posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:37 AM
by
davidboschmans
TechEd Europe 2006: moved and reformatted
The official announcement has been made today: To better serve the developer and IT professional communities, Microsoft is evolving its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) technical events – Tech·Ed Europe and Microsoft IT Forum. Have a look at the announcement here.
“Microsoft Tech Ed 2006: Developers” will be a deep-dive technical event addressing the specific requirements of developers while “Microsoft Tech Ed 2006: IT Forum” will be replacing IT Forum but will retain its focus on IT professionals and their distinctive needs.
The two conferences will for the first time run back-to-back in November 2006, creating Microsoft’s premier technical education platform in the region and a central feature of the IT industry calendar.
"Tech Ed 2006: Developers":
- is a 100% developer focused event. Anyone interested in building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for the professional market should attend this event. The content will be a deep dive into the technology.
- We will also offer some sessions that are more in the IT infrastructure space and this specifically for people in mixed job functions. This will be IT infrastructure content that is relevant for developers.
- There will be specific content for software architects.
"Tech Ed 2006: IT Forum":
- The slightly re-branded IT Forum is the event for IT Professionals focusing on planning, deploying and managing the secure connected enterprise.
- It is the conference for IT administrators, including system, network, database, messaging, web, applications, file/storage, security, desktop configuration, etc.
- We will also offer some sessions that are more in the software development space and this specifically for people in mixed job functions. This will be development content (like scripting) that is relevant for system administrators.
- In addition there will be specific content for infrastructure architects.
Check also out Hans Verbeeck's blog post on this topic. Hans is overall technical content owner for Tech Ed 2006.