{"id":14555,"date":"2013-05-20T19:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2013-05-20T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:18:16","slug":"looking-forward-to-teched-north-america-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14555","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward To TechEd North America 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a busy schedule on at the moment.&#160; This week I\u2019m delivering a 2 day VMM course in Dublin, prepping a custom 3-day hands-on ConfigMgr course for next week, recording a \u201cwebcast\u201d on Windows 8 in the business.&#160; Next week I deliver the aforementioned ConfigMgr course, and then travel to Copenhagen for the E2EVC conference where I\u2019m doing the Microsoft virtualization\/cloud keynote.&#160; And then at sunrise on that Sunday, I fly from Copenhagen to New Orleans for <a href=\"http:\/\/northamerica.msteched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechEd North America 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had a choice of conferences this year.&#160; I didn\u2019t fancy MMS 2013 because it was at the wrong point in the lifecycle of System Center.&#160; And to be honest, I found last year\u2019s MMS to be more of a \u201chere\u2019s what you can do\u201d rather than a \u201chere\u2019s how to do it\u201d.&#160; This was valuable to me because I was new to things like Orchestrator, and Service Manager (I still am).&#160; This year, I wanted a more level 300\/400 event.&#160; That leaves TechEd North America (New Orleans, LA), and TechEd Europe (Madrid) a few weeks later in June.&#160; I opted for the NA event because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u2019s, if it happens before Build as many suspect, where \u201cBlue\u201d will be revealed \u2013 bits aren\u2019t being shared until the Build week at the end of June<\/li>\n<li>The American speakers usually feature more product group members than the Europe conference \u2013 where too many local marketeers get to speak.&#160; I really value what the experts share.&#160; Go listen to folks like Claus Joergensen <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/TechEd\/NorthAmerica\/2012?sort=sequential&amp;direction=desc&amp;term=&amp;s=claus%2Bjoergensen\" target=\"_blank\">talk about storage in previous years<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Even with the higher flight costs, TechEd NA is much cheaper than TechEd Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to the event a lot.&#160; Folks like Didier Van Hoye have <a href=\"http:\/\/workinghardinit.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/06\/if-you-can-you-should-attend-teched-2013-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about the value of this event.&#160; This is where we go to learn about possibilities.&#160; In recent years, we\u2019ve seen the return of deep tech sessions \u2013 much of what I\u2019ve written or spoken about I\u2019ve learned from TechEd sessions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve done TechEd.&#160; In the last 2 years I\u2019ve stayed at home and watched the keynotes live and the sessions 24-36 hours later on the <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/TechEd\/NorthAmerica\/2013#fbid=wEWN-u8Bwpk\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 9 website<\/a>. That is good, but there\u2019s a value to being there in person:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No work distractions<\/li>\n<li>You get to meet the experts in the halls or after the sessions<\/li>\n<li>You can ask questions \u2013 try asking an AVI file a question <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wlEmoticon-smile2.png\" \/><\/li>\n<li>And the networking opportunities are invaluable too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year will be a strange one for me.&#160; The Petri IT Knowledgebase has arranged a press pass for me.&#160; So, I\u2019ll be an attending MVP (not doing a booth) and a member of the media!&#160; Another first for me will be that my publisher is arranging a book signing for one of the lunch breaks.&#160; I feel weird signing a book for just one person (I\u2019m no celebrity) so doing a book signing will be peculiar \u2026 I hope no one asks me to sign their boobs \u2026 think about who attends tech conferences and you\u2019ll get my meaning <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Open-mouthed smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you see a jetlagged, sweaty, overweight, Irish dude with really bad jetlag, wandering the halls of TechEd in 2 weeks, then that\u2019ll be me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9aaa3002-6450-4587-ad98-0a95861b5412\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Events\" rel=\"tag\">Events<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a busy schedule on at the moment.&#160; This week I\u2019m delivering a 2 day VMM course in Dublin, prepping a custom 3-day hands-on ConfigMgr course for next week, recording a \u201cwebcast\u201d on Windows 8 in the business.&#160; Next week I deliver the aforementioned ConfigMgr course, and then travel to Copenhagen for the E2EVC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=14555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking Forward To TechEd North America 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}