.conf+ 2025, Boston and Salem

Some time ago, probably in 2024, I got invited to get on the executive track for .conf called .conf+, which is probably 10 times cooler than just going to .conf.

Better food, nicer chairs, guided everything, and the focus is where I need it to be, on the money and the value of the product.

Because I had a lot of time before going to Boston, I invited my wife and some of her friends to visit the area and check out some of the wonderful things to do in Massachusetts; like Boston Tea party, ghost tours, and of course, Salem and the witchy stuff there.

I traveled in on Sunday but the conference didn’t start until Monday evening, so I worked most of the day and then when it was time to meet it was a nice keynote with founders. I then met up with our rep for dinner with some other Centene folks. The next day, it was a little early for me, but there was executive breakfast then guided walk over to our seats in the front of the conference for the next day’s keynotes and talks. We then had lunch and went to the .conf+ area with the big comfy chairs and listened to talks for the rest of the day. It ended with Tom Brady and we got to take pictures with him.

It was pretty cool listening to Tom Brady and Jeetu led him to some serious questions about leadership and drive. I thought it was really neat and I’m now a Tom Brady fan to an extent. Doesn’t mean I’ll start tuning into his Fox Sports show. To wrap things up, I had dinner with the Centene team again with our Splunk rep.

Jaime flew in that night and I was very happy to see her! I didn’t have any more conference commitments to deal with.

I skipped my workout the next morning and I’m glad I did, we went everywhere in Boston, and my step count was very large!

The next day we went to Harvard and visited their museum, ate at Quincy market, checked out some of the city, and then went on a night tour of some graveyards and talked about ghosts!

I was really impressed with Harvard’s little museum, it was packed with all sorts of things I didn’t expect, like full size dinosaurs and whales.