TechEd New Zealand and Australia done and dusted

I'm finally back on deck properly after TechEd. It certainly was a hectic week for me.

Overall, I think the shows in Auckland and Sydney were both very good. Congratulations to the organisers in both places.

I found I couldn't quite do the level of preparation I normally do because of the number of sessions I was presenting. I think most of them were ok though. I hope you thought so.

One thing I'd like to canvas opinions on though is the material you'd like to see at TechEd. One change this year is that most of the presenters were redelivering someone else's material that was previously created for TechEd Boston. The up-side of this is that you get to see material that was already known to be popular at the U.S. TechEd. The downside is that the presenters don't have the same feel for (or perhaps passion for) the material they are delivering, as they didn't create it. Also, locally-produced materials that weren't presented at U.S. TechEd don't then see the light of day.

Thoughts???

Also, for those who follow my travel-related posts, it will come as no surprise that when I arrived in Auckland, my luggage didn't.  Mai and I were on QF400 from Melbourne to Sydney at 6am and it was cancelled at 6:20am and we had to get back off because of a fuel cell problem. We were moved to the 7am flight and then had much less connection time in Sydney before the flight to Auckland. What was annoying was that even though there were 3 more QF flights from SYD to AKL on Saturday, my bag didn't get to me till 4pm Sunday.