As I blogged earlier, together with Sigasi's CEO, Philippe Faes, I will be traveling to #47DAC soon.
I hope I can cope with the jetlag because I expect really intesive days...

We arrive late on Sunday evening so I will unfortunately miss the first networking opportunity at the opening reception.

Monday

Monday morning I have to remember to fetch my tickets for the Denali party. I'm told this is the place to be at DAC.

Then to the Boot #694 for Gary Smith's review of EDA's hottest technology trends. Now is probably a bit late to pitch to Gary, but I should tackle him to make sure he mentions Sigasi as extremely hot next year.

Next I plan to visit the IC Design Central for a talk about an Eclipse based IDE for e and SystemVerilog. I'm sure the speakers will agree with our vision on Eclipse in EDA.

Monday afternoon I will finaly meet Michael Keating in person. I'm eager to discuss his vision on hardware design and refactoring. I will also try to talk him into posting new content on his blog on the future of design.

If I can obain a ticket, I'll be at the Denali party Monday evening. The Denali website says I'm too late to register for the EDA idol competition. I suppose that is the best for everybody.

Tuesday

The keynote seems less interesting for me, so possibily I'll try to get some extra sleep before I head to the panel discussion about EDA Challenges and Options: Investing for the Future.
I'm also curious to hear the different viewpoints in the Is the FPGA Tool Opportunity an Oasis or a Mirage? discusion. Kevin Morris of FPGA Journal will be chairing this session, so I expect an animated discussion.

Of course I will also need a lot of time to visit a lot of interesting booths at the exibition: Agnisys, ASIC Analytic, GateRocket, HiPEAC, Interra Systems, Mephisto DA and many more...

Wednesday

On Wednesday Lucio Lanza will share his opinion on Sigasi's plan in the Lucio's Litmus Test: Is Your Start-Up Ready for the 21st Century? session. Make sure you are at Booth #694 at 9:15 AM, if you want to hear Philippe pitching our vision and strategy.

In the afternoon I plan to attend the Does IC Design Have a Future in the Clouds?. Because of our victory in the Xuropa competition, Sigasi will also be available in the cloud soon.

In the late evening we travel to San Jose to meet even more people.

Interesting times ahead!
Hendrik.