I hope by now that, if you frequently return to this blog, you've also noticed my references to the Revit Technology Conferences (RTC) that take place each year. It started out in Australia in 2005, expanded to North America in 2011, Europe in 2013 and now Asia with an event in Singapore this year.
If you've got an unlimited or at least a comfortable budget then let me encourage you to attend all of them this year. If you can't attend then consider sending your best, your most enthusiastic, your most accomplished staff in your place.
If it's more realistic to encourage you to attend just one RTC this year, then choose from any of these unique locations and events. Each region will offer its own unique flavor of location, people and sessions (based on the submissions of users like you or those you support/employ).
I wish it were easier to decide (click the links below for each event's info):
RTC Australasia 2015 - Gold Coast, Australia - May 14-16, 2015
RTC North America 2015 - Washington DC - July 23-25, 2015
RTC Asia 2015 - Sentosa, Singapore - September 10-12, 2015
RTC Europe 2015 - Budapest, Hungary - October 29-31, 2015
There are two adjunct events that will occur just before RTC in Washington DC this year. The Design Technology Summit is an ongoing invitation only event while the Building Design Content Summit is a new event that is focused on the ever important subject of content for BIM. Please visit their sites for more information
RTC NA 2015 - Design Technology Summit - July 21-22, 2015
RTC NA 2015 - Building Content Summit - July 22,2015
As always, I hope to see old friends and make new ones at RTC events this year!
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, May 19, 2014
2014 Revit Technology Conference Plug
If you've been reading this blog for long you've probably heard of the Revit Technology Conference. It's blossomed from an event happening far away in Australia each year to an event that happens three times a year on three continents. I've been fortunate to be part of the crew that helps see that it does.
I'd like to encourage you to make it to RTC again this year. If you are already, Excellent! I look forward to seeing you there. If you can't, I'm disappointed, maybe next year. If you have friends, associates or anyone that you think would enjoy and benefit from attending RTC please pass along the good word to them. Let me know if you need some help telling them.
Below are the cursory details (click the links in the name for more info) for each event this year, Melbourne's RTC is NEXT WEEK!! RTC in Schaumburg, Il (near Chicago) is NEXT MONTH! If you feel like some royal treatment RTC Europe is being held in Dublin Castle. Something for everyone this year! See you there!?!
RTC Australasia 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as VisCon)
Dates: May 29 (Thursday) - May 31 (Saturday), 2014
RTC DTS JUNE 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same at RTC NA)
Dates: June 16 (Monday) - June 17 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC North America 2014
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC DTS II)
Dates: June 19 (Thursday) - June 21 (Saturday), 2014
RTC Europe 2014
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Venue: Dublin Castle
Dates: October 30 (Thursday) - November 1 (Saturday), 2014
I'd like to encourage you to make it to RTC again this year. If you are already, Excellent! I look forward to seeing you there. If you can't, I'm disappointed, maybe next year. If you have friends, associates or anyone that you think would enjoy and benefit from attending RTC please pass along the good word to them. Let me know if you need some help telling them.
Below are the cursory details (click the links in the name for more info) for each event this year, Melbourne's RTC is NEXT WEEK!! RTC in Schaumburg, Il (near Chicago) is NEXT MONTH! If you feel like some royal treatment RTC Europe is being held in Dublin Castle. Something for everyone this year! See you there!?!
RTC Australasia 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as VisCon)
Dates: May 29 (Thursday) - May 31 (Saturday), 2014
RTC DTS JUNE 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same at RTC NA)
Dates: June 16 (Monday) - June 17 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC North America 2014
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC DTS II)
Dates: June 19 (Thursday) - June 21 (Saturday), 2014
RTC Europe 2014
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Venue: Dublin Castle
Dates: October 30 (Thursday) - November 1 (Saturday), 2014
Friday, January 03, 2014
RTC Events Calendar for 2014
The dates and locations for the next three primary conferences and three adjunct events are as follows in the order they will occur in 2014.
RTC DTS FEB 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Venue: Westin downtown Denver
Dates: February 5 (Wednesday) - 7 February (Friday), 2014
RTC VisCON 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as RTCAUS)
Dates: May 26 (Monday) - May 27 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC Australasia 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as VisCon)
Dates: May 29 (Thursday) - May 31 (Saturday), 2014
RTC DTS JUNE 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC NA)
Dates: June 16 (Monday) - June 17 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC North America 2014
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC DTS June)
Dates: June 19 (Thursday) - June 21 (Saturday), 2014
RTC Europe 2014
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Venue: (a royal venue, tba soon)
Dates: October 30 (Thursday) - November 1 (Saturday), 2014
Please mark your calendars accordingly. Hopefully you will be able to attend one, a couple, several or even all of them. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones at these events in 2014!
RTC DTS FEB 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Venue: Westin downtown Denver
Dates: February 5 (Wednesday) - 7 February (Friday), 2014
RTC VisCON 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as RTCAUS)
Dates: May 26 (Monday) - May 27 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC Australasia 2014
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park (same as VisCon)
Dates: May 29 (Thursday) - May 31 (Saturday), 2014
RTC DTS JUNE 2014 (Design Technology Summit)
(Invitation Only)
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC NA)
Dates: June 16 (Monday) - June 17 (Tuesday), 2014
RTC North America 2014
Location: Schaumburg, IL (Greater Chicago)
Venue: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel (same as RTC DTS June)
Dates: June 19 (Thursday) - June 21 (Saturday), 2014
RTC Europe 2014
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Venue: (a royal venue, tba soon)
Dates: October 30 (Thursday) - November 1 (Saturday), 2014
Please mark your calendars accordingly. Hopefully you will be able to attend one, a couple, several or even all of them. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones at these events in 2014!
Monday, August 05, 2013
Revit Technology Conference - Europe
If you've been reading this blog you've heard me plug many RTC conferences before. Yes I'm a fan, enough so that I got involved with the committee to help bring it to North America beginning in 2011. This September RTC will land in Europe for the first time, in Delft, Holland. Holland and the Dutch have held a special place in my heart ever since I lived there when I was nine. So naturally when the RTC Events staff and the European committee decided the first location should be there I was IN! If you're like me, living anywhere but Holland, it's a great excuse to go to Europe! The RTC experience and Revity goodness is just gravy on top!
The first event in Europe will be two days, Friday and Saturday (September 27 & 28, 2013) versus the three days of the other events in Australasia and North America. The venue arrangement is a little different too. RTC's have traditionally been held at a resort hotel that also has meeting facilities. Since Europe as a whole approaches this sort of thing differently the event needs to as well. I'm looking forward to the experience!
Here are links to consider if you are on the fence about attending:
RTC Europe 2013 Site
Schedule of Sessions
Registration Costs
Register Now
RTC Videos (get a taste of RTC)
RTC Commentary (attendees/bloggers)
I'm practicing my Dutch!
Hallo! Goedenavond! Ja nog een biertje neem! and later... Waar is mijn hotel?
The first event in Europe will be two days, Friday and Saturday (September 27 & 28, 2013) versus the three days of the other events in Australasia and North America. The venue arrangement is a little different too. RTC's have traditionally been held at a resort hotel that also has meeting facilities. Since Europe as a whole approaches this sort of thing differently the event needs to as well. I'm looking forward to the experience!
Here are links to consider if you are on the fence about attending:
RTC Europe 2013 Site
Schedule of Sessions
Registration Costs
Register Now
RTC Videos (get a taste of RTC)
RTC Commentary (attendees/bloggers)
I'm practicing my Dutch!
Hallo! Goedenavond! Ja nog een biertje neem! and later... Waar is mijn hotel?
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Revit Technology Conferences 2013
If you read this blog (regularly) then I think/hope that RTC is no surprise to you. I'm writing this as a reminder to those who already know about it as well as to introduce them to anyone who hasn't already heard about them. After all May and RTC AUS isn't far away now...
These are the events in the order that they occur this year:
RTC Australasia - May 16-18, 2013 - Auckland, NZ
RTC North America - July 11-13, 2013 - Vancouver, Canada
RTC Europe - September 27-28, 2013 - Delft, Holland
Each event gives you an opportunity to listen, learn, talk and mingle with many of the best and brightest people that our planet has to offer, seriously!
I attended my first RTC in 2006 in Australia, where it all started (in 2005). I've been a fan ever since and even became a committee member to help start the first RTC in North America in 2011. It isn't any single thing that made me a fan. It was the whole of the experience.
For example, I knew that every person I saw around me was like me, fascinated by Revit, just Revit then and now by what it has expanded into. I knew that no matter who I listened to, talked with or saw in a hallway that I'd see them again...in a session, in a few minutes or during a break or during dinner and drinks. The value of the social side of the event can't be overstated. People have cultivated great friendships, formed at each event, and these last and prove mutually satisfying for years to come. I can vouch for this personally.
If you struggle with getting your firm to support sending you, or if you are the firm, or if you are trying to justify sending your staff consider just the classes alone. If you or someone in your firm was charged with putting together a class of equal quality, compared with any you'll find at RTC, you can reasonably expect a 10-20 hour commitment. That's time spent preparing themselves, making sure they've covered every angle of Revit knowledge they need, then organizing it all, preparing to share it with other staff and finally actually sharing it with them. It might take longer if it is the first time they've had to do something like this, or they might not be knowledgeable enough yet to tackle it all themselves. If this same person attends RTC and returns home not only with the material from the dozens of sessions they attend but access to all the material for each and every class offered at RTC you'll have a wealth of material for FAR less cash outlay than devoting them to developing the same material in-house.
It isn't just the classes either. It's the interaction, the setting, the focus, the passion and excitement expressed by others and witnessed by everyone. You can't help but feel reinvigorated. You'll recharge your batteries so to speak. When you leave RTC you leave ready, ready for anything and eager to take it all back to the office. It's just a shame that you can't bring your whole office along to experience it for themselves...well you can...just not many offices will dare to. There are a few firms that do send as many as 10-15 staff as they see it as their annual training for key people. Do your best to attend the nearest conference, you and your firm won't regret it!
P.S. If you represent a Local User Group focused on Revit I'd like to help you get the word out to your members. Get in touch with me so I can pass along information that you can use to make it easier to talk about it at your next meeting.
These are the events in the order that they occur this year:
RTC Australasia - May 16-18, 2013 - Auckland, NZ
RTC North America - July 11-13, 2013 - Vancouver, Canada
RTC Europe - September 27-28, 2013 - Delft, Holland
Each event gives you an opportunity to listen, learn, talk and mingle with many of the best and brightest people that our planet has to offer, seriously!
I attended my first RTC in 2006 in Australia, where it all started (in 2005). I've been a fan ever since and even became a committee member to help start the first RTC in North America in 2011. It isn't any single thing that made me a fan. It was the whole of the experience.
For example, I knew that every person I saw around me was like me, fascinated by Revit, just Revit then and now by what it has expanded into. I knew that no matter who I listened to, talked with or saw in a hallway that I'd see them again...in a session, in a few minutes or during a break or during dinner and drinks. The value of the social side of the event can't be overstated. People have cultivated great friendships, formed at each event, and these last and prove mutually satisfying for years to come. I can vouch for this personally.
If you struggle with getting your firm to support sending you, or if you are the firm, or if you are trying to justify sending your staff consider just the classes alone. If you or someone in your firm was charged with putting together a class of equal quality, compared with any you'll find at RTC, you can reasonably expect a 10-20 hour commitment. That's time spent preparing themselves, making sure they've covered every angle of Revit knowledge they need, then organizing it all, preparing to share it with other staff and finally actually sharing it with them. It might take longer if it is the first time they've had to do something like this, or they might not be knowledgeable enough yet to tackle it all themselves. If this same person attends RTC and returns home not only with the material from the dozens of sessions they attend but access to all the material for each and every class offered at RTC you'll have a wealth of material for FAR less cash outlay than devoting them to developing the same material in-house.
It isn't just the classes either. It's the interaction, the setting, the focus, the passion and excitement expressed by others and witnessed by everyone. You can't help but feel reinvigorated. You'll recharge your batteries so to speak. When you leave RTC you leave ready, ready for anything and eager to take it all back to the office. It's just a shame that you can't bring your whole office along to experience it for themselves...well you can...just not many offices will dare to. There are a few firms that do send as many as 10-15 staff as they see it as their annual training for key people. Do your best to attend the nearest conference, you and your firm won't regret it!
P.S. If you represent a Local User Group focused on Revit I'd like to help you get the word out to your members. Get in touch with me so I can pass along information that you can use to make it easier to talk about it at your next meeting.
Friday, November 04, 2011
RTC USA 2012 Update
The Revit Technology Conference North America 2012 has finally announced the next location and dates as well as inviting people to submit their abstracts. If you are on the mailing list you've probably already received your notification. If you aren't on the list then let me know so we can get you added to the mailing list.
In hints on Twitter I wrote that RTC was going to be "romancing the Stone" and "there will be a mountain" of sessions as well as a passing mention of Robert E. Lee using BIM... All subtle hints at the location that has been selected. The very first RTC event in Australia was held at a resort in the Blue Mountains, so this location is reminiscent of that kind of place.
Click to visit the RTC NA 2012 web site
Click to Read about the venue
Click to Submit an Abstract
You can keep track of things as we ramp up for the next conference via Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook (well on the website too).
Keep in mind that it is quite possible, even likely, that the conference will fill the entire hotel, read into that what you may. See you in June!
In hints on Twitter I wrote that RTC was going to be "romancing the Stone" and "there will be a mountain" of sessions as well as a passing mention of Robert E. Lee using BIM... All subtle hints at the location that has been selected. The very first RTC event in Australia was held at a resort in the Blue Mountains, so this location is reminiscent of that kind of place.
Click to visit the RTC NA 2012 web site
Click to Read about the venue
Click to Submit an Abstract
You can keep track of things as we ramp up for the next conference via Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook (well on the website too).
Keep in mind that it is quite possible, even likely, that the conference will fill the entire hotel, read into that what you may. See you in June!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Revit Conferences Draw Near
Are you attending one, the other, or both conferences this year?
Planning to attend but haven't registered yet? Time is "running out"!
RTCAUS 2011 is one week away in Goldcoast, Australia. So little time left to register that you'll have to register on-site if you don't do it quick.
RTCUSA 2011 is just one month away. Come to Huntington Beach California to spend three days with other Revit users, getting your fill of information and meeting and greeting!
As a friend on Facebook shared today:
Ya know... There are three kinds of people:
Come to RTC to learn by all three!!
Planning to attend but haven't registered yet? Time is "running out"!
RTCAUS 2011 is one week away in Goldcoast, Australia. So little time left to register that you'll have to register on-site if you don't do it quick.
RTCUSA 2011 is just one month away. Come to Huntington Beach California to spend three days with other Revit users, getting your fill of information and meeting and greeting!
As a friend on Facebook shared today:
Ya know... There are three kinds of people:
- The ones who learn by reading...
- The ones who learn by observation...
- And the rest of them who have to touch the fire to learn it’s hot...
Come to RTC to learn by all three!!
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Friday, October 08, 2010
Dept. of Events - RTC USA Call for Abstracts - Now Open
Would you like to present a session at the Revit Technology Conference in Huntington Beach, CA this year?
As I've mentioned in earlier posts it is now scheduled for June 23-25 (Thursday-Saturday). The committee is now ready to receive session proposals (abstracts). If you are interested you can submit your ideas HERE.
I've created a RTC page here at OpEd just to capture some info as we move forward.
As I've mentioned in earlier posts it is now scheduled for June 23-25 (Thursday-Saturday). The committee is now ready to receive session proposals (abstracts). If you are interested you can submit your ideas HERE.
I've created a RTC page here at OpEd just to capture some info as we move forward.
Friday, September 17, 2010
RTC USA 2011 - Web Page Now Ready
Amended: It's up now!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
RTC 2009 - Call for Papers
RTC = Revit Technology Conference (aka The *AU "down-under")
My friend Wesley Benn, his team of experts and the members of the Revit User Group of Sydney (RUGsyd) organize this event each year (fifth year this). I was fortunate enough to attend and present at RTC 2006. I had a lot of fun and I still wear my hat! Events have conspired against me to prevent my return...no loss for them as they've continued to have great sessions and presenters. My loss....
So you like to teach/talk about Revit? Are you looking for an excuse to go to Melbourne, Australia? They are calling all speakers/presenters to offer course submissions for review and acceptance. Here's the pertinent details:
When: June 18-20, 2009
Where: The Sebel Albert Park Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
What do you do now? Download the FORM and follow the instructions!
Deadline for submissions is Friday 31 October 2008. Good luck...but not too much so that you don't knock me out of the running!!
I'll post a link as soon as their site is up and running.
(* AU = Autodesk University)
Oh...you could also just plan to attend!?! You don't HAVE to speak to attend!!
My friend Wesley Benn, his team of experts and the members of the Revit User Group of Sydney (RUGsyd) organize this event each year (fifth year this). I was fortunate enough to attend and present at RTC 2006. I had a lot of fun and I still wear my hat! Events have conspired against me to prevent my return...no loss for them as they've continued to have great sessions and presenters. My loss....
So you like to teach/talk about Revit? Are you looking for an excuse to go to Melbourne, Australia? They are calling all speakers/presenters to offer course submissions for review and acceptance. Here's the pertinent details:
When: June 18-20, 2009
Where: The Sebel Albert Park Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
What do you do now? Download the FORM and follow the instructions!
Deadline for submissions is Friday 31 October 2008. Good luck...but not too much so that you don't knock me out of the running!!
I'll post a link as soon as their site is up and running.
(* AU = Autodesk University)
Oh...you could also just plan to attend!?! You don't HAVE to speak to attend!!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Revit Technology Conference - Sydney, Australia
This post is overdue, late etc...sorry!
It's that time again! June 26-28, 2008.
If you have the good fortune to have the time/money/desire you don't have much time left to make plans to attend this year's Revit Technology Conference in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Revit User Group Sydney.
Stealing a little text from their site:
Now in it's fourth year, the Revit Technology Conference has already established itself as the premiere BIM-based event in the Asia Pacific region.
Following the success of our Roadshow in 2007 (Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Melbourne, and Perth), the RTC Committee have pleasure in inviting you and your team to attend the Annual Conference to be held in Brighton Beach, Sydney. The Conference aims to draw attendees from throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as other Asia Pacific regions.
The 2008 Annual Conference is to be held Thursday 26 June – Saturday 28 June at the Novotel Brighton Beach, Sydney.
Want to REGISTER?
Let me encourage you to go! I attended two years ago and I had hoped to attend this year but must attend a board meeting for AUGI instead, prior commitments trump! My loss...maybe next year!
It's that time again! June 26-28, 2008.
If you have the good fortune to have the time/money/desire you don't have much time left to make plans to attend this year's Revit Technology Conference in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Revit User Group Sydney.
Stealing a little text from their site:
Now in it's fourth year, the Revit Technology Conference has already established itself as the premiere BIM-based event in the Asia Pacific region.
Following the success of our Roadshow in 2007 (Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Melbourne, and Perth), the RTC Committee have pleasure in inviting you and your team to attend the Annual Conference to be held in Brighton Beach, Sydney. The Conference aims to draw attendees from throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as other Asia Pacific regions.
The 2008 Annual Conference is to be held Thursday 26 June – Saturday 28 June at the Novotel Brighton Beach, Sydney.
Want to REGISTER?
Let me encourage you to go! I attended two years ago and I had hoped to attend this year but must attend a board meeting for AUGI instead, prior commitments trump! My loss...maybe next year!
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