Peter Batty provided the keynote at this week's event being held in Vancouver. He mentioned disruptive technology. Said a conference goer on the topic, "We've already been disrupted." That's right. The trick now is how to react to and best use the disruptions.

Only recently did FME users hit a wall, a wall about which Safe was not aware. There's a limit of 9000 transformers in a workspace. Two user hit it within two days of one another recently. It's since been fixed.

"People in the field love it most, VPs next most."
- speakers from Burns and McDonald on their FME/Google Earth geospatial dashboard which compiles, CAD, GIS, imagery, work management and other data for a transmission project in Connecticut