Aaron Stanley King

This week I attended Sitecore Symposium for the first time.  The conference was in Orlando and the weather was excellent.  I'm freezing now because it was 90 degrees yesterday and now that I'm back in Indiana, it's 30 degrees outside. The sessions were organized into several tracks and each day had special keynote speakers.  I attended mostly sessions with DevOps or automation topics.  There were also sessions on marketing, AI, eCommerce, and everything to do with Sitecore. My role at the agency is to support over a dozen different brands so anything that makes my daily tasks easier is great.  We also need to be ready to deploy features almost daily with a high degree of quality.  Sitecore has matured into a pretty cool system. The speakers that I saw were excellent.  I gave everyone 5 stars except for one, that was 4 out of 5 stars. The agenda was a good mix of Sitecore employees, partners, industry experts and consultants.  Some of the Sitecore employees would eve

Time:  Feb 2 Alan and I haven't spoken together for a while.  I mean we talk often but not presenting in front of an audience. Last year, Alan and I submitted our Grudge Match: XML vs JSON session to Cleveland and were delighted when chosen.  It's a lot more work to coordinate with a speaking partner when choosing when and where the both of us can be.  I'm really glad it worked out again.  The responses we received the first time were great. Place: Cleveland Northern Ohio has a vibrant .NET and SQL community.  Cleveland puts on several meetups each month and a couple yearly events like SQL Saturday that bring a large number of people together.  The larger companies like Hyland have great facilities and share them with the community and put on great parties. Cleveland is great.  It's a big event with great crowds that give awesome feedback and support. Sometimes with other venues there are issues but I have found that Cleveland really never has many.  I'