I'm attending the Novo Nordisk International IT Managers Conference in France - in a Chateau about an hour south of Paris in a village whose name I can't even begin to pronounce, let alone spell. A beautiful location in the French countryside with perfect weather the help frame the scene.
The conference has been very interesting... lots of buzz-words flying around like consolidation, virtualisation, synergies and so on. Still behind all this fluff is quite a lot of work for me. My role in Novo's head office has changed from being IT Security Focused to more IT Infrastructure focused. So when we start talking Consolidation of IT operations, building new centralised Data Centres... a lot of that falls on my desk to initiate and pursue. Interesting times ahead. And busy times!
It hasn't been all work though... we've had purely social evenings with lots of network and discussions being held over a fair few glasses of wine. Speaking of which, as you can see we had a crash course in wine making French-style. Which involves pretty much taking a splash of several grape varieties, throwing a teaspoon of "Tannin" and a quart teaspoon of "Acid" and voila... French Wine! I can't say we made a masterpiece, but it wasn't actually too bad. Drinkable anyway. Not that we did... we preferred the local Chateau Emillion wine.
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