We’ve always made a point of attending conferences in regions where many of our business partners and end users are based, and otherwise looking for opportunities to show our faces.
While the days and nights we’ve spent in the air or in transit lounges don’t bare thinking about, and our body clocks have often struggled with the time zone changes, we have no regrets. Promoting our products has taken us to parts of the world we never expected to see, and we always try to take the time to soak up the local sights, sounds, cultures and cuisines.
The last few months have been our busiest ever in terms of travel. We’ll spare you the out of focus photos and in-flight movie recommendations, but here’s a taste of where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to:
- September 2016: Anne and David joined the Robert Lavery & Associates road show, starting in New York, then up to Montreal, before hitting the Caribbean. We sampled quite a few Jamaican jerk joints and Bajan rums before Hurricane Matthew made an unwelcome appearance. Anne made it to the BAASS office in Miami, but our scheduled visit to Nassau was cancelled when Matthew decided to crash the party. Our consolation was an unplanned but wonderful short break in Key West before heading home.
- January 2017: Anne and David visited family in the UK, and while there Anne made side trips out of London, visiting three of our local business partners. If you don’t know where Edenbridge, Weybridge, or Basildon are don’t feel too bad about it, neither did we!
- March 2017: OK, so maybe a trip to Melbourne doesn’t count as globetrotting for us, but we wouldn’t want the Sage Summit Australia organisers to think we’d forgotten them. Steve and Anne hardly had time to repack before heading to Johannesburg, South Africa for the African Sage Summit.
- April 2017: Nathalie & Anne conducted a developer retreat in Honolulu, and we have the Hawaiian shirts to prove it! Steve & Anne then met up at Niagara Falls for TPAC. Afterwards they spent a full month in Canada, basing themselves in Toronto and making multiple side trips.
- May 2017: Anne & Steve left Toronto and moved on to Sage Summit Atlanta, before finally making it home to to reacquaint themselves with their families, friends and colleagues.
- June 2017: Steve and Nathalie were off to Bangkok, with Steve continuing on to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, for business partner training organised by our Asian distributor, A-Plus Software. Anne & Steve just can’t keep away from Canada, and will be back in Toronto at the end of June for Sage Summit.
Keep an eye on the Events and Blog sections of our website to see what else we’ve been up to, and what we have planned. If we’ve somehow missed you on our many travels, and you are feeling left out, drop us a line. Who knows, we might be able to fit you into our future travel plans.
About the Author:
David Lacey is Communications Manager at Orchid Systems. You can find out more about David and other Orchid staff members at the bottom of our About Us page.
