I give my heartfelt gratitude to the C4 volunteers, speakers and attendees. The best thing I can say about C4 is that I know it changed many lives for the better, including mine.

I’m really grateful that I was able to be a C4 alum, and while I can’t really appreciate all the hard work that Jon put into C4 each year, I can definitely admire the results.

I met a whole rogue’s gallery of interesting folks, learned a lot, and in all three years I attended combined I spent less than one year at WWDC. Chicago is in a sweet spot for conferences in terms of accessibility. You can easily get to it from either coast and from places in between.

I’m terribly sad to see it end, but on the upside: no more of that Chicago “pizza”.