TechEd Developer kicks off next week in Orlando, the first time the US group has tried the European model of separate dev and IT pro weeks. I've grown to like the model in Europe a little better, because I think both attendees and speakers benefit from the greater focus within their specialized areas. The people who it hurts are obviously those who fall squarely into both camps, but at the US events, I have not run into many of those. The conference agenda is getting busy for folks who like to stay on top of Microsoft technologies (or who like to speak at these events), with MIX in the spring, PDC in the fall, and TechEd in the summer, and that's just the US centric Microsoft "general" conferences. I'm intentionally excluding the Office Developer Conference, international conferences, and those that are not directly put on by Microsoft, such as VS Live. Why am I going next week? In short, it's to give a session talking about advanced WF+WCF integration, but more importantly to escape the Redmond bubble and find out what's actually happening to real customers in the real world. Those interactions become more and more valuable as we work to build tools to help those customers build applications. A few of the sessions I'd be interested in as an attendee: SOA209 The Road to “Oslo”: The Microsoft Services and Modeling Platform Thursday, June 5 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, S220 A Speaker(s): David Chappell Microsoft’s
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