5 August 2004
Tech.Ed Day 0 wrap-up (Tue 3 Aug 2004)
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: Conferences; Microsoft .
Day zero (registration day) of my first Tech.Ed was pretty cool. After the 3hr 53min drive from Sydney, which was recorded directly onto the hard-drive of my Toshiba M200 TabletPC thanx to my $40 USB camera (stay tuned for CarCam v3.0)…Marco, Karl and myself checked into our hotels and then wandered down to the Canberra Conference Centre to register, grab our attendee badges and free Tech.Ed backpacks and to check out the exhibtion hall.
After a quick look at the exhibitors and a visit to my hotel room to freshen up, it was of to the MapPoint Dinner (photos) at the Hyatt Hotel that i was invited to. The MapPoint dinner was put on by Steve Lombardi (from the Redmond Microsoft MapPoint team) and it was great to finally meet him. I was meant to catch up with Steve on my trip to the Redmond campus in February but missed him by a couple of days…nealry six months later, and a number of emails, we finally catch up :) Frank Arrigo and Dr Neil Roodyn were there and it was great to catch up with them again in person and also to have the opportunity to meet up with a lot of people who are really into MapPoint, mapping technology and its uses.
A few of the people i met at the MapPoint dinner (total of around 20 people…give or take) included: Chris and James from multimap.com, Laurie from MapData Sciences, David from Dejai, Steve from Connected Innovation (he’s also a Microsoft Regional Director) and a heap of other Microsoft and non-Microsoft people.
After the dinner wound up, a few of us kicked on at the Canberra Casino (drinking and not betting for me) and caught up with Marco and Karl. The night ended at around 2am on Wednesday morning….
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