My feelings about MVP Global Summit 2011. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you :)
MVP Summit 2011 is over now and a lot of things come to my mind after having experienced 3 days full of emotions, affinity, surprises, great content and hospitality.
A lot of details I could just find when getting close to Microsoft campus that said to me ‘Thank you MVPs. We were waiting for you and wanted to recognize your efforts’. Nice example of that were the banners all up around the campus:
Every detail were cared of, every place I visited and every talk I attended confirmed same message: ‘thanks MVPs’. Well, honestly I think that there would be very few companies that can hire a Baseball field to make a party for 1,500 people. Microsoft is one of them and it did it, including a rock band, many games and attractions the overcame my expectations.
I really want to thank you for recognizing our contributions, our knowledge, support but mainly our passion about Microsoft technologies and our profession.
I also would like to also share some conclusions of mine about the event itself:
- The greatest part of it as for me is the networking, the human interactions, new friends that you do during the event. I honestly feel I have a lot of new friends around the world and I really mean that.
- The break out sessions are really great. You do not frequently have in front of you the guys responsible for the product, answering your questions and asking for your feedback in order to make decisions regarding to the roadmap of the product. That’s awesome, really awesome.
- It’s a unique opportunity to see the #1 , Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) performing live for all of us, thanking also our efforts, answering questions and talking about Microsoft focuses. (not so many NDA content BTW, but it’s understandable).
- The same for Toby Richards (General manager for Community) and Nestor Portillo, the world wide director of Community. Actually he spent some minutes in the same table with us in the attendee party.
- It’s a awesome time you can charge your batteries. The overall environment, the campus, the spirit of the interactions, new ideas from other fellows, roadmap about the products, new opportunities and community activities at least for me are like a bath of optimism.
- I am really a bad baseball player :p). I tried to hit some balls in the Safeco Field with no luck :( .
Hope I could transmit somehow the feelings, the thanks and the spirit of the event. Without any doubts, it was totally worth more than 20 hours of travelling and really hope to be on MVP Summit 2012 :).
PP.