Another sighting of the elusive Pixelninja

Here’s a larger version on Flickr.

BTW, the photograph of our building is one I took last fall.

Packing up, getting ready for the show:

Manual labor will always be part of my job:

Been caught chimpin:

My role was basically the same as years past which is, in a nutshell, art director, lead production artist and event photographer. Usually I do most/all of the large format printing, but this year I had some outside production help which was great because I had about 1 month less production time than I usually do. There’s no way I could have produced (by myself) everything that was created for this show. Instead of babysitting our inkjet printer, I used an outside company called Endpoint Direct to help produce most of the signs and banners. This helped me to not only make sure that everything was produced, but allowed me to focus on things I hadn’t in the past.

The theme this year was Your Challenge. Your Chance. Your Legacy. I really wanted to go with a more classy look and we thought having a museum feel would be nice. We decided to profile past figures in health care who had left a lasting legacy as well as current people who were building theirs.

Outside the conference area we put displays highlighting the likes of Clara Barton and Louis Pasteur. I know, it still looks like the inside of a hotel, but we got some great comments on the overall look and feel of the event.

We tried to carry the same feel to our “GHXcellence” winning customer’s displays.

Inside the general assembly room were banners of current industry leaders. These I printed. I created a total of 11 40″ x 13′ banners for this room. I also created (on site) pockets in each end of the banner and cut lengths of rigid hollow conduit so they could be hung. The lesson from this year’s Summit is: when you do your site visit, make sure a qualified av/rigging person is on hand to answer your questions.

Out in the main hotel lobby we were able to put up some gobos and 6′ x 10′ banners which looked great at night.

I think the main stage turned out well. An outside production company took my graphics and put it all together.

And there was plenty of event photography going on. I snapped the shutter 1030 times over 3 days (including all the photos you see in this post).

That’s about all I have to say on the subject at the moment. I don’t have any nice shots of the agenda booklet I created this year, so that will give me an excuse to put up another post in the near future.

If you’d like to see more photos taken at this year’s Summit, click here.

Here’s the winning photo and here’s the proof

Here’s a link to my Flickr set of the night this photograph was taken.

Just before the holiday break, we released our Supply Chain Summit microsite, to promote the upcoming 2010 SCS. I built this using DotNetNuke 4.95, Photoshop and old fashioned hand-coded HTML.

During the Supply Chain Summit, after setup and before tear down, my main job is event photography. My gear is simple. A Nikon D300, a Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 and a Nikon SB-800 Speadlight. To assist shooting in really large areas with really bad light, I use The Black Foamie Thing with great success. For less than $3 to make, it’s amazing how well it improves your flash photography.

Wecome Reception

Main Sessions/Speakers

Award Winners

Entertainment