Your Guide to VMworld 2012: Keynotes, Events and Live Streams
VMworld 2012 will be held on August 26-30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, so here are a few resources for attendees and online viewers who plan on making the most of VMware’s annual event.
The full list of sessions and exhibitors can be found here and here. There are a few keynotes in particular to watch out for, namely the CEO Roundable. It will be held on the 27th at 4 PM and will beeco-hosted by current CEO Paul Maritz and incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger. EMC’s Joe Tucci, Michael Dell, and NetApp’s Tom Georgens will participate, and the theme of the discussion will be “The Innovation Paradox”.
Another keynote worth an entry in your schedule is Inside the Hadoop machine, a technical overview of the analytics engine by VMware app infastrcature CTO, Richard McDougall, colleague Jeff Buell and HortonWorks’ Sanjay Radia. Online viewers can tune into these sessions by filling out this form.
For those in it for the new tech, here’s the Solutions Exchange schedule:
Sunday, August 26 4:00pm – 7:00pmMonday
August 27 10:30am – 6:00pmTuesday
August 28 10:30am – 6:00pmWednesday
August 29 10:00am – 5:00pm
#VMworld on Twitter will also be a good place to catch product announcements, and VMware’s own page will also be buzzing will activity regularly when the company starts unveiling the hoard of updates it saved up for the conference.
The last link VMworld 2012 attendees should bookmark is the schedule for the mini events at the conference. It includes the timetable for the over two dozen recreational gatherings VMware’s organizers came up with, including a Bon Jovi concert.
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