Thursday, November 12, 2026 · Hilton Naples
Name badges carry company and role. Nothing starts late.
Richard Forman. Five minutes on how the room works and what is off the record.
What went into production, what it cost, and what was abandoned. Moderated, with questions from the room throughout rather than saved for the end.
Fifteen minutes. Coffee in the foyer.
The same three questions asked of architects, developers and the people who run portfolios day to day.
A problem drawn from a Naples project, worked in front of the room in twelve-minute turns. Live software, not slides. Tools are chosen on fit for the problem.
What the room agreed on, what it did not, and what gets picked up next year.
In the foyer. Hard stop at 5:30.
Provisional. Session order and length settle as the lineup locks; the 2:00 start and the 5:30 stop do not move.
If a speaker’s company sells the tool, they are in the demo block, not on a panel. Nobody describes someone else’s results.
Nobody sells to this room. Not from a panel, not from the demo block, not from the lectern between sessions.
Speakers are asked for cost, timeline and headcount effect. “It’s been transformative” is not an answer.
Sixty seats means every hand can be taken. Panels are interrupted on purpose.
5111 Tamiami Trail North, Naples, Florida. Parking and room details go out with seat confirmations.