This article featured in the July 2018 edition of benchmark "Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Believe the Hype?"

In this series of articles, I started by discussing the spreadsheet as a computing environment developed with a primary goal of supporting the paradigm of end-user computing. Because of this, the ‘normal’ spreadsheet is utterly devoid of any of the structure that normally allows us, as simulation engineers, to express and formulate problems of flow or structural mechanics for solution. This article differs from its predecessors in that first I wish to share with you my impressions of an event I was given the opportunity to attend.