I am out here in Las Vegas with my beautiful wife attending the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Summit at the Red Rock Casino and Resort. I gave the opening keynote this morning, "MTConnect: Driving Innovation Through An Open and Royalty Free Standard".
This is almost seven years to the day that Dave Patterson and I gave our back to back keynotes defining the foundation of MTConnect at Lake Las Vegas in 2006. MTConnect really has come full circle in the sense that what was a very clear vision is now a very clear reality.
I was really pleased that the manufacturing thought leaders on the panel "Factory of the Future" had all three mention the importance of MTConnect in their remarks.
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Below is my beautiful bride of over 30 years in front of the Red Rock Resort.
Not a bad view (below) from our Signature Suite that we were put up in for giving the keynote.
Above is astronaut Mike Mullane and me. I gave the first opening keynote and Mike gave the ending keynote for the first day. His resume was slightly more impressive than mine :) Seriously, Mike gave an AMAZING talk and was incredibly interesting to speak with.
Me and Julie at Red Rock.
Above and below are images of Las Vegas from Red Rock Casino