Posted 4825 days ago

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What a fun weekend. I've been in Minneapolis for the last two days with the basic and in-office trainers from around the country. Many that attended I know from doing this the last few years and meeting them at other gatherings. Others I met for the first time and really enjoyed getting to know them. We all flew in to learn about 4.0 software, CEREC connect 4.0 software, club CEREC, the GALILEOS and other things. Brian Connolly and Rich Lake did an awesome job with the launch. Kudos to Sue Running and Sue Schwantes for doing a phenomenal job organizing things. Patterson is really fantastic with these large events. The speakers were excellent and it was especially great to have Chris Goodson, the global product manager for CEREC, coming over from Germany to demo the software to all of us. I have been using this software for about eight months now and I still learned some new stuff from the great demonstration that Chris put on. My favorite part of the weekend was getting to spend time with a bunch of the cerecdoctors.com family. We had some faculty members out here. Darren Greenhalgh, Pete Gardell and myself were all in attendance. Poor Pete had to change his flight three times to get a flight out early enough to beat Hurricane Irene up to the NYC area. There were also a bunch of cerecdoctors.com mentors out here also. It was a ton of fun getting to spend a couple of days with the guys and catch up. It is like seeing family every time we all get together. We even got together for a group photo. Sorry for the blurry image taken with a cell phone. Also sorry that we missed Darin O'Bryan in the pic as he was in attendance. The energy at the Hilton was fantastic with most in attendance getting their hands on the software for the first time. Attendees were pretty impressed by all of the changes and the ability to see the future potential as to what this new software platform will be able to do. I really can't wait for this software release!