In the exhibitors hall

Friday 5th Sept was the final day of TechEd and I spent most of the day manning the Portal Synergy stand with my co-director, Peter Ward. It was great to spend some time in the exhibition hall and it was a great opportunity to meet lots of people and chat about all things VSTS & Sharepoint. We were giving away a free XBox 360 to one lucky person who put their business card in the fish bowl. The lucky winner was a guy from the Sunshine state who managed to win not only our XBox but a 22″ LCD TV from one of the other vendors as well! I’m sure he will have fond memories of TechEd 2008. Here’s a photo of Peter and I at the stand.

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Delivering my ILL

Between 11:30am and 1:00pm I presented an Instructor Led Lab (ILL). This was the same ILL I presented at TechEd Developer in Orlando back in July so I didn’t need to do any prep work prior to delivering it. There were around 42 computers in the lab and we ended up having to turn about a dozen attendees away once we were full. The session went well and was the highest rating ILL in the Developer Tools and Languages track, the 4th highest ILL overall and the 2nd highest rating for speaker effectiveness. I think the good results came from the fact I finally relaxed and had a couple of good lab proctors.

Post TechEd Speaker Party

After TechEd wrapped up, Andrew Coates hosted a speaker party in his recently renovated home. It was great to be able to catch up with other speakers in a relaxed environment knowing there were no more talks to do the following day. A big thanks to Mr & Mrs Coatsie for organising the party.