8/23/2023 0 Comments Echofon noise![]() I now have my German Rail Pass (5 days this time) and will join the Clue Train on Saturday, as a precursor to the Innovation Weekend. There’s lots more to share on what’s happening before and during TechEd. I had been aware of a discussion forum on that topic, though as I’m not a moderator there (yet) I have not spent much time viewing it. SAP Green IT Community is prepared for SAP TechEd 2010.Green IT is more than only Energy efficiency.Timo Stelzer informed me there is a new “blog category” for Green IT: I expect to bring in several other experts, once I’m sure of their schedules. As a moderator of the SCN discussion forum on Sustainability, I know there is a lot of hype, a lot of expectations, but maybe not a lot of substance yet. What am I going to cover in my 30 minutes? I’m going to try to jam in as much as possible about our experiences with virtualization, as well as more general commentary about the SAP Sustainability projects. I would recommend checking back, as speakers and other experts may find times in their schedule to set up another reservation. You can see that not many sessions are vacant. Here’s a view zoomed in on my grid session:Īnd here is one day’s worth of sessions for the 8 lounges in Berlin. I don’t have the same audience as Thomas Jung, but I don’t want to compete with their noise level either. I will say that the reservation tool for these times was awesome, showing all the lounges at one time, and who else is already booked. It was a bit tricky to find a time to do this when I didn’t also want to be somewhere else. When the lights go out, is your data center still humming? I have reserved an Expert Lounge session: The spreadsheet maintains the separations among education sessions / pod sessions and expert lounge, and sorting them together by time is required in order to make useful decisions about “where am I now” and “where am I next?” I will say it functions better than the version that was running during the ASUG Annual Conference / Sapphire Now, which did not download to Excel at all, but this one still needs a tweak.Įxcel does not recognize the date fields at all, so sorting puts Wednesday at the end, and the flags to show “overlap” confuse the fact that the time fields are what they are. On the minus side, they still are somewhat distinct, a bit tricky to search through, and show up separate on the reports. On the plus side, the Expert Lounge sessions are better integrated than in the past. Many, though not all, speakers have a thumbnail photo on one of the search pages (like: Now for the agenda tool bad news. I typically look first for speakers that I want to meet, or have met and know will share something useful to me(e.g., Dieter Krieger, Timo Stelzer, Irene Hopf). I’ll post my complete agenda, in case anyone is interested, after one or two more passes through the schedule. I had to abandon one session that I really wanted to attend (ALM105 – Why Sustainability is IT’s Next Big Thing) to get a hands-on session (ALM276 – How to Find Waste in Custom Code) that I also really wanted to attend. And then there are the time conflicts to contend with. There are just so many other things going on, as well as people to meet, to sit still for that long. Unless a presentation is particularly compelling, I’ve learned to avoid the 4 hour classes. When I was able to get into the system, I had no problem reserving the sessions I wanted – the main problem was trying to choose among all of the possibilities. At least once I’ve gotten a complimentary pass that did not allow hand-on session registration without extra cost, or negotiating. Getting the admission badge of a specific color (Speaker, Vendor, etc.) is important in that not all of them allow access to all events. And, to make it more challenging, I had heard from a fellow SAP Mentor that there may be issues with registration. The TechEd EMEA curtain rose extra early (3 AM for me I think), so I was not the very first person in line. I know, however, that one does need to get started close to the opening bell for many, if not all, of the hands-on sessions to get the pass. I will admit (pun intended) that my dreams are not always the same as many others, and I’m also fortunate to be good friends with Tom, Eddie, and Rich, so when I’m trying to build my agenda getting up close and personal with the ABAP masters is not a requirement. Shock: thomas_jung ewH RichHeilman your early 4 hour hands on is full already 2:03 PM Sep 14th via Echofon ![]() If you’re a veteran of SAP TechEd conferences, you know that the above icon can be a sign of a hard fought victory to stake your place in a virtual line for the session “of your dreams.”
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