I attended the UKSG annual conference in Glasgow from 8-10 April 2024, at the Scottish Events Campus. I thought the SEC looked like a croissant and it turns out that it looking like a croissant and armadillo is a known thing.
It is a huge conference with 760 attendees from 26 countries this year and it was my first time attending. The conference is so big, that there is a dedicated app to help you organise your time and network etc. There was a gamification aspect, where the more you engaged with the app and other people on it, you were put on a leaderboard. For a good while I was in there at number 5. Unfortunately, the competition was fierce and I dropped out of the top 10 fairly quickly.
I was asked to attend with both my C&ERs and my liaison roles in mind, and because the conference was massive with a packed schedule, I’m doing a blog posting for each day.
- Day 1 [coming soon!]
- Day 2 [coming soon!]
- Day 3 [coming soon!]
Free time
As I arrived on Sunday afternoon, I took a walk after checking into the hotel and saw the outside of the Kelvingrove Art Museum (it was already closed!) and had some dinner.
I was quite chuffed to have a view of the Clyde from the Premier Inn. A much nicer and safer-feeling hotel stay than the one Leanne and I experienced in Liverpool for LILAC 2018. We will tell you about that if you ask us.
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