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Dallas EG Conference, Day 2 of 3
Oct. 8th, 2024 11:59 pmTUESDAY
Sat with Tammy and met Abe and Surya at breakfast. Michelle Jordan presented statistics on the work we've done over the past year. John Stankey gave a rousing keynote address.
After the general session I helped out with the LEAGUE booth briefly, greeted Cameron and Stacey, and maybe sold some shoes (the store is online).
Then I made the trek to the Coronado Ballroom for "Embracing Cultural Allyship". I ended up sitting behind Dawn Cordero. During the session I was reminded Taco Bell is not a nickname for AT&T Mexico. I told Dawn so, but it fell flat.
Lunch session with Rachel Simon, VP Privacy, spoke of how to make strong connections at work. Jennifer Rylander and Gloria Lewis spoke on intentional listening. (They're the cartoon characters in the compliance training videos.) Bill Ryan and Jeff McElfresh followed up.
After lunch I took my personal phone back to the room to recharge, then hurried to the AI session. I wasn't feeling well so I made sure to grab a Coke and a cookie. Then we had another general session and I returned to the room to retrieve the phone. I hung out at the LEAGUE booth and helped knock down the display before being seated at our reserved table early. I thought we were all going to be able to sit down early but they only let me in to reserve the spot.
At dinner the first speaker was Chris Bashinelli who produced and hosted a show called Bridge the Gap, in which he interacted with local people all over the world (as well as appearing on one episode of The Sopranos). He emphasized "home" in his talk, including growing up "on a stoop" in Brooklyn. (Yes, he's a Mets fan.) After the speech and Q&A, it was time for the awards. Dawn Cordero won the first one. The next to last award presenter was faced with major technical difficulties; the script on the prompter screen was missing a huge chunk of the two awards. They had to pull up the script on a phone for the presenter to read.
After the awards I hung out at the reception in the bar behind the tower lobby, where I got to hang out with John Spalding and Johnny, greeted Jackson Ku and a colleague, congratulated Dawn on her award (and discovered she wasn't offended by my Taco Bell joke as I'd feared), and met a fellow named Ron from the Chief Data Office and talked shop briefly before returning to the room just before nine. On the elevator were two young dudes looking for karaoke in a room on the seventh floor (where my room was), but the room number had four digits which meant they'd have to return to the lobby level and walk all the way to the other end of the hotel to use the tower elevators.
The first thing I saw when I reached the room and turned on the TV was a hot dude getting drowned in the bathtub on the cold open for "High Potential" (an ABC series). OK, I didn't need to see that, so I turned to Fox 4 news. It was announced that Cynt Marshall is retiring at the end of the year. She'll be a consultant for the Mavs through 2025. I basically zoned out surfing the net for the next two hours before preparing for bed around eleven.
Sat with Tammy and met Abe and Surya at breakfast. Michelle Jordan presented statistics on the work we've done over the past year. John Stankey gave a rousing keynote address.
After the general session I helped out with the LEAGUE booth briefly, greeted Cameron and Stacey, and maybe sold some shoes (the store is online).
Then I made the trek to the Coronado Ballroom for "Embracing Cultural Allyship". I ended up sitting behind Dawn Cordero. During the session I was reminded Taco Bell is not a nickname for AT&T Mexico. I told Dawn so, but it fell flat.
Lunch session with Rachel Simon, VP Privacy, spoke of how to make strong connections at work. Jennifer Rylander and Gloria Lewis spoke on intentional listening. (They're the cartoon characters in the compliance training videos.) Bill Ryan and Jeff McElfresh followed up.
After lunch I took my personal phone back to the room to recharge, then hurried to the AI session. I wasn't feeling well so I made sure to grab a Coke and a cookie. Then we had another general session and I returned to the room to retrieve the phone. I hung out at the LEAGUE booth and helped knock down the display before being seated at our reserved table early. I thought we were all going to be able to sit down early but they only let me in to reserve the spot.
At dinner the first speaker was Chris Bashinelli who produced and hosted a show called Bridge the Gap, in which he interacted with local people all over the world (as well as appearing on one episode of The Sopranos). He emphasized "home" in his talk, including growing up "on a stoop" in Brooklyn. (Yes, he's a Mets fan.) After the speech and Q&A, it was time for the awards. Dawn Cordero won the first one. The next to last award presenter was faced with major technical difficulties; the script on the prompter screen was missing a huge chunk of the two awards. They had to pull up the script on a phone for the presenter to read.
After the awards I hung out at the reception in the bar behind the tower lobby, where I got to hang out with John Spalding and Johnny, greeted Jackson Ku and a colleague, congratulated Dawn on her award (and discovered she wasn't offended by my Taco Bell joke as I'd feared), and met a fellow named Ron from the Chief Data Office and talked shop briefly before returning to the room just before nine. On the elevator were two young dudes looking for karaoke in a room on the seventh floor (where my room was), but the room number had four digits which meant they'd have to return to the lobby level and walk all the way to the other end of the hotel to use the tower elevators.
The first thing I saw when I reached the room and turned on the TV was a hot dude getting drowned in the bathtub on the cold open for "High Potential" (an ABC series). OK, I didn't need to see that, so I turned to Fox 4 news. It was announced that Cynt Marshall is retiring at the end of the year. She'll be a consultant for the Mavs through 2025. I basically zoned out surfing the net for the next two hours before preparing for bed around eleven.