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209 days ago
Hynesite is one of several hands-on lab partners that support TechEd events worldwide. Deploying such a large number of virtual machine images to such a large number of machines (400+) is chaotic to begin with and than you add to that a crew that is constantly on the road and you get an interesting mix. The HOL team blog speaks for itself.
217 days ago
By popular annual demand I’m unveiling the one-of-a-kind TechEd 2009 bag. This year’s version is a messenger bag with olive green, gray & black. I think this year just might be my favorite…..hope everyone else agrees.
217 days ago
After ntpro’s Twitter entry today questioning my were ‘abouts I figured it was time to jump back on! It’s been a busy few months since my last blog entry back in January. Since then we piloted the first global 24hr virtual event titled TechDays Defy all Challenges that was run by Steven Salazar on my team. Although we only registered 5,000 developers worldwide the event was a huge success in terms of the reaction from the community and the quality of the content &speakers. We didn’t know if we could actually pull it off an online global event running 24hrs with 80 live sessions but the pilot was a success so you can expect more in the coming year. Back on the TechEd front, Susan Boyd on my team who is responsible for TechEd Online has moved mountains this year to re design and develop the site from the ground up over a 6 month period. The site was designed by Blast Radius out of Vancouver BC and is scheduled to launch tomorrow morning after countless hours of work by ...
308 days ago
It’s official, as of yesterday afternoon the TechEd North America 2009 sessions have released to the web and speaker notifications have gone out. https://www.msteched.com/sessionlist/default.aspx Currently (12:50 PM on Thursday) there are 282 sessions that have been released with another 138 sessions and 200 labs releasing over the following weeks. We will also be releasing speaker names and session abstracts as they are locked down.
312 days ago
Last week we spent a day-long meeting scrubbing through the “close to final” session list of 420 breakout sessions to be presented at TechEd North America this year. This year we broke a record with the number of submissions that came through from the community and Microsoft product groups with over 1,600 submissions. The submissions were impressive and going through the mass of sessions was a daunting task. We will begin release sessions to the web the first week of February and speakers will begin receiving notifications on Friday, Jan 30 of their session acceptances and declines. At a time when we are seeing a number of tech conferences being cancelled and other ones struggling to survive it’s good to see the interest in TechEd continue to climb which can only be attributed to quality content, top-notch speakers and experts onsite that customers tell is are the core reasons they are able to make the pilgrimage each year; well than there is the party too of course:-)
