NI Week 2022 - Any News?

[Jordan Kuehn]

Anyone have any news if NI will be bringing this conference back? I see the Austin Convention center has a listing for May 24-26, 2022.

 

[josborne01]

I am curious, too.  Might be nice to book plane tickets if its gonna happen.

[Stagg54]

if they haven't put out a call for presentations yet or mentioned anything in the press or to the community by now, it ain't happening in May.

The convention center probably only shows that because they probably signed a multi-year deal and just haven't officially cancelled with the convention center yet.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The online stuff is OK, but nothin beats in-person. NIWeek used to be where I connected with the community, met old friends and made new ones. It's sad really.

[jcarmody]

I had dreams of someday going to one and taking selfies with all of my LabVIEW heroes.  

[hooovahh]

1 hour ago, jcarmody said:

I had dreams of someday going to one and taking selfies with all of my LabVIEW heroes.  

Never meet your heroes.  Unless it's me and you're planning on buying me a Texas Tea at the piano bar.  In that case you should definitely meet your heroes.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

3 hours ago, hooovahh said:

Never meet your heroes

I think you're more of a sidekick.

[jacobson]

2 hours ago, Michael Aivaliotis said:

I think you're more of a sidekick.

As an NI employee am I part of the legion of doom in this analogy?

[Gribo]

There is a reason we call the NI forums the dark side.

[ShaunR]

On 1/14/2022 at 2:58 PM, hooovahh said:

Unless it's me and you're planning on buying me a Texas Tea

A quart of oil? Robot confirmed.

Edited January 15, 2022 by ShaunR

[Gribo]

That's not oil, that's battery acid.

[hooovahh]

On 1/14/2022 at 1:30 PM, Michael Aivaliotis said:

I think you're more of a sidekick.

I'll take it!

Also a Texas Tea is like a long island tea but with tequila instead of gin. I like gin, and don't usually like tequila but man when I'm at NI week, those are amazing.  Thank you @Mark Balla. 

[bjustice]

I just go to see all of you guys "dance" at the Spazmatics band night

[joerghampel]

3 hours ago, bjustice said:

I just go to see all of you guys "dance" at the Spazmatics band night

Oh man I really really miss that!!

[ShaunR]

19 hours ago, hooovahh said:

Also a Texas Tea is like a long island tea but with tequila instead of gin.

 

[brian]

I was looking at https://www.ni.com/en-us/events/niconnect.html

where it says:

 

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Will there be speaking opportunities at NI Connect?

There will not be an external “Call for Presentations” for NI Connect Austin.

 

Elsewhere, it hints that there could be external presentations, but my guess is they'll be industry-focused (and apparently with invited speakers only).

Anybody heard more about it?  Any thoughts on this?

[jacobson]

The question below that seems to indicate that there may not be a call for presentations because they'll just pull from previously accepted sessions but who knows. Hopefully there will be good technical presentations still.

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I was selected to speak at NIWeek 2020. Will I be given a chance to speak at NI Connect 2022 automatically?

There is not an automatic transfer of all previously accepted sessions into the 2022 program. However, we’ll prioritize currently approved sessions when 2022 conference planning begins and contact you regarding next steps.

 

[Jordan Kuehn]

2 hours ago, brian said:

I was looking at https://www.ni.com/en-us/events/niconnect.html

where it says:

 

Elsewhere, it hints that there could be external presentations, but my guess is they'll be industry-focused (and apparently with invited speakers only).

Anybody heard more about it?  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for the link and bringing it to our attention! I focused on this part (my emphasis added):

 

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We’re excited to announce that NI Connect, our annual conference, is back and in person!

 

[Michael Aivaliotis]

So we are all meeting up again this year? Yay?

[Stagg54]

On 1/13/2022 at 7:23 PM, Stagg54 said:

if they haven't put out a call for presentations yet or mentioned anything in the press or to the community by now, it ain't happening in May.

The convention center probably only shows that because they probably signed a multi-year deal and just haven't officially cancelled with the convention center yet.

I stand corrected. If you are not going to have external, I guess you don't need a call for presentations.

[Jordan Kuehn]

I have approval for the trip and will be bringing a few other engineers. LAVA BBQ happening?

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I'm thinking of going. Anyone else?

[A Scottish moose]

Corp gave the rubber stamp so I'm planning on being there.

 

[Stagg54]

I'll be there. But since you are also going to GDevCon NA, we could do a LAVA BBQ there as well. Or might might I suggest a LAVA tubing event? There is a whitewater park a block from the venue.

[bjustice]

Was there ever a call for presentations for this event?

Or should we expect for this to be all NI presentations?

Will there be a LAVA (advanced users) track?