Hi,
Just wondering about the two conferences in 2014 and whether the European Conference in Barcelona will be as good as the Microsoft Conference in Vegas? And what the main differences will be?
It will be my first time attending either Conference.
Many thanks
Mark.
SPC in Vegas is huge (last year 10k participants) and fun (many parties around).
Speaker wise it usually also has many unknown MS speakers with not so much speaking experience (and often repeating boring topics)
The sessions of the celebrity speakers are usually way too full, so you actually have to leave the session before earlier to be sure to get into the next one… no comment on that.
At least you can watch all the sessions right the week after the conference online.
Also SPC has a long year reputation that they don’t manage to get WiFi running 😉
SharePoint Evolutions in London (or ISC as it was previously called) is IMO the best conference so far content-wise.
Always very good speakers and content. Last year they had a whole storyline throughout two tracks for 3 days in a row, which meant bascially the ITPros build a farm based on requirements, which the dev track used for their solution they were building over the days. Great fun and a little different to the other conferences with the sessions which don’t have anything to do with each other.
Though I heard this year they didn’t do it that way anyore.
ESPC is ranked 3rd place in all the conferences I attended (and I attended many, both as participant and speaker). I like that it is going around different cities, many good sessions, but also many mediocre ones.
The speakers at ESPC are often more from Europe than the US (hence the European in the name 😉 )
Let’s see, maybe I have luck and get a speaking slot there too next year 😀
Anyway, in my opinion all of them are worth going there! 🙂
So it most likely it depends on the timing (SPC March, SPEvo April, ESPC May) the costs and of course your expectations!
