CeBit 2015 – “Fresh Impulses for Digital Business”, innovations everywhere, and in the middle of it our Smart Wine Shelf. A prototype we developed about a year ago… Of course we had some new things with us as well! Funky Retail and Tiles completed our little IoT family. Everything started well on the Monday. Ian Kimbell, SAP’s chief presenter and self-appointed ‘Demo Guy’, showed our Wine Shelf (with physical web beacon) on SAP’s own stage.
But then on Friday, when Sven entered the stage, things looked like this…
…empty spaces, abandoned places… but the show had to go on. Bravely Sven tried to attract more attention by letting the Wine Shelf flash, showing videos of Funky Retail, and even setting up the colourful Tiles demo live on stage, always thinking “Did everyone realise that I don’t really prepare these kind of presentations…?”. To be fair on Sven though, it’s not easy when you’re contending with a solar eclipse… Slightly unlucky timing. So unlucky that even your colleagues turn their backs on you…
Sven took it with a big smile and now refers to the whole thing as #darkpresentation. And he did get his audience in the end…
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