Gerd's Professional World

The Virtual Side

Gerd De Bruycker — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:57:00 GMT

Over the 2 weeks in November in Barcelona we will touch in total about 8.500 people. And still we want to extend our reach and provide our delegates with an enhanced online user experience. Therefore I am happy to write that “ The Virtual Side ” of both...(read more)

IT Forum SOLD OUT

Gerd De Bruycker — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:25:00 GMT

Last Friday at Midnight we have closed the IT Forum registration. We have reached our maximum capacity of 4.500 attendees. We are running a waitlist and if we have cancellations we will inform the people in the right sequence on our waitlist....(read more)

Tech Ed: IT Forum: Early Bird Numbers (SOLD OUT)

Gerd De Bruycker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:42:00 GMT

TE-DEV is wonderful but TE-ITF is doing superb. Including all the people that we have to allow we have reached our capacity of 4.000+ attendees. We are already well over that number. We will look into creative solutions to get more people in (mainly a...(read more)

Tech Ed: Developers Early Bird Numbers

Gerd De Bruycker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:36:00 GMT

What a day last Friday. The last day before we close our Early Bird offering (save €300) is always an exciting and stressful day: how many registrations will we get and how many last minute questions will we get. And you blew the whole thing. If we include...(read more)

Gifts

Gerd De Bruycker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:29:00 GMT

The closer we come, we need to look into evaluations gifts. And again we have been able to secure/buy high value prices. This year the overall conference feedback gift for 1 of the attendees of each event is a DELL Windows MEDIA CENTER PC. If that isn't...(read more)

Free and Reduced Tickets

Gerd De Bruycker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:03:00 GMT

Friday our early bird offer (save €300) ends and it seems to have triggered quite some people asking for a free or reduced ticket. For projects of this size we must follow strict guidelines and rules and surely in the ticket space. All rules and guidelines...(read more)

What would YOU do to get there?

Gerd De Bruycker — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:46:00 GMT

Here it is....(read more)

INETA at Tech Ed: Developers

Gerd De Bruycker — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:06:00 GMT

Great coverage and activities INETA is setting up for our developer event. Thanks Damir. Nice cooperation....(read more)

Selling out

Gerd De Bruycker — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:01:00 GMT

The registrations are ahead of last year's trend for Tech Ed: IT Forum. If you know that we sold out last year with more than 4.000 attendees ... you know what to do if you want to be there. We are 2 weeks away from early bird (September 29) and knowing...(read more)

Tech Ed Video available

Gerd De Bruycker — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:59:00 GMT

It has been 2 very busy weeks and in the meantime our Tech Ed video is online available ....(read more)

Microsoft GM Belgium-Luxemburg is leaving

Gerd De Bruycker — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:19:00 GMT

All over the news in Belgian IT landscape; Bruno Segers , the Belux GM is leaving Microsoft. The decision has been taken part ways....(read more)

Virtual Tech Ed

Gerd De Bruycker — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:51:00 GMT

As part of our efforts to reach as many people as possible with our events we are working on a virtual Tech Ed. This does not mean that we will publish all sessions on line. Not at all. Our objective is to provide the online community with short interviews,...(read more)

Channel 9

Gerd De Bruycker — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:45:00 GMT

Channel 9 , the famous developer website, wants to become less US centric and more international. They approached me (Tech Ed: Developers) and will start their expansion at Tech Ed: Developers in Barcelona. They will do interviews on site with attendees,...(read more)

Country Visits: Conclusion

Gerd De Bruycker — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:26:00 GMT

The last 2 weeks I have been visiting the people in the different Microsoft subsidiaries who are driving the local efforts for Tech Ed: Developers and Tech Ed: IT Forum . I was in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The...(read more)

Country Visit: Finland

Gerd De Bruycker — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:17:00 GMT

4th Scandinavian country in 4 days. I know now how expensive alcohol and taxis are over here :-). Almost complete silence in the Microsoft Office. They are having their annual company meeting to align and inform the business units about their Finnish...(read more)