Microsoft Convention - Belgium
Today I'm also very sure I'm a developer rather than a marketing guy. This was a purely marketing based event, and it really wasn't anything that fits me.
But allright, I took some pictures. First we have Bruno Segers with the Opening.
Right after this came Kevin Johnson.
Followed by Scott Woodgate.
He had a talk with Geert Verbeeck, Chief Architect of Sidmar.
In the afternoon were some more talks by various companies, and about certain MS products.
I liked the talk about Microsoft CRM. It's a really nice solution from what I've seen, very user friendly. Can't tell anything about the implementation or developing for it, as I simply didn't see it, marketing-only event, remember ;)
There was a hands-on session for SharePoint also, I liked this as well. SharePoint is nice, so nicely integrated, and so easy to use. Now I understand why so many people develop for it. Also had to chance to use a Pocket PC during this lab. And I'm convinced I'll never buy on myself at the current state. I find them quite useless, but I'm not a busines person, so I don't need anything for my appointments.
Other then that, I don't have much to tell, I won't be going back to day 2, because I don't have the money, especially not for marketing-only. I wanted to try it out once, to see what a marketing-only event was like. And I'll stick to developer events from now on, on those I don't have enough time to see anything that interests me, and especially not to do any hands-on labs, cos I'll miss a session then. But today I had plenty of time, and it's true what they say: on a dev event, everyone's right on time, everybody is too early, on a marketing event, no-one is.
Took some quick picture of myself as well ;)
And, I got a nice gadget as well, a clock! Here's a pic with the clock along with the USB Flashlight from DevDays 2004:
