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Lucky by mistake – have you ever walked into the wrong conference room and not realized the mistake until the show had started? Yesterday, I attended a conference about customer data and AI arranged by The Danish Industry Foundation. I arrived in time and found a seat just as it started. My first thought was that it was odd that it was in English because it was a Danish conference. But the topic was AI, which was in line with the topic of the day of how to utilize customer data – I thought. The first speaker was Steven Pemberton, with a Keynote on "There's no I in AI (yet)" He introduced himself as co-designer of ABC, the programming language that Python was based on, and as one of the first handful of people on the European Internet in 1988. It was a great presentation, insights and an experience I was thrilled to get - by mistake. By accident, I attended the conference “The Digital Leadership”  by #boye23. I afterward discovered that the program they had lined up for the three-day conference was of high quality, and in 2024 they will probably have me on the attendance list😊 Sometimes mistakes can be quite beneficial😊 And by the way, after the first presentation, I snook out of the conference, and got into the one I had come for, which also was time well spent.

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Janus Boye

Let's use networking and learning to make things better

6mo

I'm just seeing this now - what a great story! Glad you could join us and hope to you again next year with a Boye & Co nametag on :) PS: Next year will be special as it is our 20th annual conference :)

I don't think you were in the wrong room. Sounds like you were in the right one for you that day 😃

Conor Fürstenberg Stott

Partner @ Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory | Certified Better Business Acceleration Leader™

6mo

Love this. Luck is alive and kicking😎

Bernd Burkert

"I always believed if we can dream it up we can pull it together." (Michael Lang, Producer of Woodstock 1969)

6mo

If Steven Pemberton is there, then it can't be the 'wrong' conference room. Just the one you originally did not intend to join 😉. Great story, and welcome to the community!

Gerrit J. Stemerdink

Independent Research Statistician, retired

6mo

Even worse, I once followed the wrong funeral procession....

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I think Steven Pemberton should put more effort in speaking Dansk 😀 Der er intet jeg i AI (endnu)

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leuk verhaal

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Alexander Aleksashev-Arno

Innovations | Deep Tech | USER | Web3 Consulting | Culture | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion❤️🔥

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❤️🔥

Maike Kueper

Organizational & Culture Developer, Agile Coach, Speaker

6mo

Ha, what a great story. Serendipity. I‘m sure Steven was very insightful!

Moonisa A.

Design researcher (UX for XR 🥽) at Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica

6mo

Such a cute beneficial mistake! 😁

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