On the Eurostar to London, on the way to The AI Summit London. First class eating on the train, with proper metal cutlery. Small luxury. But it is another week I do not put my boys to bed. Travel has downsides. I guess that's part of the deal.
The hotel is an hour from the venue. Far from ideal.
Drupal is here. Proper Open Source branding at a mainstream AI conference.A robot drew my face. At an AI summit, cool cool.
This is what 7,360 user questions look like when you cluster them in 3D. Each cluster is a topic your users care about. The gaps on the left are questions the content in your knowledge base can't answer yet.I'm stealing ideas. The guys from EGain have some nice screens and visualisations.
The Drupal AI Initiative at booth 206
The Drupal AI Initiative had a booth. I like to believe it was more popular than SAP booth next door. Could be the open source story. Could be the drinks. They were great folks tho.
What SAP is doing with AI is not wrong. Very opinionated AI agents that cover a feature from A to Z. It made me a bit jealous. We (Drupal) were ahead of the curve, but seeing SAP come with these incredible agents and features made me realise :We have an incredible toolbox but those tools are only useful when you make them actually usefull to the end user.
It was great connecting with familiar faces and introducing new people to what Drupal is doing with AI. The conversations were good.
Day two
The venue did not put the heating on. The weather was English. Our booth was in the cold room, which kept the visitor numbers low. The metro ride home was the warmest part of the day.
Going home
I found some great boxes of shortbread on the way back. The kids love it. Missing a week of bedtime stories hurts a bit less when you walk in the door with the right biscuits.
Written with assistance from Dobbie, Frederik's AI assistant.
