This was the first Chicago Sitecore meetup this year. It is always great to see familiar faces at these things and reconnect. Some of the attendees I have worked with in the past and/or is a client of Paragon. Also a lot of them I follow on Twitter, but have not met in person so it is good to put the name and face together.

I am not going to lie I always look forward to the food at these things. Lou Malnati’s is my favorite pizza. The bling is also nice too.

The first presentation was done Ahmed Okour and James Gregory from American Eagle, “Deep Dive into Sitecore Installation Framework”.

A lot of the stuff they went over were things I encountered doing my first Sitecore 9 install. It was nice to get a better picture on what happens behind the scenes. On another note I had to hold back the laughs along with others as the words “SIFless” and “Sharding” were mentioned.

The next presentation was done by Naim Al and James Gregory from American Eagle, “Understanding Sitecore Custom Analytics and Power BI”.

This was in interesting one. There was the out of the box Sitecore tool introduced as well as a third-party tool. Very useful stuff for Marketers.

After the presentations were over it was time to go. Not before snapping a few goodbye picks. I am hoping the next Chicago Sitecore meetup will be soon.