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Presences at Conferences Virus Bulletin, September 2002, New Orleans AVIEN and the newly created AVI-EWS were represented by Robert Vibert, Administrator
Helen Martin, Editor of VB and hostess for the conference, wrote in her report "Robert Vibert gave a few delegates a rude awakening by catapulting doughnuts into the unsuspecting audience. Prior to the food fight he had been charting the growth of AVIEN since its inception at the VB conference in Orlando two years ago and detailing the progress of some of AVIEN's ongoing projects." Needless to say, you have to keep an eye on the press. The fact is that at no time did a doughnut touch Robert's hand. In the photo below, you can see that Ken is armed with a doughnut launcher..
In this photo, we see the AVIEN Anti-Mal-ware outfit modeled by Ken Bechtel, with Nick Fitzgerald hiding behind his computer to the right. (photo by Jessica Johnston)
A closer view of the two mad, err... dedicated scientists who work in AVIEN labs, designing new products. (photo by Jessica Johnston)
A shot of the speakers who were rounded up for the photo at the end. Robert Vibert is third from the left, front row. Beside him is John Morris, another AVIEN member. The David (aka David Perry) is beside John, and then we have John Alexander, another AVIEN member. Back row, with just his head visible, six from the left, is James Wolfe (AVIEN), as well as Martin Overton (AVIEN) in 11th position from the left, in the beige shirt and trousers (can't say "pants" - he's a Brit). Four more over to the right is Joe Donovan in the green shirt (AVIEN). AVI-EWS members were also to be found in abundance. In the above photo, with his head right under the green globe is Andreas Marx. In the front row, First from the left is Klas Schöldström, David Perry and in the green shirt, second from the far right is Kurt Natvig. Almost every one of the dozens of AVIEN folks who attended VB 2002 wore an exclusive AVIEN pin on their badge. Soon, it was getting hard to find a group that did not have an AVIEN presence.
Here's a good example of that - in the photo above, of the Speakers Panel at the end of the conference, we see that the four people on the right side are members of AVI-EWS and/or AVIEN (from far right to left, Righard, Jeannette, John, and Andreas.)
In the photo above, Robert Vibert, Administrator and Chief Sacrificial Lamb of AVIEN presents the AVIEN and AVI-EWS projects to the meeting of AVPD (Anti-Virus Product Developer consortium, run by ICSAlabs). As you can see by other photos, the meeting went well - he survived to coordinate doughnut launches on the final day. In fact, AVIEN and AVPD established an agreement to have AVIEN represented at future AVPD meetings. |
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