It’s been just over a year since my appearance at SAS Global Forum 2014 last year (if you can remember, I was the crazy one who memorized Pi to 1000 digits and wore silly colored glasses on stage while I recalled them), and since then I have been very busy. Just a week after last year’s event, I won the 2014 USA Memory Championship and broke a couple records (one for memorizing names and the other for memorizing numbers). Also, since then I placed 8th in the World Championships, and just one week ago I won the 2015 USA Memory Championships, winning it for the 4th time (I also broke another record - memorizing more names than last year)! Phew!

I’m excited to announce that later this month I will be back at SAS Global Forum 2015, but this time being involved in a few different things. Last year I was brought in as a keynote speaker to discuss memory techniques and the world of memory. Even though my speech was well-received, I wanted to come back this year and offer a few new unique and relevant insights into the memory world – ones that might be of great use for you throughout the event!

First, I will be participating in the First-Timers’ Session on Sunday at 4:30 pm, which is an event that gives first-timers or those that have not attended in a while a chance to get a sense of the whole event - the who, what, why, when, and how. I will be providing tips and techniques for remembering, so you can make the most out of all of your networking events, presentations and sessions.

More specifically, I will be teaching you how to remember names (in my opinion, one of the most important tools in networking and business in general), facts about the people you meet and how to remember connections you made at the conference as well. In terms of content, I will be sharing techniques and tips on how to maximize all the information that you will be encountering throughout the conference – basically, how you go about categorizing and managing all of the information you’ll be taking in from the different speakers and connections you make. To have a full-on and successful experience at SAS Global Forum, you need to be able to do this well! Don’t fret, I’ll show you how.

Next, I will be giving a smaller memory-related session presentation, but this time on how I use analytics to prepare myself for memory championships and how I use them to give myself an edge at these increasingly competitive competitions. I run heavy analytical analysis on all of the scores/data that I keep on my memory training to find what works best and most efficiently.

So make sure to catch either (or both!) of the talks. I’ll also be meandering around the The Quad meeting people and engaging with attendees in different and fun ways, so make sure to flag me down if you see me to give me your name to memorize, or if you’ve already met me, to test me and see if I can remember your name!