A few things missing
After what I thought was a “technically dull” Tech.Ed last year, I thought we can look at a few aspects of this year not just technically but as an event to see what’s missing.
- Food - This morning morning tea and lunch efforts have been some what interesting. The catering staff don’t have the event session end times lined up with lunch and people have been queuing for 15 Minutes before being able to get a feed.
- Drinks – These were non existant this morning at morning tea. Lunch time has proven to look better, but even looking around the venue, they have not provided the Coke fridges around the venue this year, just water coolers.
- Presenters - Steve Riley & Jeff Alexander both missing, Steve is no longer with the company and Jeff is overseas after the passing of his father last week. Our condolences to Jeff and his family during this tough time.
- Slow Internet – Yes, it’s missing, man it’s so annoying to have fast internet! Joke Joke – Well done to the team for getting this going. It has been pretty shit hot so far!
- Keynote – The quality, or lack there of in the keynote was pretty poor compared to the Dreamworks or motion picture guy they had featured two years ago if memory serves me correctly. People were tweeting about how it was putting them to sleep. IMHO a keynote really needs to grab people and engage them to psyc them up for what the event holds, this morning was a sales pitch with a pinch of snooze and dash of why am I here thrown in.
Share your thoughts with us and we’ll be sure to pass them on to the event organisers.
Tech.Greg
Sure, it’s not TechEd 08. But it is TechEd 09, and its what you make of it. More giveaways last year – fun but not essential. Catering not as good in terms of service and preparation – but at least some of the food has been great.
There are always glitches, could have beens, and should have beens. But what matters is the networking and the learning. And I’ve had plenty of that already, and still 2 days to go. Give props where props is due!
Oh yeah one more thing. I must’ve missed it, but where on earth are the session ratings this year. Website does leave a lot to be desired …
Hey Tech.Greg,
Yep the Keynote was a snooze, even the I’m a PC guy was to be honest a bit lame, not really a ra-ra effort more of a ho-hum. I was at the Gold Coast for TE 2007 and remember the Animal Logic presentation, how they worked on 300 and Happy Feet and the Carlton Draft Big Horse ad. That was a good Keynote.
On the Plus side Vittoria gave an awesome presentation on SEC305 on Windows Identity Foundation, a bit of new tech that wil make developers lives easier once we can get the back-end stuff set up (ie the trusted identity management systems). He did a great job of what could have been a very dry topic.
I managed to get to Sara Ford’s presentation on Codeplex and was also impressed with that. I’m now going to make sure that I get to her other presso on Thursday, she was perhaps the best of the presenters at the Keynote.
Well that was Day 1. Lets see how Days 2 &3 go.
Hi Matt,
You can do the session ratings inside CommNet. There is a little icon on your schedule that allows you to complete the feedback forms.
Greg