I haven’t had the time to update this because I’ve swamped with work and with preparing my presentation. My slides have been through many drafts, but a couple of weeks ago I finally got my advisor’s approval. Since then, I’ve run the slides and my notes past some trusted friends for a good sanity check and to make sure I’m covering all the right bases.

In the meantime, I’ve had to navigate the corporate approval process to make sure I don’t run afoul of any restrictions they have. I’m pretty sure this was entirely new territory for them, and they really didn’t know quite how to handle it at first. But they’re good folks and flexible, so they adapted quickly and got me the necessary approvals.

So I’ve spent most of the past two weeks rehearsing and re-rehearsing my presentation for timing and content. I’m not completely happy with it, but then I never am. I think I’ve got it down well enough to get my points across and hopefully generate some thoughts and discussion. I’ll post the slides here after the conference, which begins later this morning. My speaking slot is at 12:30, right before lunch. I’m the first speaker in the “Standards” track; I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. I suppose we’ll see how it goes.