Posted by Jess @ 10:33PM

We just wrapped up day two of the Daratech Digital Plant 2010 conference in Houston, TX. It was an exciting day overall, with lots of things happening.

We started out actually having a chance to eat breakfast at the conference today, things were not so rushed and it was nice to start on real food rather than Red Bull and coffee. During breakfast we met two Engineers from a Norwegian EPC. Our conversation wandered to the last days of the Winter Olympics where the fact that Norway and the USA had both won an equal number of gold medals. The Norwegian fellows were quite anxious to point out how Norway was only 1/10th the size of the USA and so they clearly had a larger pool of skilled athletes in Norway. Shane quickly asked 'Was that the Norwegian Curling Team that was wearing those really ugly baggy red and white speckled parachute pants'?..... the two Engineers quickly admitted that was indeed the case and all of us settled on the fact that both countries have their strengths and weaknesses.

Back to business.... through the day, we had some excellent and insightful conversations with many of you attending the conference. There was a large number of attendee's from the Nuclear Industry present this year and it was certainly an eye opening experience to understand the different regulatory environment and processes for construction in comparison to the Chemical Manufacturing and Petroleum Refining industries that we are more familiar with.

We had the opportunity to record an interview with Sanjay Gangal of AECCafe.com. Sanjay introduced Ei to the conference via his interview and it should be available on his site by March 7th for viewing.

I also just posted a video demonstration of our LDAR intelligence module on the site today. This is a quick way for you to see the power and integration of our software with Autodesk's AutoCAD P&ID software package.

Time to get some sleep for tomorrow.... more updates to follow...