Having formally started inviting individual speakers for the ITJC last week we have been absolutely amazed at the response. What seemed as one of the major challenges for us upfront, has really turned out to be a nice surprise! The response has been fantastic and our speaker slots are filling up quickly, with presentations on enterprise frameworks, IDEs and tools. The speaker list will be posted up on the conference site once we start getting the topics and speaker bios finalized, at which point the marketing machine will really kick in from an attendees perspective.
Luan O’Carroll and I went out to the Cineworld Cinemas last night during the Microsoft Silverlight presentation, to take a look at the facilities from a conference standpoint, and it has really been a fantastic experience. The venue is great and I just know that we are going to put on a great event there. Nothing helps to get things in perspective like a 400 seat auditorium with cup holders on every seat 🙂 The venue is outstanding in that we can upgrade our facilities as the days require, switching cinemas to handle the popularity of each presentation.
Sometimes I have to pinch myself. What seemed like a pie in the sky project for the Dublin JUG a couple of months back when we started talking about it, is really coming in to fruition – thanks in no small part to the IrishDev.com guys who have been great at every step in the process, working tirelessly to get the logistics of the operation in place.
To quote a famous beer ad. “This is gonna be great!”