We kicked off our first locally held User Summit at the Hilton in Woburn, MA this past Tuesday, July 13, with attendees from the Boston area as well as from companies and organizations all across the country. 

It was great to see so many different industries gathered under one roof! A few names that come to mind: 24 Hour Fitness, MD Anderson Cancer Center, American Museum of Natural History, NIEHS, ASA, BabyCenter.com, Harvard Law School, Mathworks, Right Management, Virginia Tech and WWF.

Highlights included presentations by Percussion customers and staff: 

Brian LaBrake (left) V.P. of Business Applications/ Right Management unveiled brand new site designs from his company’s offices all around the globe— including multilingual and cultural personalization tips in his presentation. Pictured chatting with Nick Lombardi (right) Percussion Worldwide Director Technical Support & IT, who presented the new Support Portal.

Dinos Papoulias (left) Web Producer, World Wildlife Federation chats with Stephen Bolton (right) Solutions Architect from Percussion Professional Services. Stephen presented new best practices and shared code on how to design templates for mobile websites.

Vern Imrich, Percussion CTO presents the company roadmap for 2010.

Ryan Choi (left) Web Architect, AMNH & Michelle Foley (right) Business Application Analyst, MathWorks brought good cheer.

Judy Gosiengfiao (left) 24 Hour Fitness and Jon Ball (right) Web producer, BabyCenter traveled from the West Coast to attend the event.

Dermot Conner (left) Web Development Specialist, MD Anderson chats with Paul Howard (right) Chief Software Architect, Percussion.

Jason Macauley (left) Director of Consulting, Percussion, Dana Miller (center) Customer Service Manager, Percussion chatting with Judy Gosiengfiao (front right) Business Application Analyst, 24 Hour Fitness, and Jay Seletz (back right) Engineering Director, Percussion.

Thank you to all the Percussion Customers and Staff for a healthy turnout. It was an excellent opportunity to match names to faces, and to share best practices across the board. We’ve already started planning the next conference to be held in California next year. 

We hope to see you again soon! 

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