Microsoft Convention Belgium

Today I went to the Microsoft Convention, in Brussels, Belgium.

Today I’m also very sure I’m a developer rather than a marketing guy. This was a purely marketing-based event, and it really wasn’t anything that fits me.

But alright, I took some pictures. First we have Bruno Segers with the Opening.

Right after this came Kevin Johnson.

Followed by Scott Woodgate.

He had a talk with Geert Verbeeck, Chief Architect of Sidmar.

In the afternoon there were some more talks by various companies, and about certain MS products.

I liked the talk about Microsoft CRM. It’s a really nice solution from what I’ve seen, very user friendly. Can’t tell anything about the implementation or developing for it, as I simply didn’t see it, marketing-only event, remember ;)

There was a hands-on session for SharePoint also, I liked this as well. SharePoint is nice, so nicely integrated, and so easy to use. Now I understand why so many people develop for it. Also had the chance to use a Pocket PC during this lab. And I’m convinced I’ll never buy one myself in their current state. I find them quite useless, but I’m not a business person, so I don’t need anything for my appointments.

Other than that, I don’t have much to tell, I won’t be going back for day 2, because I don’t have the money, especially not for marketing-only. I wanted to try it out once, to see what a marketing-only event was like. And I’ll stick to developer events from now on, on those I don’t have enough time to see anything that interests me, and especially not to do any hands-on labs, because I’ll miss a session then. But today I had plenty of time, and it’s true what they say: at a dev event, everyone’s on time, even early; at a marketing event, no one is.

Took a quick picture of myself as well ;)

And, I got a nice gadget as well, a clock! Here’s a pic with the clock along with the USB Flashlight from DevDays 2004: