The annual greatest festival for Local Guides, Connect Live was held in San Jose, California. This year, the number of attendees increased from 150 to 200 and grew into a bigger event.
Pre/Post-event
I arrived in US two days before Connect Live. Fortunately, I was able to enjoy those two days together with @OSAMA . They were absolutely amazing days!! We enjoyed sightseeing at Stanford University, silicon valley, and so forth, joined [Recap] 36walk San Jose (meetup #80 by me!) by @PaulPavlinovich and Pizza Meetup in San Jose by @manulele81. Those pre-meetups were really exciting events and completely suited for motivating us before the main event. And on the 15th morning, on the last day of Connect Live, I joined a morning coffee meet-up by @KarenVChin too. The place, Philz Coffee is familiar in San Francisco and gives me a surprise every time. I tried a pink coffee called “Rose”, it was also nice.
Connect Live 2019
We spent a great four days together with 200 attendees from all over the world. Not only enjoying parties, but we also experienced wonderful speeches, group discussions, fieldwork, and so forth. And we earned a lot of insight and knowledge from the event and Local Guides.
We made friends with a lot of Local Guides via various opportunities during the event. One of the properties of Connect Live is connections with people. We shared our knowledge, experience, skills, and passion with each other. This connection and relationship will change us.
The official album of Connect Live is here. And the recap video is here. You can easily make sense of the details of how the event was via them.
Gifts
Connect Live attendees were given a lot of gifts and souvenirs. The special backpack, t-shirt, and a water bottle are in common every year. In addition to them, we were given Pixel 3 xl, Local Guides socks, and a Pegman pin badge. They are absolutely amazing gifts from Google.
Souvenirs from Local Guides were also great. For instance, Snacks, badges, key holders, postcards, and instant noodles. All of them were unique and very interesting.
By the way, do you know a proposal, #findpegman. This is a very simple proposal as just post a photo with Pegman on SNS with the hashtag. Attendees, please read below and try to do it.
Let’s share photos of Pegman with #findpegman
From Japan
This year, 6 people ( @Yucco , @Yasuyo , @Shota_2020 , @ken_jp , @jjwalsh ) joined Connect Live from Japan. We gathered in a hotel room and enjoyed conversation at night, celebrated one’s birthday, and worked together on a lot of things during the event. Thank you for everything! By all means, let’s enjoy Local Guides together from now on.
By the way, ken_jp was awarded a prize, ”Most videos (2019) among Connect Live attendees”. Congratulations!
Takisawamet 2
Takisawamet 2 that I introduced here before was brought to Connect Live 2019. And I collected attendees and Googlers’ signatures on the helmet. Thanks to all, I succeeded to complete the wonderful helmet. That is my treasure. I’ll take 360-degree photos and SVs using this.
Making a 360-degree camera mounted helmet Part 2
Conclusion
Connect Live is not just a perk, it is one of the amazing motivating events for passionate Local Guides all over the world. Attendees, what did you discover at Connect Live? Please share it with your neighbors, and let’s increase friends in your region who are able to enjoy Local Guides together.
Thank you for the Local Guides Team and all attendees. I hope to see you again somewhere in the world soon.
