TechEd New Zealand

Published Mon, Aug 2 2004 20:53 | GregLow

I arrived in Auckland yesterday for TechEd NZ. It's an impressive event. I'm told there are 1800 delegates. Seeing the queues today, I can believe it. Congrats to the organising team!

Last night I attended the speakers dinner at the top of the Sky Tower. It was great to catch up with many people. At our table, I was speaking to Peter O'Dowd (just made an MVP - congrats Pete), Valentine Boairkine, Jesper Johansson, Michael Leworthy, Nate Muggli, Ben Smith, Brian Komar and his lovely wife (Krista?). Quite a mixture and an interesting night.

Today, I attended a couple of sessions by Prashant Sridharan on Visual Studio Team Services - very impressive, the MattMan (Matty Hardman) on VS2005 VB enhancements - always entertaining, Brian Randell on Yukon data features - very energetic and fast paced! Got to speak with Scott Woodgate and Tony Goodhew then also got to have dinner with Joel Pobar and Mitch Denny. That rounded out the day really well.

Gotta love TechEd!