Happening in my former hometown of Norfolk, VA, I’ll be presenting with former student and current lecturer at the U of Tx Tim Pavlovich on AI in sales. Tim is the real star of this show. His day job is with Salesforce, and he’ll be covering all of the cool stuff that makes CROs drool. We’ll kick off the conference, and what will follow will be faculty interpretations of what’s happening in the field.

This 3-day conference is primarily for fans of mystery. My first year, I met Iona Whishaw, author of the Lane Winslow series. She is a delightful person, and I’ve now devoured 10 of her books since then! I’ve also met authors MS (Matthew) Greene (a great cozy called There’s No Murder Like Show Murder) and Marlie Wasserman (Path to Peril and the forthcoming First Daughter, historical thrillers from Level Best Books), among otheers. I also met gifted editor Clair Lamb who really helped me polish The King’s Collar, coming out this summer. So I’m headed back to Bethesda, where I hope to pitch The King’s Collar to future adoring fans. (Photo is of me autographing my book, Analytics & Dynamic Customer Strategy at a Teradata Partners conference.)