Ignite Trip Report–Atlanta GA, Sept 26-30

Last week was I was at the Ignite conference in Atlanta and I was responsible for running the Developer Tools track. Let me tell you it was a FUN and crazy week. Here’s a tip when you run a track (content or otherwise): Wear tennis shoes!

Highlights

1. The dev track general session with  Scott Hanselman drew over 1200 developers into the room, was live streamed with
   now over 16K views, and  generated a lot of buzz on Twitter
2. Our track scored highest of the conference! We have a lot of great speakers and content :-)
3. Our  booths location was fantastic and centered directly under the huge “Developer” section in the middle of the Microsoft Showcase, with a lot of foot traffic
4. Our developer audience made up roughly 10% of the 23K attendees representative of  our biggest fans of Microsoft developer tools, particularly Visual Studio & .NET

General session with Scott Hanselman

We had 15 jam packed demos and Scott was brilliant, hilarious and very entertaining while showing a whirlwind of practical demos across the Microsoft developer platform. It’s usually hard to please everyone with these overview sessions but he absolutely killed it. For the finale,
Open Live Writer was published to the Microsoft Store using Centennial Desktop App Converter.

You can watch the session here:  Review the Microsoft application platform for developers

Break out Sessions – all on-demand