This is my personal account of activities from the SharePoint Conference 2014.
PRE-EVENT (On my #Surface)
Excited for the event, I start getting my itinerary ready off the official SharePoint Conference guide from their website and I’m overwhelmed with the choices. 60 page prints later and still no idea on which sessions to attend. Several hours later… I finally manage to narrow down my selections and highlight the sessions out of my 60 pages that were of interest to me. Keen to find out who was going from Microsoft UK and was disappointed to find that no one I knew was going! :( However to cheer myself up and keen to get my diary sorted I call to find out when you get to access your own timetable and was notified that I would have access the next day via email. I log in the next day to find a great looking site, but to my disbelief the session names don’t align to the new timetable I had just accessed! Back to the start I went and followed the new timetable to create my hectic diary while in Vegas. See below.
As you can see, a busy week on my hands!
DAY 1
9-10 hours later I arrive at ‘The Venetian hotel’ reception to book into my room where the receptionist tells me that I’m booked into only a standard room and would I like to be upgraded to an executive room? To which I reply what’s the difference, this is America surely the room is big enough?! So I decided to see what a Executive room consists of. (See below)
Executive room? Is this not it?! And it didn’t stop there, just look at the menu. Apart from my room being more than adequate, the hotel restaurant choice was something else, all I wanted was a simple burger and chips and this is what I had at my disposal…
After a good nights sleep I was faced with the long walk to breakfast it taking me 20 minutes to get to the buffet table in the same hotel! With an extra 5 minutes to find a table, I had burnt off breakfast in calories. That being said it was nice to have food included at the SharePoint conference but unfortunately due to my simple requirements dieting was preferable. Anyway enough about my stay and the facilities, I will get to the important stuff – The Conference itself!
Day session on a Sunday! – Drumbeat 
Unfortunately there is not a lot I can say about this due to Microsoft Partnership confidentiality, however what I will say is that it was great to meet some partners that had the same issues as me – I’m not alone! :)
STAY TUNED AND FOLLOW THIS BLOG FOR THE NEXT RELEASE OF MY SHAREPOINT CONFERENCE 2014: DAY 2 – CUING FOR CLINTON….
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