TechEd 2007 :: Day 2

Published 05 June 07 06:23 PM | despos

They say there should be approx 14,000 people here at the Orange County Convention Center. Either who counted is wrong or the place is really huge and even 14,000 people look scattered around.

The official count says 9431 paid attendees, plus approx 5,000 other staff people, including myself. If all these people (who paid) are here, it's obviously the place that's so HUGE. Which is true indeed. It takes you minutes to get from the South to the North building. It's not my case, but I guess what could be of a speaker scheduled two consecutive talks in the North and South buildings :)

I just finished my first talk, codenamed SOA324 about hosting and deploying workflows as Web and WCF services. I had kind of 80 people. Not much if really 9000+ attendees are here. Or perhaps most of them are IT pros? :) Or was it that my session didn't look attractive because of lack of 2008/Orcas coverage (which was by design)?

Anyway, I'd say that the session was good and I caught very interested expressions/faces in the audience in both sides. This is normally a very good indicator of the success of a session. I'll look at the eval scores.

By the way, find attached the sample code I demo'd during the session.

 

 

 

Comments

# Steven Nagy said on June 5, 2007 05:44 PM:

Great work Dino. Are you coming to Australia TechEd to talk? The gold coast is lovely, even though it will be winter.

# Brennan Stehling said on June 5, 2007 10:08 PM:

I hope you can post a video of your session. I would like to see how you mix the WF and WCF bits.

# phat shantz said on June 6, 2007 11:10 AM:

Don't worry about the apparent under-attendance of your session.  Everyone outside the door is running from session to session, trying to find the "silver bullet" that will save their current, flagging project.

At least you won't be lumped in the technologies that promised, but didn't deliver -- and led to another project failure (in the eyes of the failed manager).

It is good to stay out of the limelight -- for praise or blame, no?

Your attendees, should they harken to your words, will not be among the scurrying masses next year.  They are doing their due diligence today for tomorrow's projects.

# Andriy said on June 10, 2007 12:20 PM:

Thanks for great talk Dino.

Don't worry about attendance, at least you showed up, unlike whoever was supposed to do a set of sessions on "Silverlight" :)

# Stephen Kean said on June 16, 2007 08:30 AM:

As always, you ripped open the technology and presented loads of useful info.  Thanks again for agreat presentation.

# Bert said on June 18, 2007 05:40 AM:

Don't worry about counts. Everybody there listened and you told us usefull things.

Thanks for the great presentation

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