After a rather poor night’s sleep, I was up and about at 7am
and heading back to the production room to do some work. I was quite surprised to find I was not the
first there. But it seemed all the guys
that beat me had the same sleeping issues.
Our main focus going in to the day was the two interviews we
had to conduct with Eva Castillo and Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete and we were as
organised as a Jigsaw Puzzle.
A spot of breakfast and all of a sudden things were getting
put into plan.
We had a Think Big School session to go to before our main
event and we sent out Paul, Ondrej and Jana to cover that while Antonio and
Raul went out and captured some Campuseros on film. I was left back to work on the interview
questions.
Once I was happy with what needed to be asked, I went for a
little wander around to Campus and took in a small bit of the Gaming zone. On
the big screens they were showing FIFA 13, Counterstrike Global Offensive and
DOTA 2 being played.
I then had a look at the Microsoft stands where they have a
3D printer and the Xbox One on show.
After chatting to a couple of their guys, I am hoping to get an
interview later on (fingers crossed).
It then came to the interviews and I am not afraid to say I
was a bit nervous being with Jose Maria.
But once I got underway it just flowed and felt good. I did it first in English and then Antonio
conducted the same interview in Spanish.
While Antonio did his bit, I even got to chat with two of
the guys from the Wayra start-up TankTopTV and gave them a bit of good feedback
and suggestions.
After the interviews had concluded and we did a little wrap
up nodding, we had a follow up to the mornings Think Big School to conclude
before having a few hours to kill,
I went for another wander and managed to run into K9. For those that are not Doctor Who fans or
only think Doctor Who existed from 2005 onwards, K9 was the 4th
Doctors faithful robot dog companion. I
instantly had to pet him and have my photo taken.
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| I was love at first sight |
I also found the O2 3D printer and hope to have a small bust
of myself made up in colour.
Unfortunately I failed in my attempts to get an interview
with Microsoft due a PR issues.
Nevermind, at least I got to play Call of Duty Ghosts for a short while.
When I returned to the production room to prepare for the
nights discussion panel, we had a surprise visitor in the guise of Beardyman,
who drew a fair amount of attention.
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| Beardyman crashes the Production Room |
Our evenings work was to capture a Discussion Panel focusing
on digital confidence that included Ronan Dunne, the Information Commissioner
Christopher Graham and Sandy Pentland.
After the Panel had concluded, I was able to get interviews with Sandy
Pentland and young hacker and entrepreneur Luis Ivan Cuende.
That concluded the days required work so hopefully it is
time to get a good nights sleep.
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