Making Conferences Magical: The Story Behind the Art Plotter

How is it that HashiCorp produces such amazing conferences? What the heck is an art plotter? Learn a bit more about the inner workings of Experiential Design and Marketing as well as how the art plotter installation is orchestrated with HashiCorp tools.

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1. Making Conferences Magical Michael Lange Engineer at HashiCorp The Story Behind the Art Plotter
2. What? Why? How? 1 2 3
3. What? Why? How? 1 2 3
4. What? Why? How? 1 2 3
5. AxiDraw Pen plotter from Evil Mad Scientist https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/890# Image credit:
8. What? Why? How? 1 2 3
12. Turning an Event into an Experience
14. Jana Boruta Director of Event & Experiential Marketing Cris Dobbins Experiential Designer
16. JT Designer (obviously)
17. Wouldn’t it be cool if we had a plotter, for, like, event things?
21. Turning an Event into an Experience, but, like, with a plotter
22. What makes the plotter special? ▪ Unlike any other conference swag ▪ Can make unique artwork, makes it feel personal ▪ The plotter itself serves as a performance ▪ Surprising and delighting!
25. experience++
26. “Every year I think we peak, but then we outdo ourselves.” – Maybe a real quote from someone. I’ll never say.
27. plotter++
28. What? Why? How? 1 2 3
30. 1. Two plotters 2. Two tablets 3. A laptop 4. Another computer 5. IoT buttons 6. 900 sheets of paper 7. 45 Pens 8. Magnets ✨
31. 1. Packer 2. Terraform 3. Consul 4. Nomad 5. Fabio 6. A gaggle of VMs in GCP 7. A webhooks service 8. A preview service 9. Two plot dispatch jobs 10. A local AxiDraw state machine service 11. Algorithmic data art
33. Generating an SVG
34. Plotting the SVG
35. http://services.plot.technology:9999/preview
36. Thank You hello@hashicorp.com www.hashicorp.com