TechEd, the World's Largest Microsoft-focused Conference, to get a Little Smaller...
Kevin Remde announces some big changes to TechEd on his blog. It appears that Microsoft is recognizing the unwieldiness of holding one of the most supremely large IT conferences in the business today. So, they're going to break it up into two smaller conferences.
According to Kevin, there are three reasons why Microsoft is making htis change...
Reason 1 - TechEd U.S. is just so darn huge!We sell out practically every year, which means there are a lot of people who miss out and don't get to attend. And that's sad. But the realities of handling the logistics of making one of the biggest technology event anywhere even bigger were just too much. There aren't enough cities and venues available that can really handle anything bigger than what we've been throwing at them. So splitting this up makes it easier logistically, while at the same time providing a great opportunity for even more people to come to a TechEd.
Reason 2 - Developers! IT Pro! IT Pros!Yeah.. I know.. the chant is "Developers! Developers! Developers!..." But the ratio at TechEd really has been more like 1/3 Developers, and 2/3 IT Pros. Many people look at TechEd as primarily an IT Pro event, and developers love going to the PDC or other events (I'm a new big fan of the HDC - the Heartland Developer Conference).
Reason 3 - People leave earlyA large number of attendees just don't stick around for the last of the 5 days. So these events will be 4 day events instead.
Wanna' go to TechEd? Or, even just learn more about it. Check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspx
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