

While in Bangalore, I did a keynote session for NASSCOM’s GEPS forum on Saturday, for whom I have been an advisor for a few years. The turnout was great, with senior executives Avaya, Infosys, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Labs, ValueLabs, Yahoo and more participating.
In May 2009, I flew to Bangalore and Hyderabad, India to do four sessions (four hours each!) for a client. This covered a number of topics that were custom done for them based on requirements from the client (senior executive in support in a global company) and their HR team.
The talks went pretty well and I did them with no notes. About 60% of the content was common, the rest of it varied based on the audience and the feedback during the interactive homework sessions.
I lead a discussion for the SSPA’s Small and Medium Business (SMB) Community of Interest session in late May. Despite audio problems for the first 15 minutes, only 4 people dropped out by the end of the hour. We re-recorded the session for the SSPA to post, but once again there were audio problems on the SSPA end.