[Zach O]

One of my favorite conferences at the Championship event was Karthik's "Effective FIRST Strategies". From the beginning, his energy and enthusiasm was enough to carry the presentation, but it didn't need to. It was in depth, interesting, informational, and I enjoyed that he listened to his audience and took questions as it went. If I only got to attend one conference over the weekend, I would have defiantly picked his. I noticed where some things we do in our scouting come from, and after seeing the presentation I'm inspired to improve upon our own scouting and develop some new technology/methods for scouting and data!

Unfortunately, he was only able to get though about half (if not under half) of his presentation. It was very informational, and I would have LOVED to hear him talk more, but they had to get ready for the next conference after his. He was nice enough though to field some questions and talk to people outside during the next conference. I've downloaded the 2009 presentation online, and if anyone has the 2010 or knows where the 2010 with him talking is, please PM me! I hope it won't end up like 2009's, when I didn't get to go to ATL and he didn't want it streamed. I was disappointed.