I know, I didn’t leave much to the imagination with the blog title and as you may of guessed I’m going to be attending Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin, Texas this January!
I was ecstatic when I received the invitation and it didn’t take much convincing to get me to go! I’ve been a huge fan and supporter of the Tech Field Day format over the years, and not too many of them go by where I don’t catch a few session on the livestream. The fact that Austin is on average 30 degrees Celsius warmer than here in January sure does help too!
The event
Aside from the heat I’m definitely looking forward to being a part of VFD4. This will be the fourth installment of Virtualization Field Day and it takes place January 14th through the 16th in Austin, Texas. The Tech Field Day events bring vendors and bloggers/thought leaders together in a presentation/discussion style room to talk everything and anything about given products or solutions. I’ll point you to techfieldday.com to get a way better explanation about the layout of the events.
The Delegates
This will be my first time as a delegate and I’m feeling very humbled for having been selected. Honestly I get to sit alongside some of the brightest minds that I know. Thus far Amit Panchel (@AmitPanchal76), Amy Manley (@WyrdGirl), James Green (@JDGreen), Julian Wood (@Julian_Wood), Justin Warren (@JPWarren), and Marco Broeken (@MBroeken) have all been confirmed as delegates with more to be announced as time ticks on. Some of these people I’ve met before, some I know strictly from Twitter and others I haven’t met at all so I’m excited to catch up with some people as well as meet some new people.
The Sponsors
So far there have been 6 sponsors sign up for #VFD4 – Platform9, Scale Computing, Simplivity, Solarwinds, StorMagic and VMTurbo. Just as with the delegates some of these companies I know a lot about, some I know a little, and others I certainly need to read up on. Having seen many, and I mean many vendor presentations in my lifetime I have tremendous respect for those that sponsor and present at Tech Field Day. The sessions tend to be very technical, very interactive, and very informative – three traits that I believe make a presentation. I’m really looking forward to seeing my fellow Toronto VMUG Co-Leader and friend Eric Wright (@discoposse) sitting on the other side of the table 🙂
Be sure to follow along via Twitter by watching the #VFD4 hashtag leading up to and during the event. Also a livestream will be setup so you too can watch as it all goes down.
I’m so grateful to everyone for getting this opportunity – so thank you to my peers, the readers of this blog, Stephen Foskett and all the organizers of all the great Tech Field Days and the virtualization community in general – See you in Texas!
