Conferences and Keynote Ideas

This month has required a lot of work related travel. 

 

I was in Wisconsin for a user-group event last Saturday (http://www.wi-ineta.org/). I actually arrived Friday night at mid-night, did a 2 hour talk starting at 9:45am, and was on my way to the airport back shortly past noon – which meant 16 hours of travel to/from Seattle via Minneapolis but only a little over 12 hours total in Wisconsin itself.

 

I am heading down late tomorrow night for the SD West conference in San Jose (http://www.sdexpo.com/) where I am giving two talks Wednesday morning before heading back to Seattle that afternoon.

 

I just realized today that I am also then heading to Orlando this weekend to give the keynote and two breakout talks at the ASP.NET Connections conference (http://www.asp-connections.com/).  For some reason I thought this was the following weekend, and so need to now come up with a good 45 minute keynote topic in the next few days.

 

I’m looking for suggestions on what to talk about.  I have a standard one that I give on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer 2005, but which I’m growing bored giving, so would love to hear suggestions on new things to cover.  I was originally thinking about doing one on IIS7 and showing that off, but think it might be better to wait until the fall for that (so that the main focus stays on Whidbey and what people will be able to-do this year as opposed to next).

 

Two other keynote possibilities:

 

1) Talk about the end-to-end lifecycle of building/maintaining applications.  Show of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio – but then also show off VSTS support for web apps and talk about enterprise deployments and such.

 

2) Provide an inside look into how we build ASP.NET.  Walkthrough the Microsoft development process, how we structure teams and projects, and what all we do during the product cycle to get to a shipping state.  I actually think this talk could be a lot of fun.

 

Thoughts?  Preferences?  I’d be very interested in what people think would be cool to hear.

 

12 Comments

  • I think people would enjoy #2

  • I think some hard core programmers (think C++ background) need to be reassured that ASP.NET 2.0 isn't just for PhP programmers. I just taught DevelopMentor's ASP.NET 2.0 course to a group from MSFT and many weren't so keen on many of the hands-off declarative features. I think there's still many nice features for the hard core dev. Show them what they're missing :)

  • Scott,



    Sounds like you're a busy man! I won't be attending, but I vote for #2. I'd love to see that kind of presentation.



    Eagerly awaiting Whidbey...

  • I agree -- go with #2. It was good to see you in Wisconsin. Thanks for the info on IIS 7.



    -- The guy who asked you about IIS 7 at lunch

  • I'd go with Topic 2 as well. Assuming you do go in that direction, any way it could be posted on channel 9 or somewhere else? (or possible notes / slides here on your site)



    thanks

  • Well, I'l be there and #2 sounds like the most interesting,.

    (I don't need another "mile high" 2.0 talk thats for sure!)



    Of course the main criteria for success should be how many laughs you can generate.

  • Having seen you do #1 at the ASP Insiders meeting last year I have to choose that one. It was the most interesting presentation that I've seen in a long time and you have it already, right?



    Either are going to be a cut above the normal walkthrough though.

  • I saw your keynote in Vegas and will be in attendence Sunday night when you keynote down here in Florida, and while i like the idea of #2 (which seems to be along the lines of the "Channel 9" interviews you did), nothing can beat the "wow" factor of your presentation in Vegas where in 45 mins you had that whole application more or less d-o-n-e. That was incredible and really got people excited for the DevConnections seminars.



    Just my 2 cents

  • #1 sounds more like a keynote presentation to me, although #2 would be extremely interesting to hear as well.

  • One of the most memorible highlights of my first tech preview was the tour of the testing lab and the discussion we had on how the ASP.net manages projects. A presentation that presented a walk through and demos would be truly amazing.



    Wisconsin was fun, great to see you again.

  • Definitely #2 simply because so many organizations suck at that sort of thing so badly!

  • #2 sounds incredibly interesting, but #1 is more interesting to me pragmatically speaking.

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