It’s a reuse of the Office partner training label, but it’s simple and I like it: Microsoft Ignite. Hopefully my Speaker Idol win carries over, I don’t screw up in Barcelona, and I get to speak there!
This is bigger than MEC, TechEd, and the other tech conferences being merged:
- Azure
- Exchange
- Intune
- Lync
- Office 365
- Project
- SharePoint
- SQL Server
- Surface
- System Center
- Visual Studio
- Windows
- Windows Server
- And more
At the same prices as TechEd, this is a much higher value ticket because of the bigger breadth of content that you can absorb.
I still think this is a bad idea. The company I work for won’t be able to send the Exchange guys, the server guys, the SCCM guys, etc. all to this conference. And the Exchange guys don’t know what the SCCM guys want to look for, and they don’t know what the server guys are interested in.
So, instead of having specialized conferences we’re just going to have one giant one and hope it makes everyone happy?