Day1 at Tech-ED India 2011

 

I didn’t think that I will attend Tech-Ed this year as I have a very busy schedule. All of my plans were attending Global Summit this year. But some how, the Global Summit one canceled and got some time to attend Tech-Ed. My flight started from Hyderabad at 8:30 AM on 23rd March 2011, As usual I started late at home, but caught the flight on time. Reached Hotel Lalit Ashok at 10:30 AM while the key note is going on, Got registered , this time there is no problem in registration as we have separate counter for Speakers and MVPs. The first session was an un-conference . There we networked with several fellow MVPs and some of my close friends. After that I attended the session on ASP.NET MVC3. Lots of stuff to learn in MVC3 compared to MVC2. I am going to blog about that as a separate blog post soon.

MVPs at the un conference. Will post you more pictures once I upload all of them.

Today I am pleased to meet PluralSight CEO Aaron Skonnard. I am supposed to meet Aaron in Hyderabad and that didn’t happened as I was not in the city at that time.  Pluralsight Trainings are excellent, Knowledge sharing and once you start learning using those trainings, you will automatically get addicted. Its worth subscribing to their trainings.

We have a privilege to meet distinguished engineer Yousef Khalidi RD Mgmt , WindowsAzure from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. This is a direct roundtable with the person who is technically very very strong. We are very much pleased the way Yousef  answer all of our questions and provided solutions to the problems. Its a very productive and one of the best roundtables that I can say.

MVPs with Yousef Khalidi Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure

My Question to Yousef Khaladi was, What is azure side enhancements in Interoperability side , Integration with Java or any other language.  The answer was Initially they were concentrating on one technology ,now they are stabilized so soon we can expect toolkit to play with Java and Azure using the API.

One of the feature request that came in the conference was having client side API using Azure, Azure with Siliverlight integration would definitely benefit the developers.

I had the opportunity to meet VSTS 2010 product team from Microsoft IDC. Had Demos and Lot of Q&A with them. If you get some time try to meet the Azure team or VSTS team they have pretty cool stuff to show case.

Then we had Community Talk and plan for the Web Developers day, Windows Azure Day for MUGH in the evening that ends my Day1 at teched. I will be blogging more on tomorrow as I am feeling a bit tired and going to sleep. So stay Tuned.

I still have the last year memories for Tech-Ed meeting Soma and having lunch with him. You can still read the above link to know what happened in Teched 2010

TECH-ED India 2010

Tech-ED India 2010 is the awesome,enthralling experience meeting all of the industry experts and at the same time updating the technology. “TechED 2010 is the most awaited technology conclave in India for developers, IT professionals and technology/business decision makers and will bring together over 50,000of the best technical minds from nearly 100 towns and cities in the country.”

I attended TechED-India 2010, Bangalore from April 12th to April 14th At Lalit Ashok Bangalore.I was selected as speaker at Community Track to present at TECH-ED India hence I got free entry to Tech-ED. This will be my first presentation at Tech-ED India. I was literally working day and night these days to fulfill my personal and professional commitments. Now I have got some-time now to blog about the entire event, so that I can share my experience as well.


Tech'ed 2010 Panelists

I felt that Hotel Lalit is too costly Rs 8000 per day + taxes, so I stayed at Amar-Comforts as their fares are reasonable enough and very close to venue and I get free access to WIFI. Thanks to Ashwin Kini Regional Chairman - APAC, GITCA (Global Board) for making my accommodation smooth even though I confirmed about my arrival in the last minute. I reached the hotel on Sunday and all set to attend the conference. On 12th of April I was at the venue on time, as we have separate counter for Speakers the registration process went well. I met all of my MVP friends over there. We have got first 2 rows reserved for us speakers, so entry was smooth for us.

Hima Vejella Presenting at Tech'ED 2010

I am extremely delighted by Soma’s Key note on the very first day, launching VS2010 RTM officially from April 12th and Silverlight4. As I have explored on VS2010, I am impressed with the demo how VS2010 supports Windows 7 and to develop windows 7 applications.
There are exhibitor stalls where they are conducting quizzes, and code contests and giving goodies for the winners. We can visit them when we get time. I participated in some of them and won some gifts in Mind Tree and Accenture, Telerik Stalls.
MVPs are exclusively invited for lunch with Somasegar, Senior Vice Presedent Microsoft, It is my pleasure to sit beside him and have lunch during TECH-ED.I met Soma very first time at Redmond Microsoft Campus,we were memorising those incidents. He was so humble as ususal and answered all my questions.

During lunch with Soma  :Hima Vejella,Somasegar Sr.Vice President Dev division , Abhishek Baxi, Mannan

The very first day I had to speak on session
Panel Discussion: Harness the power of Web – SEO and Technical Blogging
Date: April 12, 2010 Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
The session with lots of tricks and tips about SEO and Technical Blogging from various Industry Technical Blogging Experts.

The SEO Web Panel at Tech'ed 2010

The session concentrated on

Learn tips to how to maximize your website?

How to get relevant traffic? What are the Things to avoid get traffic to your site.

Does back-linking works etc?


Hima Vejella at Speakar Lounge

We got lot of questions and the panel discussion was awesome and the discussion really went well and I enjoyed each and every moment of it. Infact as it was the last session, it got extended till one Hour.



After the session we have spoke for VS2010 Video for Global Website. Then Abhishek asked us to speak in our regional languages, I spoke in my mother-tongue Telugu about Tech-ED. I will share the video once it is uploaded in global website. Whereas all the other speakers spoke in Marati, Gujarathi, Konkini, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi. We had exclusive discussion on community and influencing community and how to get them updated on the technology. We had community meet for all the UG Leads with Sanjay Shetty(Regional Director, Microsoft for Mumbai) before the speaker dinner. This was a productive discussion.

Hima Vejella with Sajay Shetty (INETA, APAC Chairman)at Community Chalk Talk

All the speakers are invited for the dinner. It was very special dinner where I had chat with Cloud Computing expert Jonny he likes to be called(Janaki Ram) a famous speaker in the industry.
After the Day 2 keynote we were rushing towards sessions. Apart from networking with all immense experts from Microsoft and My MVP Friends, I attended the sessions on security, F#, SharePoint 2010, MVC in VS2010, .NET4 Core features.
I was accidentally interviewed by Pandu on 13th of April which broad-caste live at tech-ED India site.If you would have watched Tech-ED India live broadcasting you might have watched my video live..As I need to catch my flight, I left the venue at 4:30 PM and I missed MVC session. I met Vinod Unny, Microsoft Regional Director for Asia Pacific at this tech-ED conference. I felt that I miss the event.


Hima Vejella & Pinal Kumar Dave at the Speaker Lounge
I missed the dinner parties with Infragistics and Telerik teams that were given to MVPs on 13th and 14th of April.
I have got VS2010 Resource KIT along with hands on lab, that in turn help me to explore more on the technology.
I can say that this is superb event and I felt that each and every minute in the event is worth.

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Day1 @ Tech-ED Hyderabad at HICC

Yesterday I attended Microsoft Tech Ed India 2009 at HICC.
It has started with a keynote speech delivered by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft .
I missed the key note and first 2 sessions on .net Framework 4.0 and best practices. Heard that SteveB talked about the economy and the recission. I could attend ASP.net Dynamic’s session by Harish and IIS 7.5 and Windows server 2008. Both of them are good. I will be blogging about these things in detail. I met fellow MVPs, OLD MVPs and MVPs from other states at community zone. Those who attended can write any number of free certifications during these 3 days at the NIIT test center. There was a contest at Community zone, hunting for community leader. Those who participated got cool prizes, goodies, T-shirts etc. It’s all fun and enjoying beside learning technically at Tech-ED. Let’s enjoy technically tomorrow too... :)

Updating soon with more detials..

Tech Ed- INDIA in Hyderabad.

TECH-ED India this year is going to happen from May 13-15 in Hyderabad.

High lights
1. First time in India Steve Ballmer (CEO, Microsoft) will deliver a keynote and a number of Industry luminaries to address the crowd on other two days
2.10 parallel focused tracks on Web Development, Cloud Services, SOA, RIA, BI, Tools development, App Development, UC, Virtualization, Windows Server, Windows 7, Infrastructure Management, Database Administration and many more. More than 3 days of hardcore Technical Content which you might not get via Live search.
3. Tracks dedicated for Senior Architects separately and get exclusive time with the Patterns and Practices Teams.
4. Over 110+ in-depth technical sessions for Developers + IT Professional and many more chalk talks as side activities.
5. New to technology? Get access to MS technologies through the day on all days of the conference.
6. Get a chance to meet all your local experts from MVPs, Company CEO, Microsoft Technology Experts and your peers thorough-out the conference. Have on-spot Community Chalk talks from experts present at the Community booths.
7. Get Certified on ANY MS certification for free at our even right through the day and night.
8. Focused networking opportunities and after-hours fun events and day long interaction window with the Microsoft Product teams from India Development Center (MSIDC).
9. Expo hall with top MS partner vendor solutions and services.
10. Special prizes and giveaways, only for conference attendees. Attend, answer a question or be interactive and get more.
11. Get full-Demo ONLY session for an hour on each of the days.
12. Before Early bird registration ends - Register today and block your seat.

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