Just got back to my hotel room from the Web Innovation Conference 2008, and despite being really tired, I am feeling quite happy since this was one of those rare conferences that I really enjoyed – both as a sponsor and as an attendee. The crowd was quite diverse and knowledgeable and I had [...]

A lot of people have been asking me on mail as well as on this blog why we are doing TechMela in just one city when traditionally we have done TechEd around the same timeframe in multiple cities. Well, here are the reasons: 1) We wanted to do a much bigger event this time by [...]

Today is May 14, 2007, and exactly a month later, Microsoft India would be kicking off its biggest event ever for Architects, Developers, IT Pros and Designers – TechMela. TechMela 2007 takes the content from four major events Microsoft India has been doing – TechEd, MEDC, IndiMix and ITPC – and adds even more content [...]

Today we kicked off the first module in what would be an year long series of modules on Windows Mobile. Each module consists of:   1) A Webcast giving an overview of the topic (90 minutes duration – 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm) 2) A session broadcast that explains in detail the topic itself (3 hours [...]

As promised, the presentations from TechEd India 2006 are available online. You can download them from http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2006/presentations.aspx.   There are some sessions for which the presentations are not online. These are either those where the presenters did not use a ppt at all (like my session on the Architecture track: Microsoft Platform: The Road Ahead), [...]

TechEd is over (phew!!) and the whole team is in a sack out mode. However, we haven’t forgotten that folks are still awaiting the ppts, videos and demos from TechEd. Stay tuned, they will be up soon!   cheers … Vineet    

TechED Pune got over yesterday evening on a strong note after a great start at Delhi on 5th. The universal feedback has been that this year’s TechEd is much better than last year’s, with deeper content, better speakers and better logistics. You know, it is not easy pulling off an event as large as TechEd [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Yes, TechEd India 2006 is here!!!   Last year’s TechEd was huge. We had honestly stretched ourselves and if you had asked us if we could make it bigger, we would have disagreed.  But this team has a habit of surprising itself. This year’s TechEd is bigger (6 cities), has deeper content (9 [...]

Yeah, you read that right. We did shrink the world this week. And in two ways too.   1. MEDC 2006 – The Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference – the definitive, one of its kind conference for the developer targeting the mobile and embedded market, was held this week at Bangalore. It was a rocking [...]

The ppts for the Web Platform Roadshow held in Feb are now available at http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/presentations.aspx#February_2006.    The feedback we got from this show was really great. Almost everybody appreciated all the sessions. The feedback ratings on my sessions was 7.7 / 9 on average, which is remarkably high. And guess what, we had about 2000 attendees for the [...]