit the product manager's blog. There you'll find also links to supplementary notes by conference participants.

The final response was in unison: We will meet again when Cincom organizes the second worldwide Cincom Smalltalk User's Conference.

Anyone have any suggestions for next year's site? I'm voting for WiFi at the location :)