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To be fair, the "technical" person at a conference does not mean "engineer". It's like a quarter tier past pure-salesperson. Obviously not an impressive showing overall, but I don't think it should be used as a judge of their technical talent.

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I understand that the people sent to a conference may not be highly knowledgeable about some of the companies products. However, if the company isn't going to at least train them for easy questions like why anyone should buy the product featured prominently in the booth's advertisements, then what was the point in renting vendor space?

[1] At a minimum, give them a handbook with the official answers for common questions.

Yea, watson's distinguishing features can't be "magic beans".

I didn't expect a discourse on topology, but Compare your X to Y, and knowing more than 1 use case is basic, basic, sales stuff

Seems like IBM latest sales strategy is I B M and stickers.

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