The last three SEA (South East Asia) Tech.eds were in Malaysia (I was a speaker there, as well as the Aus Tech.Eds), but nothing this year. Brian is right - there simply isn't the money available to fund the type of Tech.Ed in SEA that Australia has. Other than some multinationals, there aren't companies with the cash to spend $1-2k/ticket
Cheers Ken From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 1 October 2009 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch Singapore is actually really a long ride from other very developed economies in the region. It's really kind of in the middle of nowhere. You're going to draw from all over _where there's money_ and a 7 hour plane ride is annoying to a lot of people. There have been TechEd Malaysia's and TechEd China's. Look at the admission ticket price on those versus say TechEd Australia. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> c - 312.731.3132 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch The last Tech.Ed in Singapore was in 2005. Cheers Ken From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 1 October 2009 5:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch Doesn't Singapore (the city) have a population higher than that of Australia (the continent) ??? (That was a joke - but it's likely about population density. Singapore has 5 million people, all by itself, and can easily draw from quite a distance. Australia has about 22 million and will likely only draw from itself.) ________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch TechEd Singapore? There hasn't been one here for 5 years... Cheers Ken From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Live Launch well.... no secrets here. various people (MVPs, MSFT regional directors, local tech evangelists, etc.) are invited to speak at various events. those that happen in/around major cities can draw MSFT Redmond team members (even TechEd Singapore had a couple of great guys from the Exchange team there, and they presented at several events surrounding that TechEd). but smaller cities have much less of a chance there and are often dependent on local resources. some local resources are superb; others... not so much. some local MSFT events are co-sponsored by MSFT and the local MSFT partners, as part of the local partner's benefits. those are the ones i generally recommend you stay away from ... unless they offer you something free that you really want. some partner's are great, but most of them that participate in MSFT events put their sales people out to present and shmooze, instead of their technical folks that most attendees want. all imho. ymmv. void in wisconsin. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
