This was a new cultural experience, allowing people to engage with art and storytelling around diversity and inclusion. In addition, we had something different this year, what we’re calling PLTFRM. We have this cool show floor where partners of Splunk bring their technologies and meet customers. This was a company in the consumer products world. You just kind of walk out and do that.įrom there I went to another customer meeting. So literally walk out onstage, and I think we seated for 1,200 partners here for GPS. We bring in our top partners globally at our user conference, and I keynoted that event as well. I went immediately from there to our Partner Summit. Those are people I had not had the opportunity to engage with, so it’s great to understand how they’re thinking about the market and what’s happening. Then we went to meet the critical Gartner analysts that we work with that cover both security and observability. He’s super interesting, a research analyst who covers tech. And then it got publicized broadly across social media. I went immediately from there to an interview with an analyst that was livestreamed on LinkedIn. | Splunk studio interview with Daniel Newman This was with one of our larger customers in financial services, so really understanding their journey, exploring how they’re using the product and the customer outcomes we’re providing.ġ-2 p.m. I’ve only been here for two months, we had a lot of employees travel for the event and it was also a way for me to connect with more people. The other mission that I’m on is to meet more of the employee base. The lunch was with some internal Splunk employees. And we had 15 in-person media, and then we had a virtual version last week. We immediately went from the main stage keynote out to the press conference. You’re in an arena, and it’s a big venue with a lot of lights and complexity, so it’s a holistic experience. I think everybody’s craving that in-person experience. And we got a lot of really positive feedback. It was great to be on stage and communicating. And so this is just making sure that we’re synced up with the customers and it all works on a big stage with an audience of 5,000 people. One of the cool things here is we had a lot of engagement with customers and some great customer stories.
This is the orchestration with the speakers and all the logistics on stage. On this day, I was looking at the various events that I was keynoting and making sure I knew what I was going to say. This is time for reviewing my calendar, then anything I need to do to prep for specific meetings. And then it’s shower, get ready, check email and get ready for the day. I haven’t missed a workout day in three years, because it’s just important for my mental health. So I ran six miles on the streets of Vegas, on the strip. I ran, because the gym doesn’t open until 7 a.m. I get up at 4:45 a.m., which sounds awful. His schedule has been edited for brevity and clarity. I come back, I’m sweating, dripping wet, and there are two employees who walk with me back.” Even between meetings, Steele was walking with or talking to someone: “I walk out to the elevator to go for my run, and there’s a Wall Street analyst on the elevator. “I can’t go anywhere that people don’t recognize me,” he said of his time at the conference. “It’s all very casual, and that very casual nature allows you to get really good information.” “You get a whole different vibe, feeling and understanding when you’re with in person,” he said. At 5,000 in-person attendees and 20,000 virtual, it was big, and Steele was the star of the show. This was the first big, in-person user conference Splunk has held since the pandemic began, and Steele’s first as well.
Steele sat down with Protocol to walk through a not-so-typical day in his life: in this case, the first day of the Splunk conf22 User Conference on June 13 in Las Vegas.
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