The Things Conference Amsterdam, 2022 - Informal Info/Pictures/Discussion Thread

Pictures of stands taken as I whizzed round mid-Friday afternoon before leaving for Eurostar - not meant to be artistic, but puts a picture to this floor plan:

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Apologies to IoT Creators for this fuzzy mess:

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There was a big stand for some outfit called Semtech but as I wasn’t besuited the marketing force field wouldn’t let me near it :wink:

That and they didn’t give me an LR1110 development kit, not that I wanted such out of date tech anyway, the LR1120 is where it’s at now, so I may or may not have forgotten to take a picture. But they didn’t have much anyway - Suits roaming the stand looking for prey + some big screens showing corporate stuff.

The TTI stand had lots of comfy chairs so I couldn’t take pictures as too many people having a siesta on it. But great chocolate bars.

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Additional pictures of note

The show offer from Sensational Systems:

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The rather worrying safety posters in the stair wells:

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Someone having a baby outside the hotel:

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The best pizza I’ve had in years:

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Chef & family are from Naples, enough said.

And finally, if the Eurostar has to stop because of an issue in the tunnel, here’s the last gasp place to do it:

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To compensate for the missing TTI stand picture, here’s one with the lovely Nick on full display talking to a fine man handing out vouchers:
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Best Swag award goes to InfluxData for providing two pairs of socks. Second best to Tektelic for one pair of socks. Ignion get special mention for the water bottle & straw combo.

Best forum meet up was with @Ichthus_College_Info as Steven bought chocolate!

Best workshop giveaway was a Lacuna.Space LS300 device which I have running in the garden now.

Most ambitious workshop plan is joint equal for Lacuna.Space & TTI GNSE.

Fastest workshop content download goes to @adrianmares on LR-FHSS - 35 minutes drinking from a fire hose - he will also be nominated for the next Bond movie as the Evil Genius techy.

Proud father award goes to @johan who seemed happy to have two days break from nappy changing - looking forward to Johan Junior’s keynote explaining the new stack features next year.

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I guess you must have taken that “on approach”.

@cndrxn was on a high as he’d got his award winning (see above) workshop done, and myself & Steven scored a voucher each for a Seeed Sensor kit (Wio display, LoRa-E5, camera, other sensors etc)

You have to be in it to win it!

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What not ‘Q’s’ sidekick (or replacement?

Not with his deep voiced Romanian accent - move over Goldfinger, there’s someone else to deliver that famous line: “No, I expect you to die!”