Tomorrow I set off for a week in Seattle. The Microsoft MVP Global Summit, which occurs about every eighteen months, starts on Monday and I shall be joining many other UK MVPs for this geekfest. It's a hectic schedule which starts with coach pickups from the hotel at 7:30am each morning and finishes late in the evening, usually after some sort of socialising. Of course that's the official programme, the unofficial one carries on much later.
There will be about 2000 MVPs attending, out of the 3000 in existence, and some of the highlights will be:
- A keynote speech by Bill Gates, his final one to the MVPs
- Plenty of chance to see up and coming technologies, especially those associated with my field, XML
- The current situation with LINQ and its derivatives such as XLINQ
- A session with the XML development team
- Beer
I shall try to post about anything interesting as soon as I hear it.
