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I Went to EUC World Amplify 2025

August 10, 2025

This year I went to EUC World Amplify, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from August 4th to August 7th.

EUC World Amplify is the second time World of EUC has put on a conference. The first one was in 2024 and was called EUC World Independence. Which I also attended. You can read about my experience in my blog post I Went to EUC World Independence.

If you have never heard of World of EUC, they are an independent non-profit organization built to bridge the gap across all the EUC (End User Computing) vendors and to create a place where everyone can communicate regardless of which EUC product they are using.

In this post, I will detail my experience at EUC World Amplify 2025.

Travel and Registration Day

The first day of my adventure to Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA was a travel day, which started with a flight from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, directly to Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Once I made it to the hotel, I checked in. The hotel I was staying at was the Graduate by Hilton, which is themed to match the city it is in, which was a cool experience, as I have never been to a hotel that had a theme. Even the hotel keycards were themed.

After some time, it was time for the Registration and Opening Reception, which took place at the hotel.

I got all registered and picked up my badge.

Day 1

The first full day of EUC World Amplify took place at the McNamara Alumni Center, which is directly connected to the hotel via a tunnel.

The day started with a short and sweet welcome note from the board of directors of World of EUC.

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I Went to EUC World Independence

October 27, 2024

EUC World Independence is a two-day EUC (End User Computing) conference from October 22nd to October 23rd in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. This was the world premier of the EUC World conference, and I was able to attend it.

World of EUC hosted EUC World Independence. If you haven’t heard of World of EUC, it is an independent organization that was formed to bridge the gap between all the vendors and technology and community programs in the EUC space. They aim to be a one-stop shop to connect everything and remain independent from all vendors, as there are a lot of vendors in the EUC space.

In this post, I will detail my experience at EUC World 2024.

Getting to Silver Spring

Getting to Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, is a bit challenging when travelling from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The original plan was a flight from Calgary to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and then a 90-minute layover to a connecting flight from Montreal to Washington, DC, USA.

The morning began with a notification from the airline saying that the flight from Calgary to Montreal was delayed by 2 hours. This presented a problem as the connection flight would be missed, I wouldn’t get to the event until the next day, and I would miss a large chunk of the first day of the event.

Fortunately, I was travelling with my friend Stephen Wagner (who also has a blog), an expert at dealing with airline chaos. He got the airline to transfer things around, and now we’d be flying from Calgary to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, then Toronto to Washington.

On the flight, I got free food. I had never eaten on a plane before, and it was pretty good. I wonder why comedians always make fun of airplane food. I ordered the butter chicken option.

By the time we reached the hotel, it was 11:30 pm Maryland time.

Day 1

The first day of the conference started with complimentary breakfast, registration, and then the EUC World conference started.

On my way to the event, I ran into Holly Lehman, one of the people who runs the Omnissa Tech Insider program that I am a part of.

The first day of EUC World took place at the AFI Silver Theatre.

I got registered and picked up my badge.

It was neat that the day one took place at a theatre. I thought a theatre was an odd place to host a conference, but when you think about it, it makes sense as every room has many seats and projectors. The only thing you need to bring is the presentation. I suspect that helps simplify a lot.

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