Alex Suma

I am, and great to be back.

Yeah, good question.

I think the great thing about 2022 was it was just our return to in-person, right?

SASDoc was back after, well, almost a three-year hiatus because the last one was in 2019.

And then we had two years of COVID of doing a shitload of

virtual conferences and webinars, right?

So it really benefited from that feel-good feeling of everybody coming back to SASTOC.

And there's a real family and special entrepreneurial vibe at SASTOC.

And a lot of people that have been to three, four, five, six SASTOC conferences, and the fact that everybody could get back to Dublin and celebrate and be at that event and connect with each other,

that really worked because, again, we just kind of felt that vibe and energy in the show floor, right?

I think it's not something that you get at every conference.

And I was speaking with somebody yesterday about another SaaS conference that was in the US, and they just said it was kind of like there's a real lack of vibe there, according to them, right?

I wasn't there.

But, you know, something that you get with SaaS, Doc, is that vibe.

And, you know, you look left, you look right, you've got an entrepreneur, you know, founder sitting next to you or standing next to you.

And I think with that, just that hype and the excitement and certainly pre-event was higher than ever, right?

And just like online, we were blowing up online.

And, you know, it was really kind of like getting interest of like everybody within and without and outside of the community.

So people like Paddy Crosbury from Web Summit was like...

what's going on?