Discovery Summit

A pre-conference dinner was held in honor of newly inducted Steering Committee members, invited from the United States to be a part of the event.

JMP Systems Engineers answered questions at Ask-the-Experts demo stations, which were open during breaks and meals.

Simultaneous translation of plenaries and papers allowed Japanese speakers to understand the English talks, and the attendees from the United States to understand the Japanese presentations.

Williams College statistics professor Dick De Veaux modeled the effects of age on human sports performance during a plenary presentation.

Masayuki Kiriu of the Department of Social Psychology, Toyo University, gave the closing talk, which covered the statistics criminal profiling.

“I’m sure you’ve learned many new things today,” said John Sall during closing remarks and a dinner toast. He assured attendees that he learned from them as well, explaining how JMP’s development and each release is impacted by real-world applications and the new challenges users face.

Desserts tasted as good as they looked at Discovery Summit Japan, held at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo.

Musicians from the symphony play, Japanese strings called SHAMISEN, for a brief time at the closing dinner. All enjoyed traditional Japanese music and Michael Jackson’s “Beat it”.

Conversations came to a halt as the symphony guitarists played.

John Sall, SAS co-founder and Executive Vice President, said user feedback is one of the things he likes most about customer events. Here he takes notes while a translator facilitates a conversation with JMP users.