The Jeppesen CDP conference, held annually since 1998, took place in Gothenburg on April 25-26th and attracted a record-breaking crowd. For the first time ever, and much to our dismay, we needed to decline customers attendance. We quite simply ran out of space! But... what an event it was! With 227 registered customers plus Jeppesen staff we most likely had a majority of the most prominent experts in the field of crew and ops management gathered at once in the same place. The event certainly delivered on, and exceeded, most participants already-elevated expectations.
A 'buffet' of 25 different workshops, held in 11 parallel conference rooms in 6 sessions over the two days, made it possible for the participants to tailor their conference experience in some 500,000 different ways. However, with the audiences solid background in optimization, no one had the slightest problem finding the shortest path through the program that maximised their attendance value. ;-) This was a two-day display of huge passion and knowledge in managing some of the most challenging planning problems currently (or very soon) possible to solve.
At the very end of the conference, it was announced that the annual User's Conference will be held on November 6-8th in Washington D.C., co-hosted by United Airlines. We look forward to welcoming all of our customers there this fall! Let's hope and prepare for, another event passing beyond 300 participants! Or why not 400?